My school holiday camp for Veterans Cay was Called Dreams of Flying.

To celebrate Veterans Day, I told my campers about Beulah Fee, my grandmother who taught second grade for forty years.

When I was a girl, she taught me a few drawing tricks like how to draw hills with a road going into the distance.

I had flying pigs on my mind because my friend is trying to launch a business this week. (And it might just be a big success!)

Also, I needed some holiday art for an exhibit on Starbucks on Park St. in Alameda.

So, we added clear white glitter to the pigs and gold to the hills.

In San Francsico, we decorate with pink flamingos with scarves in our yards.

I figured pink pigs are cute too.

Peek at more Pigs Flying and their creators on artyowza flickr.

We made videos when my After-School Class finished their Caring for Pets pictures. Each one made a serious and funny video.

I asked them to pretend they were in the picture. Of course, they liked their funny ones better and gave themselves the giggles.

What a Chore! (13 seconds )

Settle Down! (8 seconds)

Leave it for you! (17 seconds) >Student with Assistant

The Caring for Pets artwork can seen bigger and better on the artyowza flickr site.

I created these little digital painting doodles with an easy online tool at

www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/yourstudio/pai nting/yourstudio.htm

Most days, the way I’m creative is being the art director of my camps and classes.

After we are all cleaned up and it’s almost ready to go home, the kids love to play a game I invented called the Drawing Contest.

Everyone gets  a black pen and a big piece of paper.

I tell them…

1. It’s fun!

2. You’ll be surprised!

3. You have to listen and draw what I say.  After a couple of minutes, I’ll give you the next suggestion.

Ready to play?

Here’s an example:

First, draw  a rocket in the middle of the page

Make sure your rocket has three windows.

Attached to the rocket by a rope is an astronaut

The astronaut is holding hands with a monkey

With the other hand the astronaut is holding a three scoop ice cream cone

On the ground is a jumpy house with three girls inside

On top of the jumpy house is King Kong

A bird eating a snake is sitting on King Kong’s shoulder

Also on the ground draw a rectangle

Inside the rectangle make two mountains  joined by a bridge

A man is bungee jumping off the bridge

Put two different fruits on the mountaintops

Actually, the rectangle is a fishtank!  Add two sharks and a turtle

In the air somewhere, draw three hearts that fit inside each other

Make the heart fly by adding wings

Put high heeled shoes on the flying heart

Finally, add three things to your picture to surprise me and see if I can figure it out!

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Thanks Dirty Footprints Studio for writing a fun post about Scrappers.

….. it made me look in my scrap bin and remember to share the Art Yowza Drawing Contest

I made these out of foamy stickers to show my campers how a variety of shapes can be made into faces. We then pasted the faces on finger puppets.

Look around.  You can see faces in everyday objects.

“Art is the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos.” ~ Saul Bellow

When my campers are playing in the Park, I sit on a bench with this tree behind me.

Caring for Pets!

I’d love for this show to hang at an animal shelter.

I took a walk in the quiet bright.

( Eating at the new Indian Restaurant on Park St.  / Taken with my iphone)

November is the Art Every Day Month Challenge. Thanks Leah!

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