5 Things to Remember When Creating an Art Journal!

1- Permanent Markers bleed through on your journal paper- So be careful when writing on the back of a page!
2- You will get messy-your hands may turn black when using India Ink and foamy soap does NOT clean them!
3- You are not always going to like the page backgrounds you do-the trick is to fix them!
4- When working in the classroom and you start tearing up large sheets of paper with your hand covered in India ink your students will look at you funny!
5- Jack Johnson on Pandora Radio does not drowned out hard rock!

A HS Art Teacher's Journal

Today is Friday!  Its started off a bit chaotic, but has now settled down!  Thanks heavens to Betsey for that.  So today I decided to spend minimal time on the computer and spend my day making art with my students.  Every once in a while I do that with them, they really do love it.  Last semester I did a drawing of Hadley on her dad's snowmobile.  And now that I have a student teacher I can do art ALL day!

Julie and I did an online workshop fro Art Trader Magazine on Art Journals.  Well, last semester was a bit crazy and I never really got around to doing it.  So today I printed off all the pages, put it in a binder and I have officially covered my journal!  A HS Art Teachers Journal of art n things!

Since our school is focusing on literacy I really want to incorporate what I am doing into my classes. Deb Day and I would love to team teach a class the incorporated art and writing, it would be AWESOME!  Stay tuned for examples of the journal, I am hoping to go CRAZY with it!!!!

Post Processing Photos, Yours, Mine and Ours!

I love to post process my photos, I like it almost as much, if not more than actually taking the photos!  I know when I am taking the photos what I can do to the photo.  So when one of my students asked me to do some editing on his senior photos I said sure.  This one was a bit of a challenge.  He had seen a photo on the internet that he want done.  So he gave me the 2 photos and let me do my magic. 
So here are the originals:

 

Here is what I have created for him, now he wants this for the yearbook, so I toyed around with some different crops.

Personally I really like what I did to the photo I put in the visor:

The Blog Web!

So the world wide web is really a web!!!  Yes I have know that for a while, but I blogs are linked even more than just "normal" web pages!  You can just keep clicking on links and you find the neatest, craziest blogs!  I LOVE IT!  Try it, click on one of my links on the left and you will forget that you were at my page in no time.

Why this post????  Well, the other day at lunch we were talking about blogs and why people make them.  Why would someone post there thoughts to the web?  For some it is therapy, for some it is a way to "get out of the house" without really getting out, others its a way to make money.  I was on mckmama's blog and she was me, first born, A student who became an art teacher, now she is a stay at home mom who take photos and makes money blogging!  How fun!!!!  Of course I don't know if I could stay at home with Hadley all day everyday, the summer is enough for me!  Anyway.....its amazing how a blog can become your life!