Doggie Bed

Doggie Bed

Ginger loves her bed!

Doggie Bed

This doggie bed was discovered/invented by my Dachshund, Ginger, and I. Ginger loves to bury herself especially when she is sleeping. So one day a pillow covered with a pillow sham with a slit in back was turned over and she curled up inside of it. I put the pillow in her travel kennel, otherwise known as her bed, and ever since she has been sleeping in the pillow every night. She loves it!!

Youth Art Month

Megan, grade 4

Samantha, grade 1

Sophia, grade 5

Ben, grade 2

Elena, grade 5

This is a project I taught for Youth Art Month…

To celebrate Youth Art Month students in grades one through six participated in an after-school art workshop on Silk Painting. This is an easy and fun way to teach the art of silk painting in a condensed time frame. Students began with a drawing. They could draw whatever they wanted. Some drew repeated patterns of shapes and lines. Others drew more detailed pictures of nature. We placed the drawing under silk that I had stretched around cardboard ahead of time and traced the lines of the drawing with Pentel® Fabric Fun Pastel Dye Sticks. After the dye stick drawing was ironed to set the colors, students began to paint with Dye-na-Flow® Silk Dyes. Their masterpieces turned out beautiful! Warning: With a group of 33 students I was relieved to have help from another teacher.

Happy Youth Art Month!!

Portrait of Nick

I painted this portrait of my son, Nick, about three years ago. I would really like to find time to paint more portraits. This was painted with oil paints on canvas board.