31/365 - Books can be deceiving.

January 31, 2011

I look professional... don't I? ;)

This is an area of my art room/shelf. An area that is so junky right now, I couldn't sit down and paint in less than a few hours if my life depended on it. Every weekend I say I am going to "clean the office" or "organize the office" or whatever, but we all know how that ends up. That's right. I go in there, move a few things around and get distracted. 

I want my art room to be in such a state that if I decided as soon as I got home that I wanted to paint a picture, I would be able to sit down and do it, no questions asked... or, no junk in my way.

28/365 - painted lantern

January 28, 2011

My kids painted this paper lantern I bought sometime last summer, I believe. It turned out great and hung in the middle of the classroom for a while. They loved it, especially during lunch when they'd ask for the lights to be turned out so we could turn on the battery operated light and let them eat under the cool light. Until one day I left for lunch and left it turned on and came back and it was dead.

Woops.

Another art project we did recently, "Seasonal Silhouettes"

21/365 - primary/secondary

January 21, 2011

Decided to take some "real" paint colors to school today. We don't just have... plain red/blue/yellow/white/black, so I took in some bottles I hadn't opened yet. I'm keeping them in my teacher bag of course, because otherwise I'd go in Monday and somehow the entire bottles would be empty. On a plate. Or on one picture. Next to an empty bottle of glue. That I just filled up yesterday.
I'm all about encouraging creativity and letting them do all kinds of arts and crafts... but some of the kids are like, "Miss Becky, I need to glue this" and I look and they literally have one piece of paper infront of them. They just want to... glue the piece of paper to itself. Over and over again.
Or, "Miss Becky, I need to cut this" and it's a piece of string. Being cut into a million pieces.

This sounds trivial, but I swear it drives me up a wall. And I hate paper airplanes being made out of expensive construction paper. Am I this anal?
Yeah, I am.

13/365 - Paint me up

January 13, 2011

Thursday at work I was taking pictures for labels in my art center. All I really want is a nice bottle of red, blue, yellow, black and white and then teach the kids how they can make ALL the colors from just that..... but they like sparkly hot pink much better anyway.