Workshop and Meeting Notes

I've been attending a bunch of workshops and meetings lately. I'm a doodler. Because I don't have as much art time as I'd like, my doodles are a bit more like mini art pieces than mindless doodling.

I was at one workshop about differentiating instruction, and the presenter actually said it was okay to doodle if you were a doodler! That's where the boy in the bottle arrived. Actually, she was a really good presenter, so I was actually listening and taking notes, not just doodling.

The girl on the tire swing is a sketch that may become a larger piece at some point in the near future.

I'm hoping to get some stuff up here. I'm working really hard on finishing some pieces that I've been working on for a while...some prints at work, some tape art, and a couple of paintings at home...Optimus Prime and Cool Hand Luke...

FISH! sketches

Hey there! Just to make it look like I'm doing more arty stuff than I really am, here's four sketches that I scanned to stick on some posters I made for my classroom(s). They're for posters about the FISH! philosophy, this great thing that I learned about during PD up north, and have been reading up on again. The whole philosophy is based on the workers at Pike's Fish Market in Seattle, where the workers just have a ball at work. The four main concepts, as I've sorta illustrated are (in order of the pics) Make Their Day, Play, Be There and Choose Your Attitude. I love the philosophy, as it is more or less the way I feel about life.

Also, I realized that I am fun to draw. Little kids love to draw me.

Finally got something new up here. There wasn't near as much doodle time as I'd have hoped over the summer. I have a couple of pieces from Nova Scotia that nead a few more minutes each that I'll get up here soonish, as well as a chalkboard for quotes that I'm painting for my classroom. That should be done tomorrow, but I may not get it posted until I get my 'puter back from the shop!

This sh.. is Bananas!

I was thinking I needed a logo, or whatever. I doodled this guy up. It's Bananas, our stuffed monkey, who travels pretty much everywhere we do.

I'm hoping at some point to take this, and spiff it up digitally...you know, when I get time.

ArtJumble: Rabbits

Okay, so by staying up really late when I should've been asleep, I found time to finish a piece for ArtJumble this week. Obviously, the theme was rabbits. This guy started as an evil bunny, but he got kind of non evil looking and then I got sidetracked, and wasn't feeling the desire to give him a body. So the original plan was to have this head poking out of grass. Then, I thought of Watership Down, and the grass became water.

Vader

I love ArtJumble. I hate having to find the time to do a piece each week, but I love getting the topic, and running with it.

Two weeks of Star Wars. Yeah, I know...awesome.

This guy is done in pen, so you know it took forever. Had planned to keep him in the car to work on while waiting for DW, but wound up working on him at lunchtime. Took a long time!

HNRAAAH HWRAHH NHRAAAGH!

Punch it Chewie!

Finished this guy up yesterday for ArtJumble. He's acyrlic on acetate, which kinda means painting backwards. Good exercise in planning out a piece.