Well, I said I'd update my gallery and it took me one day to do so. There are 11 new pieces up: 9 in the general gallery and 2 new paintings in the Imprinted gallery. The ceramic pieces, sculptures and drawings were all created/finished in the last week. The card game was done this past summer, as were the two Imprinted paintings. I should be uploading another drawing and an illustrated book tomorrow. That'll be 24 individual deviations in two days. My most active month in the nearly 6 years I've been on here.

Yeah, so it's not only been awhile since I updated the journal (2.5 years), but it's been awhile since I updated the gallery. I plan on updating with a lot of new art (I haven't been sitting on my butt) in the next 2 weeks. I need to photograph a lot of it, but I'll get it up here.

Yeah....It's been over a year since my last journal. So sue me. I have been busy. I began student teaching January 7th and have roughly 6 weeks left. I've been teaching art at an inner city school here in Muncie, Indiana. I mainly teach 3 different classes, all 2-D art. The largest challenge is getting the students to care enough to do work.

I've taught lessons on still-lifes (BOO!), Contour Drawing, Picasso's Portraits, Willem De Kooning, Mosaic portraits, realistic portraits using oil pastels, Chuck Close, and upcoming illustration and Van Gogh paintings.

So, in about a month and a half, I will be a licensed art teacher and will hopefully have lined up a teaching job somewhere in this country. Though I wouldn't necessarily turn down teaching in Japan....


BWA HA HA HA HA . .. COUGH!

I have begun teaching Saturday art classes for my 3rd Art Ed class. I've taught one lesson so far and have six more to go. I'm halfway done with lessons on Zen gardens. After that will be Earth Art and then set design in the Lord of the Rings movies. I'm teaching 5th and 6th grade and the kids are pretty good. I taught the first lesson sick, but I'm better now, which is good, because it's a lot harder to get stuff done while sick. While I can't post pics of me teaching because of laws dealing with images of kids, I will post some images of the work from the class once I have some.

Well I have been in Muncie, Indiana for almost 3 weeks now. It really doesn't feel that long, but I guess it has been. Being in college as a postbac is kind of weird because I don't know many people and those that I meet are all 3 or 4 or MORE years younger than me. In that regards, it doesn't help that I only have 3 classes. But that does mean I have time for a job . . . if anyone here was hiring. So I've decided to use my free time to work on art. I've already finished my photo transfer onto aluminum (as in I finally framed it) and built a work table (all in 2 days for both). Now I've moved on to systematically work on my drawing by drawing every day. I've also been practicing my watercolors so that I can paint the self portrait which I drew about 6 months ago. I actually have plenty of materials for making art, I just need to MAKE it.