Vacation Time!

How much do I enjoy April Vacation?

Let me tell you …

Especially after the very long and snowy winter we had

going to Florida was an amazing treat!!!

We flew from Albany straight to Ft. Lauderdale.

Even with the daily showers and thunderstorms it was FANTASTIC!!!!

Here I am on the deck of our room..

I was thrilled to wake up each morning and 

gaze out into the ocean!

I will mention a few of the high lights of our visit.

                      Even with the rain clouds we found our excursion on the Water Taxi to be most enjoyable!!

We drooled over the many spectacular yachts (ships) and homes along the intercoastal way.

For example 

This is Steven Spielberg's yacht…

And this is the lovely home owned by the Pillsbury family.

More photos to come

All for today!

:O) Mary

Hump Day!

We are playing with watercolors still

I zoomed in to this rose and then painted what was there...

Then today I finished it

Augh... so sorry its a lousy photo!

My card reader quit on me!

The project for my students was to

end up with an abstract painting similar to a Georgia O'Keefe

Happy Wednesday everybody!!

HERE IS A BETTER PICTURE…

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!