Crazy Hair Day

Hastings Reads

Wednesday was crazy hair day in our district to help promote a great event in our community called Hastings Reads. Its a week long event with happenings all over the town! This year the theme is resilience, and one of the focus books is Crazy Hair Day, thus the crazy hair day at school. The kids absolutely loved it, and of course I did too! I figured whats more crazy for an art teacher then using art materials to help out with the crazy hair style? So here you go... my crazy hair!

Color + Wine

Monday was a snowday... aka a cold-day! Most of MN was experiencing -40 to -60 wind chills. I took it upon myself to try and stay inside... and that was a challenge! I started with a big pot of coffee and some painting. 2 hours later I created another painting! A few weeks ago I created a painting for my friend Kristen, to give to her friend as a gift, she wanted a wine themed painting. I started playing around with vibrant colors and movement, the style I love to paint in, and came up with this (above). I loved the look so much I wish I could have kept it for my own kitchen. My goal for this cold-day was to create another variation of this theme. Here is what I created, and I absolutely love it!

Pieces of Creating

Pieces of Creating is a blog all about art, creating art, teaching art, and living with art. After a 5th year of college (finishing a minor in special education and subbing), and 3 busy years of starting an elementary art teaching job I finally have some more down time and look forward to doing more with my blog! Enjoy :)