I am totally blind and have been since 8. Before then I didn’t have that much vision to speak of.

I took an actual art class in middle school a visual one.

My markers and crayons were all labeled I just new where the color paint was where. I actually tried my hand at water color at home because I could. Probably was a really lousy drawing and wasn’t any good. All art pieces were. Embossed for me. So I could feel them.I had to color in the embossed sheets with the lines or try best effort.

At one point I did do a project out of clay I think it was a flower but forgot what it was, it was big.

We also had to pick a final project or a project way in the middle or end to draw. I picked a grindylow. Don’t sue me hahaha! I was obsessed with the HP books at the time. And I think they had something to do with one of the characters. Haha! Anyway.

It ended up to be a pretty complex picture. They embossed it for me but I managed to copy and draw it or tried my best at it.

A lot of other things like color theory and color wheel was pure memorization. Was it the best use of time. Probably not.

Was it fun? Sure. Did I regret it, no. It was an interesting experience if you have the right people to help with it. I was in a decent district not the best but not the worse.

My school offered a ceramics class, so I took that, and got to make models out of clay

My art teacher in high school was a gem. I took three years of 3D design after our mandatory exploratory art classes were done. The class only had two real years, but she was game to find me things to do my senior year to challenge me (aka make my life living hell lol). The one time, she made me make a 3 foot tall cake out of plaster and decorate it. Another time, it was a sculpture made out of computer keys. I epoxied my fingers together more times than I'd like to admit with that one. I did a lot of pottery and modeling with oven baked clay. Mugs, plates, candle holders, vases, a birdhouse and some other stuff. I did a few origami projects and did some paper crafting stuff as well. One of my favorites was making a yarn knot sculpture. I couldn't see the super thin yarn, so she got me this yarn wrapped paper string that was pretty thick for me to use. It was all looping different strings together until it all pulled together to form an abstract shape.

I took a painting class in college to fulfill my fine arts requirement. My professor was also great. She helped me with colors when I needed it and let me do what I needed to do. The one time I tried to paint a sunset and clouds for a sky study. She told me I had a great abstract representation of clouds even though I was trying for realism. That one gave me a really good laugh.

Our art teacher was really chill, so while she spent a couple minutes explaining theory at the start of each lesson, we were only given very loose requirements to follow afterwards. It was easy enough to participate by making artworks with various materials the teacher had (she had whole boxes of differently-textured papers, fabrics, sandpaper, foil, etc.) I remember one fluffy plush kitten playing with a tassel even won a contest sometime, and there were a few other artworks that did.

I also did plenty of clay moddeling, of course. And some more unusual things, like making a picture with layering papers of different colours and textures and exposing each through holes made with a paper puncher, pounding nails into a brick and making scenes with strings connected between them ... I think one of my favourite lessons was the one when all of us had to make a small paper chair, and I managed to find just the right bottlecap combination to make mine spin like an office chair.

Wow, now that I think about it, our teacher really had a lot of amazing ideas. Many others would've given up or just said "here, have some clay, do something I guess", but she constantly challanged both herself and me, and even when some of the ideas seemed less than fun they ended up working really well.

I think I might still have the weird clay mug I made somewhere, and the wax rooster. It's a shame that I threw so many of these silly things away before I realised just how valueable they could be.

I had a lot of vision compared to my none now lol. I could see colors and stuff, but they would adapt it with puffy paint and sparkly paint so I could feel it. I made a self-portrait once and I put ribbon as my hair instead of painting it, and I put sparkles for my eyes. I loved the clay units and the crochet units the most, though, because they were mainly do by feel instead of requiring vision.

I didn't really have art in primary school, and always struggled with crafts. I struggled with it in high school - tried drawing, but can't draw for shit - and I loved photography when I could see. Art from years 7-11 were a bludge class, I didn't care. After my Year 12 art teacher told me I couldn't draw and failing my art projects, we finally figured out what worked. She would get a photo I took on a laminated sheet and put it under a projector, and I would paint the picture in funky colours. For example, I've got a picture of one of my cats who is purple and the background is green.

I’m lucky enough to have a really good relationship with my art teacher. She used to teach at the middle school, but when I graduated was transferred to the high school.

We spent a lot of time playing around and just sort of figuring out what does and doesn’t work for me. After awhile it just got to the point where I could work relatively independently.

I think it helps though that I already had an interest in making art. I just needed someone who was willing to help to figure out what I needed to make it doable. Things differ by medium but honestly stuff eventually works out.

My elementary school teacher just kinda ignored that I was blind though. She really only taught through video I also could see so it was a time.

In elementary school wikki stix were used to outline pictures for me to colour or draw in. In middle and high school we got more creative. One time I made necklaces and earrings, another time I attempted to knit a scarf (which never came together haha), and in my final year of mandatory visual art class we made self-portraits and I coloured it in using tactile stickers with various shapes and braille letters on them. In hindsight visual art wasn’t too bad, but I’m happy I don’t have to do it anymore. There are many other things I’d rather spend my time doing.

The only thing I remember about elementary school, is that we had an "artist in residence" come and teach us to make these clay pots. She sat right with me, and showed me how to make mine by touch.
In middle school, I also did clay, and weaving. I enjoyed both things!! I did clay in high school as well. I took private ballet lessons for 3 years then too.

I'm almost completely blind, and I went back to school to finish a couple degrees in photography. I can see some shapes and color, so I focused my degree program on composition and relied on my camera to do the rest. I believe in embracing what you have, and do your best with it. I guess I'm doing ok I teach my method all the time to those who are fully sighted and my work has been shown all over the place lol.

When I was in drawing class, I focused on the shapes I could see and the values of light and dark, this is where I learned to see the light on my subject, which helped me with my photography.

Didn't really have much art. I absolutely hate painting and drawing. It just doesn't make any sense to me, even when it's made tactile I struggle a lot to understand the pictures.
However, I did have some good experiences with art as well, namely some modelling classes where we used clay.
I don't take art anymore, since I'm more interested in computers, but there are definitely accessible art classes to be found.
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I have always enjoyed crafty things and when teachers understood that, they would see what worked. One art teacher made pictures with a hot glue gun and I would colour them in with crayons. Another one of course did the whole clay and ceramics thing and I can still make several small models of animals. Dolphins, frogs and birds work best.

I mostly did what I could but whenever I paint I paint what I see instead of trying to Imitate or “see” what others can see.

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