A+ for all the students! I admit I was a bit disarmed by their quiet demeanor but it was early in the morning (7:30 a.m.). There was hardly any feedback via expression when I first started talking. But we got started with some easy exercises and before long they each found a groove and you could observe their claim on self-expression. My only regret was that the day ended too soon! I wish I was back there today, continuing the mission of sharing the enthusiasm for making cool stuff together.
I am grateful to Mrs. Lentini-Pombrio and Mrs. Amme for the invitation to be the class tour guide into Altered Books. Check out how cool these art teachers are - back in March they were on a photo campaign. This is a very small sampling of the photos collected around school that they presented on a massive set of boards....ART SAVES! HCIT?
So many great comments have come in here, and by email, requesting the *handout* I mentioned for the class. I think it's awesome there are so many artists who want to give it a try! Give me a little time to wrap up some other deadlines (like getting the new rubber collection uploaded!!) and I will make it available. I want to do it properly with downloadable text, images, and photographed samples so it may take me a while. But I'm so psyched to do this. I am HARDLY an expert, but I think I have put together a nice jumpstart into the artform and I'm more than happy to share it. After it gets posted I was thinking it might be cool to take additional recommendations on page manipulations from YOU. I could compile the tips into a part two. Listen to me....I'm not even ready with part one yet. *smacks head*
