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I'm going to get better at this blog thing...

I have been so bad at keeping up on this blog. I really want to do it, I really want to post, and share and I actually enjoy the writing. I just can't seem to remember to squeeze it in between grading projects, hanging projects, taking projects down, grading sketch warm ups, grading yearbook logs and journals, updating yearbook ads scanned, oh yeah - finishing that college class I HAVE to take because the state says so. Ugh, I know - we are all doing these things.
So, here we are, May 2.... End the the year, well close to it. We are holding our 7th annual art auction/dinner. I decided to try the dinner part again. We are having pulled pork sandwiches, yum! This year we are sharing the limelight with our new Science teacher so it is--------Art Auction / Science Fair Night.
I am excited, hopefully a lot of people come and check out our student art work and science projects. It's been difficult working on art auction pieces this year, feels like we always have a project to get through. I think it has something to do with larger class sizes I have this year. 31, 26, 28 - and then there's that class of 12, that's the senior class that is comprised of about 5 kids that either have not had art before or don't want to do assignments that I assign, they want to just draw, with pencil, what they want to draw, and not work on any kind of practicing of skills. So, that's been a tough group to inspire.

Ok, enough crying.
Here are some of the awesome art projects that will be featured at this year's art auction.

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Photo Book

This is a photo book I made using Shutterfly about one of our stops on a Photography field trip we took last spring. I am HORRIBLE at getting thank you cards out to people for things like making our field trips awesome. So, I would like to take my class on this field trip again this spring and I would like to include the Sturgeon River Pottery as one of our stops. This was a great place to see what some of the local artists in Northern Michigan create. This business also awards grants in the $50-$250 range to Middle and High School Art Teachers to provide support to school visual art programs. We have been fortunate enough to have been awarded this grant on 6 different occasions  We used the money to bring Teacher's Discovery Traveling Exhibits to our Community and also purchase extended flashes for 4 of our cameras for yearbook/art. Anyways, I created this book as a thank you for their support and hospitality during our field trip. My students had an awesome time exploring their art. Many students were quoted saying "this was the best field trip ever!".

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8th grade

In eighth grade we worked on one point perspective. I try to make this project more interesting every year I work on it with students. I love the project, I just don't know if they all do. This year we worked on one point perspective with watercolor pencils. Some students had some pretty awesome backgrounds to go with their city buildings. I especially love the trees some of them painted.

Look at these clouds, love it! This student claimed he could already do one point perspective because I taught it to him in 7th grade and wanted to work in two point perspective. Humph. Who am I to argue with a student that claims to remember what I've already taught him. I see this one in  my future high school art classes. 

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