Color Cat Studios: Art Teacher Life

Wednesday, January 22, 2020

Art Teacher Life

Absolutely buried under Artist Trading Cards. Artist Trading Cards, or ATCs, are to be traded card for card among artists. We’re exploring pattern my classes and have been looking at contemporary artists that work in the textile industry. Our first trade will be ‘Patterns.’ So much fun!

I’ve been working with my awesome Molotow chrome pen; that’s why they’re laying all over. They have to dry!!

Cool, huh? I’m also teaching them about focal point, thus the card I’m holding up has a focal point because of the black ink outline.

Now everything’s wet and I just need to walk away. So... I’m going to go work out, swim and shower, then come home for supper and go to orchestra. That’ll take me until about 9:00. At that point, I’ll probably have a little snack, enjoy my fam and hopefully get a little more work done before bed.

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Turkish tour

Another look at those natural color-sources. I asked about cochineal, because you couldn't just have that on a shelf, and yes, their deep reds are cochineal. It's a South American insect that is a parasite to the prickly pear. Owners deposit them into their fields, and blow them off and collect them once they're big. Then they crush their fat, bloody bodies for a nice, natural, red dye. I'm so happy to report that the rug we purchased has cochineal in it. I'm also happy to report that it's likely in your lipstick and blush, ladies, and if you drink cherry coke - it's in there, too! :)

'My' Chair

At our theatre the other night we had an orchestra meeting after I taught my sets class. After about a half hour, someone pulled me out of the meeting for a few minutes. When I came back, everyone in the room was laughing and pointing to the nice, uh, black leather chair. I had paint on the back of my shirt, and it permanently smeared all over the leather! The last time I went in the office, I noticed that someone had taped up the sign you see here. One way to lay claim to something! Well, it's not the first time, let's see, there's my driveway with many colors of paint, our carpet with Peter Pan green footprints, my car with yellow paint on the seat, my gloves, half of my clothes. It seems like everyone likes my painted clothes, kind of like already-broken-in-jeans. Maybe I should start a clothing line!

Color Cat Studios

Wednesday, January 22, 2020

Art Teacher Life

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