ARTISTS AT WORK
ABOUT YOUR TEACHER Fontain Riddle



RANDOM FACTS ABOUT FONTAIN
I was born in Washington DC.
I lived and worked as an artist in San Francisco, CA. Now I am living in Southern CA working as a Fine Arts teacher for Futures Academy.
I love to paint nature and I am working my way up to doing larger paintings soon. My favorite art style is surrealism. I have been a pixel painter for years with animation companies, but I am happy to get my hands dirty again. This comes natural to me because I grew up with five rough and tumble brothers. We lived on a farm for a three years in Pennsylvania.
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I write, record and perform music with my husband Farhan Khan aka Flash Sitar. We play our music for Indian weddings and events as a family profession.
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We have a lot of fun going on hikes and goofing around with our teenager Karim who is also a musician.
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I have a large collection of hats and umbrellas.
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I have worked in Malaysia and Singapore for about a year.
This was a wonderful time and I have many interesting stories to tell.
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For a long time I was a live performer with a musical gypsy circus called the Magique Bazaar. Once per month we do an internet performance.
http://www.magictimeproductions.com/
More links
If you want to know more about my musical adventures your can go to
www.beatmagic.org
If you want to see more of my artwork you can go to>
If you scroll all the way down to the bottom of this page, you will see an illustration project I am working on at for a client.
I have included rough sketches and incremental steps in creating this mythology character series so that you, as art students, can see my process.
What do I teach?

I have been a Fine Arts teacher for Futures Academy for 6 years- since August 2015.
At Futures Academy I teach:
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Music Appreciation
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Art Appreciation
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Painting
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Drawing
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Cultural Geography
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Digital Photography
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AP Drawing and Design
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World History
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Mythology
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Music Seminar
EDUCATION


Before teaching at Futures Academy I taught
Art and Design for 6 years at Cogswell Polytechnical College (aka COGSWELL UNIVERSITY OF SILICON VALLEY- USV)
At USV I taught:
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Graphic Design
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Storyboard
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Music Video Productions
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Creative Content Development
I AA in CGI at Cogswell before becoming a teacher there.
San Jose, California
I earned my BFA at
Ringling College of Art and Design
Sarasota, Florida
ARTIST at WORK
Mythology Series- Hekate and her Guardians
I have included rough sketches and incremental steps in creating this mythology character series so that you, as art students, can see my process
"Pyrophoros" (Fire-Bearer)
This painting of the Goddess Hekate was commissioned by a student of Jason Miller's "Sorcery of Hekate" Cycle 10 in 2020. Hekate has guardians and a few of these characters are featured below.
Maite Franzmann, patron
Hekate- Goddess of Magic and Light









Abaek- Guardian of Hekate






Phyros, Guardian of Hekate




