Welcome fall weather! The air is cool this morning and my students have put together some really nice pumpkin drawings together. Once these drawings were completed, the students had the chance to convert their compositions into larger paintings; which are now hanging on the wall outside the art classroom at the RGVAS. Keep a look out for future updates featuring new...
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Here are photos from our final summer camp of the year at RGVAS. The camps were very successful and we all had a great time. The theme of the week was Pop Culture and I had the students create some Soda Pop Art!
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The July summer camp at RGVAS was all about exploring movies. The final genre of the week was westerns. In my opinion, nothing says western like a desert sunset. I wanted the kids to experience something new this month so we started our paintings by applying color with palate knives. This months group of students created their own composition studying my painting...
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It has been a while since I’ve added any new info here, so let me try and catch up on a few things. I officially completed my first year with RGVAS this past February, it was a very exciting experience and I’m still working on ways to improve the class. This past spring one of my students entered the art competition at the Rio Grande Valley Livestock Show...
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Well I did some spring cleaning around the website (still making minor adjustments). This May will mark my blogs 1year anniversary but I didn’t want to wait that long to make some changes. As you can see they are some pretty big differences. I wanted this site too look a little more clean, and I really wanted to add some sort of wow to the homepage. I chose this...
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They say laughter is the best medicine, we shall see. For those who read this, not from the valley, we got a pretty big frost storm last night. This is very rare for our part of Texas. So I went out and took some photos this morning of all the awesome frozen stuff around our neighborhood. After a while the ice buildup on my car got pretty ridiculous, so I decided to got...
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Well my computer screen doesn’t want to light up, some loose connection according to Sony, which can only be fixed by mailing my laptop to them. So for the next few weeks I won’t have a computer to work on. Sorry to anyone looking for projects to be done. I really hope to be back up and running before New Years. I have lots of photos from RGVAS to upload so...
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My computer broke today, which means I won’t be able to do any graphic designs for a few weeks. Unfortunately, it also had my the Christmas card I designed saved on it. I hope to find a way to show some more of my students’ artwork this month. Until then I hope everyone enjoys a safe and accident free holiday season.
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