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Every year, each of my fifth grade students corresponds through mail art with a professional artist....

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Uploaded on Feb 15, 2012

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Here is a slightly shorter than usual animation from my slightly smaller than usual after-school art class.

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Uploaded on Jan 26, 2012

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I just got word that this comic by one of my third graders earned an honorable mention in Scholastic Art's One-Sheet Comic Contest!

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Uploaded on Jan 24, 2012

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Here are just a few of my students' sketches from the extracurricular drawing safari that I hosted at the Los Angeles Zoo this month.

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Uploaded on Jan 24, 2012

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In all humility, I have to say that I think I have honed this printing project to perfection. It began...

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Uploaded on Jan 24, 2012

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I collaged this self-portrait as an example for my first graders' next project. Considering...

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Uploaded on Jan 24, 2012

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I loved the simplicity with which this artist solved the main challenge of the cartoon dream house...

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Uploaded on Jan 24, 2012

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This cartoon dream house was more abandoned than finished but it turned out pretty lovely nonetheless.

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Uploaded on Jan 24, 2012

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Hawaiian beach house, as imagined by a seventh grade cartoonist.

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In all seriousness, here is a clever dream dream house. The artist needed a little help fitting it all...

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Uploaded on Jan 24, 2012

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And how in the world do TWO young artists come up with the SAME crazy undersea dream house?

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Uploaded on Jan 24, 2012

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Of all the wildly original dream houses that the seventh graders' invented, this one is not to...

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Uploaded on Jan 24, 2012

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The seventh graders' cartoon dream house assignment is another attempt to inject some joie de vivre...

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Uploaded on Jan 24, 2012

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Here is another nice example from the seventh graders' dream house project. This one may have been...

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Uploaded on Jan 24, 2012

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Although this still-life assignment is pretty academic, I love the strange landscapes and weird moods that the kids are able to create with it.

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Uploaded on Jan 24, 2012

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My more advanced fourth graders made a dozen paper houses from which the entire class drew these...

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Uploaded on Jan 24, 2012

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Every semester, I teach an extracurricular fine art drawing and painting class for students who really...

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Uploaded on Jan 24, 2012

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I've been doing this project for a few years now. So, I forget to mention it sometimes. But...

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Uploaded on Jan 24, 2012

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