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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>

www.beatmagic.biz
 

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?

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I have been a Fine Arts teacher for Futures Academy for 6 years- since August 2015.
At Futures Academy I teach:

  • Music Appreciation

  • Art Appreciation

  • Painting

  • Drawing

  • Cultural Geography

  • Digital Photography

  • AP Drawing and Design

  • World History

  • Mythology

  • 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:

  • Graphic Design

  • Storyboard

  • Music Video Productions

  • 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

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