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Pointing my iphone camera  into the sun at 4:3o pm.

The image really surprised me.

My campers were here the day before Thanksgiving for Rockstar Camp.

We mix free play outside with studio time inside.

Which image is more magical, fierce and charismatic?   

Click here to see the wild rock star slideshow!

Featuring!

Hot Lava Girls, The Polkadot Girls, The Soul Takers, The Airheads, The Hard Rockers, The Angles Deviled, The Red Devils, The Angels and the Green Gremlins

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

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

I caught this on the drive down from the Oakland Hills with my iphone camera.

This swirl sits in the middle of my studio tables.  A strong center with branches.

The swirl is pushed out by motion.  (I like to shoot pictures as a passenger of momentum)

After the kids go home, I play with the open unused paint.

I added more dots..

to this.

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