art for preschool hallway…

this is an iPhone picture 😦 i ALWAYS forget my camera when i go to Temple Emanu-El in Birmingham, Alabama. i edited the picture so that you didn’t have to see the hallway lights or walls. i was hired to make three signs for a preschool hallway. the preschool is named The Discovery School. i…

the cat that loves art class

my art class…three boys, one girl & one cat named Hobbes. my Wednesday art class. one is trying to squirt grey paint onto his paper. Hobbes watched the whole thing. so what are you going to do now?

love you to the moon & back– an art project

love you to the moon & back…i found these words in a catalog, a photograph of a kids room, with the tiny painting of love you to the moon… this art project made me look at EVERYTHING in a whole new way. i save some cool catalogs, but i never thought, nor could i afford…

have i gone mad?

or is this mirror filthy?! i found the mirror at the thrift store for $30. it had been painted an ugly brass color. i chose high gloss white for the frame, to put on the white walls of the studio. i have yet to buy straight edged blades to scrap off the paint… the cheshire…

why i teach young children to draw aLiEns & MonSteRs

i teach art classes in my studio. the youngest is 18 months & the oldest…well, i’m not going to tell you my age. the toddlers & children teach me how to be fearless-when it comes to putting any media to paper. the children teach me how to find humor in almost anything (“how do you…

Art cats & their creators…

The girls are my Friday Afternoon art class. This is the completion of their amazing drawings of their cats. Doodle cats W/color

my floating gemstone

This is Oscar the 2nd. I’ve been trying to think of a fun way of displaying such a beautiful fish. I had Oscar the 1st in a tall vase beside the sink, but he jumped out…and dried out. But today, i saw my mason jar on the counter. Brilliant idea! I bought fake plastic diamonds…

The cat desperate for a kiss

i keep candy in a Kettler Woodworks bowl for my art students. Hobbes, my cat, LOVES the wrappers on Hersey’s Kisses. I did throw away all the kisses in the bowl after i took these images. But i let Hobbes take his prized kiss & then watched him bat it around the art studio.