king and queen for a day

I am working on this one for an upcoming juried show.

Thought he needed a metal crown...

and she needed some buttons.

Will share the finished version next week.

fireflies and s'mores mean summer

Ahh summer officially starts today.

Yesterday was my last day of school, working in a 1/2 split class.

Oh how I will miss those guys and their energy.

Next week I teach summer art/iPad camp all week.

We will be creating in mixed media and 

then trying the same subject on the iPad.

Should be wonderful and I will be posting projects next week.

Here is a glimpse of the firefly project we will create on Tuesday.

and here is our summer treat that we received from the Latte crew this week.

Think I will put the idea on pinterest - 

so adorable.

Wishing you all a wonderful, warm summer!

special delivery

I delivered two large notebooks,

two small notebooks,

two small button collages and

four large button collages

to the gallery.

So they are stocked for the summer.

Come see...

My newest art at the gallery

 I decided to try some thing different.

You may remember I was making notebooks,

but what if you didn't want a notebook,

but liked the look.

So I created some art with the same idea.

 And of course I have to add words,

just because,

well they make me laugh,

and all old books should be given a second chance,

don't you agree?

 I would love to own a crow named Amelia whose nose was elevated.

 I am hoping to make these

as the price point will be much lower and

just hopefully these will allow me to make some monthly money

as I do have some big news...

No TAing next year. 

I will really miss those guys,

but it's time for a change.  

I will teach 3 after school art classes each week

so I will still get my kid-fix

and...

spend the rest of my time

creating art!

Here are my pieces at the gallery

just waiting to go to a loving home.

Please come see!

stacked stones

I love this verse and immediately thought of it when I saw these stacked stones 

at the Bellevue Botanical Garden last week.

Wonder if my husband would feel like drilling holes in our stones?

The Bremen Town Musicians meet iPads

We read The Bremen Town Musicians

this week in iPad Fairy Tales.

The kids enjoyed stacking the animals-

a challenge artistically, but fun none the less.

This last one is a WIP

and it is snowing -
and there is German timbered home -

how clever is that?

Goldilocks and the Three Bears iPad style

The iPadders were great sports 

as we took pictures of them pretending to be Goldilocks.  

We imported the photos of them,

then drew out the background, next fluffed a pillow, sketched a bed (hard to do) 

and finally added some bears.

You can probably tell which are my samples...

Hope they make you smile!