Happy Thanksgiving!

Wishing all my Blogging Friends

A Very Happy Thanksgiving !
Hugs,
Mary

Happy Days its Friday!

Hello my friends!
My seniors have all made their art choices and have begun work on their projects!
As I said before the themes always strike me as being depressing. Let me clarify...
These are the actual themes of these short stories.  maybe something is lost in the translation but..
I am hunting down more short stories for next year.  At least I can then suggest some additions to the current reading list.
More on them in a week or so:O)
My art classes and art club have been working on a special Christmas surprise for our gallery!!
Each class chose a theme based on a Christmas song. Then they have been busily creating ornaments

to dress up their tree. We have a Wonderful "Grinch" tree and a Frosty the Snowman tree and several others. So this..


will soon be turned into a Winter Wonderland!

Have a wonderful Weekend!!
Hugs,
Mary

That time of year again!

 Hello my friends!
yes it is that time of year once again!
Oh, no!!  Teehee I wasn't thinking of Thanksgiving (not just yet anyways)
Time for the "Senior Projects" to begin!!!!
If you follow my blog you know already that every autumn I begin my mentoring of
seniors here at school. The entire senior student body must read a story by a "world author".
After reading a story they then come up with a central theme of the story and then create a project and write a thesis on the story its them and an art that illustrates the theme.
Whew... that was a run on sentence now wasn't it???!
Thankfully I have nothing to do with the written english portion...(As you can tell spelling and grammar are not my best talents)
The students then choose an art form such as
Music
Theater
 Dance
or
Visual Arts
Thats where my mentoring comes in...

I will help them create an original art piece that illustrates the given theme.
Will it be  a digital photography piece, clay sculpture, a pen and ink illustration or a watercolor painting...
Maybe an altered book or even an installation art!
Who knows but there are oodles and oodles of options!

Just now though as I was going over my students various themes...I am as always
amazed at the depressing themes!!!
Want to hear a few?
 •Obsession with death
Loneliness
Suffering
The Negative Effects of Secrecy
The Incompetence of Human Memory
Regret
Duty  (okay thats not so bad)
Family Devotion (Hey maybe these are getting better!)

Effects of Neglect

Unrequited Love

No... I was wrong

 they are depressing

Any ways that is just a few of the themes.

Now on to making art!

Have a great Monday all!

See you soon!

Mary

It's beginning to look a lot like? ...Halloween

My front yard

Greetings my friends!

Quite a few snowy days we have had up here!!

Seems like old news now.

October 27 We had a good bit of snow fall here!

 Grumble... grumble...

 was heard from every corner

of our little town...( okay maybe it was just me)

 little did we know that a much worse storm would hit over the next weekend!

And HIT It did!

 We were lucky to only be out of electricity and heat from 10 pm Sat until 8PM Sunday.

Many people are still without it and may be so until at least Thursday!

School has been cancelled for two days now. I have been making the very best of that!

Getting lots of house work done, plus starting on my Christmas lists too!

So, how is your week going?

See you later

Hugs, Mair