Collage Revisited

After having "Print Making Week", I realized that my students struggled with collage when we were creating our collagraph prints.  We revisited collage through this collaborative projected "lifted" from Shine Brite  ( shine brite zamorano ..thanks Don!).

Cheekwood Harvest Scarecrow

 This is the 6th year I've participated in the scarecrows at Cheekwood.  The theme this year was Story Book Characters.  I LOVED THIS THEME SO MUCH!  It was hard to choose.  Even though I moved to middle, I have crates and crates of kids books.  I can't part with them.  

I chose The Pout Pout Fish (of course!).  It didn't turn out exactly like I was imagining, but it is fun & recognizable. I hope all the visitors get a smile from this funny fish.

Here are are all the scarecrows I've created over the years!!

Moved to Middle!

Who would have "thunk" it!?! Mr. E moves to middle. 

Though I loved my related arts team at my new school last year....there were other situations that quickly let me know I would be moving again at the end of the year. (When you are in a large district...it is much easier to move.)   The move to middle or high was something that had been suggested for several years to help me reach future goals.  The middle school I moved to is known for amazing admin. (It's true!) 

The room was a good bit of work.  If you have followed me for some time...you know I'm very organized and I like things to be a certain way! This is not a slight on the last art teacher...it is an acknowledgement that I'm very picky! ha  ha So here are the pics of my new space.  It is a great size room, has a ton of cabinets. a decent storage closet, and a kiln room.

District Art Camp '26

I am usually a "back up" for our district summer art camps. I can do them, but with three kids at home I don't want to commit to it every summer.  Well, this was a summer they needed me (Summer art camp was POPULAR this year!!!).  I used the theme from my teacher workshops and used the camp to test the projects out on REAL KIDS!!! ha ha  It went well, but by week's end the kids did not want to do another cactus! Normally this would have been over a 9 weeks...not in one week.  So I get it!