For many, art is a daunting activity. However, art, the subject to which many people respond to in a wince or shudder, is what Coppell High School art teacher Michelle Hauske deems her field of expertise.

Hauske has garnered a thorough knowledge of art through her work in both education and museums. She enjoys portraying fluidity in her brushstrokes as a painter and creates in her own style that renders subjects with detail and sacrifices some realism for texture and organicness seldom expressed by inexperienced artists.

Watch The Sidekick staff videographer Shrayes Gunna capture Hauske as she walks through the process of sketching a figure for everyone from beginners to experts like herself. Her experience has cultivated a realization that the steps most people take to draw people by sketching an outline and then moving to details often produces inorganic creations and a difficult drawing experience. Hauske, instead, begins by finding out the placement of both the head and spine to act as the foundation, which she crafts the rest of the body around. 

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