artist: Ann Preston

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My hs students will be working on embossing next. I am enjoying looking up examples and playing with the metals.

Tomorrow I will take a trip to the cob house to inhale the smell of creativity, throw on the wheel, and emboss with the master - Barbie!


EXCITED :o)

pockets

At the elementary I work with 2 other art teachers, a male who works the first semester and a female who works this semester both who were my teachers in grade school. the female is out for a new grandbaby and the male is subbing for her.

a month or so ago-one day a first grade boy noticed we both share the art room and saw me in the hallway and informed me that my husband was waiting for me in my room. I am not married, dating some one - no...who could this boy be talking about? WAIT! Mr. Male Art Teacher who is 65+? oh geez ! thanks!

today: same male art teacher- we are chatting in the hallway as his third grade students are filing into the room. since he was subbing the students were really excited he was back- this one girl said "yay look at my new pants!"- who then turned around and semi bent over to show the butt pockets of the jeans! -they were pink and purple rhinestones in the shape of a butterfly! The male art teacher blushes band I start hysterically laughing! He says "oh yes, just want I wanted to see" :o)

Funny day in Happyville !

American Gothic, The Scream !

**notice the superbowl art with the arrow pointing out the score :o)

fairy tale

Once upon a time there was a boy who told a girl that cardigans were for 65 yr old women. This girl always wore cardigans over her short sleeve shirts. This boy always made her feel frumphy by pointing out she had over one million cardigans. Then one day came a huge bundle of flowers with a note to the girl who wore cardigans all the time. Attached to the flowers was a card that said:



The artroom had flowers. The girl was happy. The end.

sharks

5 yr old boy: "Sharks are very dangerous,(in my picture) they are going to eat all these people who will fall off of a roller coaster!"

Me: "Oh no! I'm scared of sharks!"

5 yr old boy: "No, don't worry Miss Nelson, sharks eat all sorts of people but sharks don't eat art teachers."


- Thank goodness sharks have a distaste for art teachers ! I will survive after all :)

hair and earrings

My elementary students occasionally decide to draw me in their pictures and I always have a bun or dangling earrings ! Quite darling if you ask me :o)

-artwork by a kindergardener- impressive!