new logo.

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pinterest

are you on pinterest? well, if you're not... you should be.

pinterest is a great new site that allows you to make virtual pin boards that allow you to save any image that you find on the internet to virtual 'pinboards' of your inspirations, your favorite things, or whatever else you choose.

you can follow me here.

i love pinterest because it allows me to save all the great art images that i find on the web. it then allows me to not only immediately share those images with my friends and students, but they can share their inspiration with me.

here are a few of the many images that i have pinned.

new mix cd!

curious what you're hearing in the artroom recently?
here is the song list for the new mix that we've been listening to. if you want a copy, let me know.

murals!

thanks to thomas' own mrs. rosenbury for writing this great piece about art club for the democrat and chronicle.
check it out here!

below you can see the awesome mural painted around ms. geary's door, by beth peterson.

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creation!

another day in AP art full of concentration and focus.
love this crew.

new work by audrey kawasaki

audrey kawasaki is one of my favorite contemporary artists. her soft attention to color & form juxtaposed with heavy black outlines, use of the wood painting surface, and creative figurative elements make her work visually arresting to me.

here are some of her new works. these are interesting because they show a definite van gogh inspiration.

you can find out more here.

artist of the week :: irina & silviu szekely

surrealism!

collage!

scale confusion!

change of space!

more!

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i needed something profound with which to send off my semester students.

visit from sari

local portrait artist and all-around awesome lady sari gaby came to do a workshop for my drawing 1 class yesterday. as always, it was informative, fun, and inspiring for my students and myself. if you are interested in finding out more about sari or her workshops, contact me or check out her website.

here are some pictures of the workshop, as well as the most recent works of my junior student hannah as well as the display board with work on it from all my current classes. 

great stuff happening in the art room right now.

2011-12 rochester-finger lakes student art show

this year's poster for the annual rochester-finger lakes student art exhibition held at RIT features the work of one of my students - lainey chippero. pretty awesome stuff.

if you are interested in seeing more great high school work from the region, join us for the opening reception or any time during the run of the show.

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