12 Months, 12 Paintings

Finally finished another one...I could make excuses, and I have many, but can I just say that sometimes life gets in the way...

This is based on a photo we took in Lunenburg a couple of summers ago...Just loved the image of the beach ball and bucket in a bank office window....

12 Months - 12 Paintings

Finally finished a painting!

I could use this as a forum to complain about all the reasons that I haven't finished anything before, but I won't.

Terry was hanging out at school, and I wasn't teaching Art when the second semester started...I often painted along with the kiddies...finally, waiting for the Mrs. to finish up an afterschool meeting, I had time to slap on the last few touches...

Now, to find a place for him in my classroom...

52 Weeks - 52 Books #13, 14 & 15

I posted these three together, as I read them in succession.

My co-teacher and I in the English department,( Okay, that's stretching it, we are the English department.) decided that we would set up our courses so that each class had a unifying theme. It's been working really well. I've actually been doing the reading for some stuff for next year's themes, so we can be on the ball and order some new novels. (That's an ulterior motive...getting some new novels into the rotation!)

One theme I really want to do is a 'War & Peace' theme. So I read these. Myers' books are great. I've read a pile of his YA fiction, and it's really good. I especially liked Sunrise over Fallujah...nice to read something current.

Night, well, Night is great. What a fantastic account of the Holocaust. Jeez, I just read that. By fantastic I mean well written, with a very definite voice.

I could've erased that, but I figured it stands very interestingly as is.

52 Weeks - 52 Books #12

More Star Wars shenanigans...

I'll be honest, I'm looking forward to ending the series, not because it's bad, but I'm feeling kind of locked into the series, like I should have one of these in the wings, ready to be read...

52 Weeks - 52 Books #11

One of my top five favorite movies of all time...and I've finally read the book...

Maybe because I loved the movie so much, it made the book a bit much to take...

See, Luke, in the film, brilliantly portrayed by Paul Newman, is much more whimsical...less dark...even his death seems to be in question (Sorry if that spoiled it for the one person who reads this blog, and if you haven't seen the film, get off the Interweb and watch it please...)

Luke, in the novel, has a much more palpable anger... the scenes that are so beloved from the film, such as the eggs, are present, but it just feels meaner...

And let's be fair, you can only create so much whimsy in a work of fiction about a chain gang...

52 Weeks - 52 Books #9 & #10

Figured I might as well double up on this post. Yeah, I've clearly been geeking out...

I am really digging the New Jedi Order series...I mean, these are what I call popcorn books...I can polish one off in an uninterrupted afternoon...

But, I like what they've done with the series...the struggles that the characters are going through as a result of the war... well done.

52 Weeks - 52 Books #8

Awesome!

So, I'll be dorking it bigtime soon.

I have the series, and have so far eBayed the first miniseries, and am being frugal in my searching for The Final Battle.

I loved V as a kid, and really, really enjoyed this book. I mean, it's not without flaw, but still really enjoyable.

Very excited to see that a new TV remake has been greenlit...well, a pilot anyway....