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My early finishers this week created a series of pop art inspired MLK Jr murals for our assembly on Friday. I can't wait to post my thoughts about one of the things that makes Warhol so special to me on the wall next to this one for folks to read as they
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When you put a super Christmassy door up and have to blast something else up before the kids come back to school tomorrow and you spent all day working on prepping the next couple of weeks and taped and painted pieces together with your four year old at a
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I picked up knitting in 2003 during a boring Wisconsin winter, and it just feels weird when you stop and take stock of how long you've known how to do something and oh snap I've been knitting for over fifteen years. Bizarre. Finished one wrist warmer over
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"Where's the hairy skeleton?" I asked Phil as he worked on his roller coaster set this morning. (Last night he had shown me how he gave one a toupee.) . "Oh he's a mutant skeleton now," was his very calm reply as he handed me this tiny awesome ridiculousn
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Inspired by my college buddy @mattywardo to share this Raphael I drew in my sketchbook during Christmas. He was test driving Procreate and knocked out a sweet Leonardo; I was breaking in some new markers Phil had given me. . What is it about new art suppl
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Dude. Chuck Taylor shoes on a shoestring budget. (You see what I did there) . http://bit.ly/cheapchucks <- that's an affiliate link to where I found shoe love on Amazon. If you pick up a pair of cheap Chucks via that link it helps buy my kids a pizza, and
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Not really resolutions. More like a to do list. Ultimate coolness if this is the year we reinstate having chickens. . #newyear #resolutions #resolution2018 #newyearresolutions #newyearresolution #newyearsday #womenWhoDraw #illustratorsOfInstragram #illust
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I looked at my top nine for 2018 and my year of color for 2018, and it was all weirdly disjointed. The color one hit me funny because it was all muted shades... a big difference from the bright happy I'm always drawn to in my work. It's been a year of tra
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Later I wrote in small letters along the tree "ask a 3rd through 5th grader why this is funny" so someone that hadn't seen @banksy's @sothebys stunt wouldn't think I was a huge Grinch. . P.s. I'm going to be sad to take this door down after Christmas. . #
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Phil and I are prepping a paper bag pinata activity for his International Christmas theme Cub Scout Pack meeting tomorrow night. It's been pretty sweet being his wolf den leader this year. . #cubScouts
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Sneak peek of a huge project I'm working on during my Early Morning Arty Party. I can't wait to share what this is for, and what the whole thing looks like when it's finished!! . #illustratorsoninstagram #illustratorsOfInstragram #womenWhoDraw #earlyMorni
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Nerd alert I got new art supplies on Black Friday! Picked up a 24 pack of Blick brand illustration markers from Utrecht for $15, which was a pretty dang good deal. Trying to get my blending mojo back with markers - who's got helpful hints? . #nerdAlert #m
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Fyi Utrecht has a four pack of floating painting frames for a super reasonable price, and that plus some 3M command strips helped make the kitchen in our rental feel more like home today. I'm gonna buy a ton of command strips and start hanging some art ar
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Been a little quiet lately between fall break from school and working on some big projects... Here's an illustration I did recently for a client's Save the Date cards! I absolutely love how this one turned out, and I can't wait to work on the rest of this
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My page and my heart is beyond full today. Happy Thanksgiving everyone. . #thanksgiving #thanksgiving # #handLettering #illustratorsoninstagram #earlyMorningArtyParty
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Cooking up a batch of elderberry syrup in the kitchen right now with elderberries from our old house in Guyton (and blueberries from the grocery store... My own blueberry plant is still basically a stick with leaves on it). I promise this is Thanksgiving
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Getting up at 6:30am to paint with Joy is always a good idea. . #earlyMorningArtyParty #artTeachersOfInstagram #artTeacher #stillLife #apples #acrylicpainting #parenting #family
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I'm in the midst of 360+ students all glazing their ceramics projects, and I might have missed the faculty Thanksgiving potluck yesterday because I was cleaning up from some overzealous kindergartners, but the excited happy energy from all my students com
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I'm kind of proud of these pumpkins I painted from life in my journal this week. Goals for 2019: try out plein air painting. . #illustratorsoninstagram #artTeachersOfInstagram #gouache #pumpkins #pumpkinSpiceLife #painting #earlyMorningArtyParty
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Drawing pumpkins at 5am. . #earlyMorningArtyParty #drawing #womenWhoDraw #illustratorsoninstagram #pumpkins #pumpkinSpiceLife #inktober2018
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Phones are useful, phones are great. But every time I get to be alone without my phone... Those times are my favorite. It was so awesome to drive back down to Effingham County over the weekend for ridiculousness with the huzz and our Cub Scout friends fro
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I forgot to show y'all the banner I made for Red Ribbon Week at our school! Laminated this sucker so it'd survive a week on a wall in the cafeteria. . #redRibbonWeek #paperCollage #artInstallment #elementaryschoolart #artTeachersOfInstagram #paperMural #e
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When you walk into a class you're taking and they say "write your name and your school on this popsicle stick" and also you're an art teacher. . #artTeachersOfInstagram #elementaryschoolart #artTeachers #handLettering #typography #surfacepatterndesign #wo
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It takes a village, y'all. Had the good fortune of being allowed to shadow another elementary school art teacher in our school district for an entire day yesterday, and came away with fifteen pages of notes on ideas for better flow in my own classes. Earl
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Listen @Adobe, you asked. . #ScrubbyZoomIsTheWorst #feedback #iHeartSandwiches #photoshop
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I've been getting reacquainted with my old friend clay, and it's been glorious. The last time I had a chance to work with it was about fifteen years ago - and now as I dust off bits and pieces of techniques I used to know by heart, I'm adding learning how
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Making a quick painting pieces collage sample to show my K-2 kids next week. #betterTogether #volcano #artTeachersOfInstagram #collage
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At this point it's pretty much expected that I will never make it through an entire #inktober. But I'll still try again next year (and abandon it three days later).
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My favorite thing about this sampling of crazy hair self portraits from my grade 3-5 students is each has a distinctly different style, but they are all quality pieces that hit every point they needed to. ♥️♥️:black_heart_s
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If your brain immediately went here when you saw what the prompt was for today's #inktober2018 then obviously we can be friends. . #boomRoasted #roasted #inktober #illustratorsoninstagram #handLettering #womenWhoDraw #ink #marker #drawing #theOffice #mich
