Latest decorative papers

New decorative papers...

Created a pile of decorative papers! I will probably have to upload pics tomorrow - I'm in the process of uploading pictures from one of our tech sessions during the retreat...

It was very enjoyable to sleep in, do a little shopping and do some artwork! Tomorrow is a day of meetings to work on the Arts and Technology Mini-conference planning! Who says teachers get the summers off?

Home from the PAEA retreat!

Back home and recovering from a very successful PAEA retreat! We learned new things, collaborated and shared techniques and strategies, discussed professional development and the upcoming regional arts and technology mini-conferences and state conference. We visited the Philadephia Museum of Art and had the opportunity to view an discuss pieces in the collection. We also had the opportunity to visit the Teacher Center and those who are not members, are now signed up for Artstor - an amazing resource for art teachers! Several of us also traveled to New Hope for a little bit more of a taste of the area (southeastern pa).

I plan to sleep in tomorrow and then it's back to decorative papers and working on altered book pages - look for some more pictures!

PAEA Leadership Retreat 2009, Arcadia University, Glenside, PA.

Hi All!
I am at Arcadia University in Glenside at the PAEA (Pennsylvania Art Education Association) Leadership Retreat.

Yesterday we spent time developing content to add to the PAEA Ning site that is being developed for the membership. We are addressing Professional Concerns, Membership Issues, actual art production processes, lesson and unit planning, etc. As we develop images and video files, they will be posted to the Ning for the membership of PAEA to access, use and with which to interact.

Today, Saturday, 7/11/09, we are working on our pages on the PAEA.org website and our pages and discussion on the PAEA Ning. We have also launched the sale of PAEA branded merchandise at http://www.btsportswear.net/ . We continue to work on our pages on the PAEA website and the Ning.

Tonight, we are on our own and I'm taking a crew of art teachers to New Hope! Oh yes, there will be good food and fun on the menu tonight!

more papers

Some additional papers...

Decorative papers

I'm working on a number of decorative papers. As I complete them, I'll add them here. The intention is to build a body of papers and develop a number of book structures from those papers. Who knows what I'll end up with! I'm using acrylic inks, dry brush, wet-in-wet and water-base crayons.

Some painting?

I am so busy trying to make room for my daughter's return home that I have little time for anything else! I am going to set myself up on the deck and do some painting today. Just some decorative page for an artist's book. Experimental, fun , quick and spontaneous!