Wow. Summer rocked!

I just know that this upcoming school year will rock, too.

Welcome, and Welcome Back!

• Orphan Art! Several pieces of artwork are in the classroom. All pieces (2D and 3D) need to be picked up by Friday, August 6. If artworks are not picked up, they will go up for adoption.
• Plan for Success! Visit my webpage to read. Please return your acknowledgment cards ASAP.

Hurray for Summer!

Well, I had a very unexpected opportunity to travel to Australia this summer with students--and so, of course, I've been in Australia!

However, I haven't forgotten about you. I tried, actually, posting some ideas for sketching while I was in Sydney, but (alas), ran out of time on my internet cafe card.

I did a lot of sketching while I was abroad, and I hope you've been sketching, too! Here are some ideas to jump-start the ol' brain:

• Dream Travel Destination
• Let a family member pick your subject matter
• Go to a thrift store/antique store/yard sale and get a couple of old photos. Paste into sketchbook and create a drawing narrative around those images.
• Junk food with wrapper (when finished eating said junk food, glue the wrapper in your book!)
• Zoom in on an object until it is abstracted
• Create a magazine mosaic
• Summer in the City
• Solitude
• Love
• War
• Draw to your current favorite song
• Draw on napkins at a restaurant and then glue your drawings in your book
• Go to a gallery and sit on a bench, drawing from inspiration
• Any time you see something interesting in magazines, tear it out and glue it in!
• Doodle! Doodle! Doodle!

If you have been sketching, send me a photograph and I'll post it on the blog!

Enjoy yourselves.