A Sunny Monday!

Hello there my sweet friends!!
It is a beautiful spring morning here in New England.
So many Mondays in January, February and March 
were dark and gloomy snowy days.  This makes today a real treat!
I always say I will cherish every day in the month of April.

The sun was coming in and lit up my fern I have in the gallery

There are so many pretty shades of green

In my last post I mentioned doing a still life of Jacks and marbles

Here are some of my students work

Having fun with black and white tones

All for today!

Have a great one!!

A day in the life of an art teacher!

Hi there my sweet friends!
I come in early every morning so as to get a good jump on my day.

First ...to set up a still life for my Drawing and Painting class.

They will be working with colored pencils on this study 

of "Childs Play".

I want to try this still life in my watercolors.

Next prepare handouts for students to read on Georgia O'Keefe.

We have a film on her life we will finish watching first .

My Museum Art Class will be then taking photographs of a flower and magnify it (zoom into it) and paint what

 they see in pastels and watercolors.

Meanwhile I see that the 3D class

sculptures are drying and will be ready to put on the finishing touches soon!

And now just writing this small post I have run out of time and need to get busy teaching!

Thank you for stopping by!

Come back again soon and remember I love your comments!!!

Valentines Day

May you all have a Wonderful Valentines Day!!

Spice it up a bit!

Snow, snow, and more snow!!

We need something to liven the place up a bit so…

I borrowed this beautiful dress from the Spanish classroom and...

My students have a wonderful colorful subject to draw and paint!

I love the detail of the lace and the shadows it casts

Maracas added the final touch!

Love playing a bit in photoshop too!

So even today with the clouds and scattered snow showers 

we had something fun and bright and different to work on.

3:20 am

Oh, yes it is quite early!
It is Monday morning and normally if I can't sleep I would be stressing about
Having to get up in a few hours and get myself off to work. But, the weather has made a change in my plans as school is closed today. Yes ...yet another winter storm is upon us.
  So, now instead of squeezing my eyes shut and forcing myself to sleep
I am blogging!

I started blogging quite a few years ago. I need to look back through my archives to see exactly how long it's been. But my guess is about 9 years....wait I was able to scroll back and my blog was created on September 21, 2006!

Right now I'm blogging on my iPad. I love this portable little square miracle but, I haven't gotten to know how to use it as far as adding photos to my blog. So bear with me and I hope to bring some colorful and original art and photos here soon!

Have a great day my friends!

Down East…Still life

Hello my friends!!
Today we are working on a still life.
I have a yellow slicker, well worn

leather gloves and old lantern.

Wish I had some rope netting and an old lobster trap but ...I will have to do without that.

Here are some views and filters I am playing with…

The old gloves have so much character!

I love to go in and crop a small portion to work on.

As soon as I can I will show you some of the students and my drawings of this still life!

Today the winter winds are really blowing!

Brrr … But the temperatures are a bit warmer than yesterday!
Yesterday the windchill was about 20 BELOW ZERO!!
In fact school was cancelled- No one want the students out in that kind of weather.

This is the view from the gallery.
Its very snowy but seems to be a very dry and powdery snow.

This photo makes me feel chilled!
Cold grey/blue stone and snow beginning to stick.

No, I'm not a skier anymore so- I don't really have an appreciation of fresh falling snow.

However it was a great morning to have an early coffee with my co workers.
Kim brought in a mouth watering chocolate and cranberry/raisin loaf.
No matter how cold it gets I still enjoy my iced coffee

Have a great day and keep warm!!