Creative Process

Here’s my drawing from yesterday. I’ve decided to stick with the monster theme all the way through and to focus on the same materials: crayons, pen, and acrylic paint. Being that I teach K-8 art, I feel that these materials are appropriate to express my pure joy of these last days! It’s such a silly little series of paintings anyways…..a painting each day, counting down till my ten week vacation! What the kids don’t get is that honestly, the teachers want this vacation way more than them! I start my countdown from day one. Pathetic, but embarrassingly true. So imagine…

Yesterday I got home and I was exhausted. Hideously exhausted. I worked from 8AM till 9PM without no stops. They were pulling me in every direction like I was a piece of melting taffy. But I won’t go further in complaining then that. My multi-cultural event went well. I spent the evening painting henna designs on hands and my wrist is still paying the price of art. But even exhausted as a mule in the Grand Canyon, I came home and completed Fourteen in celebration of finishing my fourteenth day till vacation! (enter ten second dance party!) I picked up…

I’m procrastinating. I need to be getting ready to go to work, but I’m doing everything but. Today is going to be the world’s longest day at work, so maybe that’s why I’m prolonging the start time! Plus, I did not get tons of sleep last night, because after I finished blogging, I prepared for bed, then thought I’d do a little drawing. I have this fine idea that with 15 days of work actually left, I’d make a little drawing to commemorate each last day. Here is number 15. I know that with the horrible day I had yesterday…