Archive for the ‘Misc. art’ Category
"Arrrgh! This always happens to me. The mural gets started and I forget to take pictures," I told my 3rd hour students before fetching my camera from my bag of supplies. Yesterday my EPS (elite painting squadron) and I painted a mural in the cramped hallway between the high school's main office and the guidance [...]
Read MoreHere's my finished poster for the Fine Arts Festival. A little cutting, a little pasting, and my seniors are all lined up the way I imagined. (Mr. Orange) Matt's mother volunteered to hang most of the posters in our school district's five communities. We've had some great parental involvement with the festival already, which is [...]
Read MoreEvery year our school holds the Fine Arts Festival, which is a celebration of all things creative at Unity High School, and every year it's my responsibility to come up with a poster for it. Lately I've used the poster as a way to showcase my seniors who have taken art classes all four years, and what you [...]
Read MoreMy students have finished their book covers, and we're going to deliver them to the library tomorrow. This was a great project for them and for me. I was impressed with their originality and enthusiasm for the project, and I don't think any of us can wait to see these old, unchecked-out books back in [...]
Read MoreMy advanced students and I are working on an art project inspired by a series of classic novels featuring the artwork of fashion illustrator Ruben Toledo. I spotted his gorgeous take on The Scarlet Letter at Borders last month and greedily scooped it up along with the equally fabulous Wuthering Heights. "We've got to do [...]
Read More[Note: my review of U2 at Soldier Field was published earlier this week on @U2. Because I love my readers who have followed me from @U2 to my blog, I've added some extra photos to this one, so that's why I'm calling this version deluxe. --K] "RUSTY." This item topped my list of 22 mostly-negative [...]
Read MoreMy intermediate and advanced high school students are truly awesome. While many would imagine that my job is fulfilling, and it mostly is, teaching art can also be exhausting, exasperating, and sometimes even humiliating. But it makes me happy to know that I will get to spend time with these delightful people every day this [...]
Read MoreSunday night we were hanging some paintings around the house. Our walls are strangely shaped with lots of bookshelves and windows taking up prime art real estate. A large, Cezanne-esque painting of bathers is positioned between two bookshelves. It was here before we married, and while I like it and it goes with the furniture [...]
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