National Poetry Month 2015, Week 3
April 16 Dream Changing At night, in the darkness, I sleep restless, unfulfilled so many ideas flicker into my thoughts desires, as yet unspoken and not yet built into plans the momentary images pass...
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She holds her tears, does not complain as you treat her with disdain neglecting her to pursue your whims careful, soon what’s left of love will dim once before, you cherished her showed her daily how...
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Sentenced to enternal strife. Forever seems so long to be trussed when miserable and bickering. How is this life? Once vowed to be your wife and in you misplaced my trust. Marriage: a sentence to...
View ArticleSWF: Go
She’s not ready to go on. Trembling, she stood before me then someone familiar when her known world starts its many changes. Her beginning. Yes, an ending, too. Of childhood. But here she is, days...
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Week One, Done
She’s completed her first week of preschool. And now that Daddy’s working with the county’s education system, we’re all in school every day. Day One Dropped Lil miss off at PreK. She shrugged off my...
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A piece of me.
I started this final project with bottles and bobbles and such. And then I realized I had no connection to these things. So I started arranging again. Cameras and books? That’s more me. My...
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Design 100
Sometimes I wish jargon didn’t exist. Sometimes I wish I had more time to plan a calendar – and keep a schedule. Sometimes I want to be the one who gets it. But root 2 squares and armatures and eyes...
View ArticleGuest Post: I forgive you
Skye is a former student of mine. She’s a writer, a dreamer, a wife, a mother, a sister, and a friend. She’s one I’ll proudly call my J-baby forever. For those who know her, she’s a rainbow in the...
View ArticleTime to apply herself
In 24 hours, the applications for one of the county’s specialty programs will close. The vague online form hardly seems like an adequate assessment tool for determining a child’s scholastic aptitude in...
View ArticleNew year, same school
Welcome back hardly seems like the appropriate greeting at 7 am as my bleary eyed students slowly trudge into class. Some have changed drastically since last I saw them – new hair, new body...
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Week 6, DRAW 101
This weeks SMART goals were twofold. After the difficult first efforts with the pastels in my earthtone assignment, I thought I’d practice layering color. I used pastel pencils, but am finding that...
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Week 8, DRAW 101
The SMART goal for this week was to continue on the practice of creating value, refining facial features, and improving accuracy. Result Analysis – a little progress is better than nothing. The...
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Week 9, DRAW 101
This class has been humbling. There’s a certain amount of pride involved in working hard on a project and presenting it to the world. There’s a fear in showing work in progress and facing criticisms...
View ArticleDRAW 101: Reflections Assignment
Task 1: Reflect on what you have learned in this course (think of your greatest achievements as well as some of the learning challenges you overcame) and set goals for future learning with this fresh...
View ArticleStruggling.
The spring quarter is in full swing. I thought I’d had a bad enough time enduring the intense scrutiny of winter session… then I caught the flu in week one of these classes and quickly discovered...
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Color Theory and Design {Spring 2016}
Color combination studies Camouflage studies (that horrid green square!)
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Interpreting color intent
This was an assigned discussion for my second design class, Color Theory. The goal was to find 5 images with “interesting use of color,” and to interpret how the colors help to convey the message or...
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SEQA 100 – a quick discussion on comic strips and comic books
Asked: “Comic strips have a larger mainstream acceptance in the United States than comic books. More people read a comic strip on a daily basis than read a comic book. They are two very different forms...
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