Saturday, November 20, 2010

Jane Royal, Alisa Burke and some APPLES!!!

We brought in so many apples from our tree...they are Granny Smith.
We planted them with apple pies in mind...Ergo...a green apple pie...annnd a
"yournmine" (yours and mine) taste test, before company gets here...:))

BOY, that didn't take long, i'm here to say!!!


and then...my friend jane over at:
http://paintedheartstudio.blogspot.com/ showed all of us, how she cleaned up her studio...
she really got me going...in fact this wasn't the only thing revamped...that was on to the next day of cleaning...


i COULD NOT STAND my paint and work table anymore, esp. after miss "tidy" showed and telled!
Annnd i started losing too many things because it was all like ONE BIG CAMOUFLAGE!
welllll........
soooo...on went the white gesso...



YOU, wouldn't have been able to resist this, EITHER! :))




all dried and ready for action...and ya' just know...there is going to be a constant temptation to paint right on this big white canvas (table) that will forever be calling me!!!
i'll let ya' know just how long i last!!!




Alisa Burke, put a little tutoring of little monsters on her blog awhile ago:
http://alisaburke.blogspot.com/ and so i brought this idea to my afterschool kids (this is my paying job) and they dug in!!!! Then i also told them we were going green, recycling all those toilet paper rolls we save...they laughed and ryan piped up with, "well, we'll never run out of these, mrs. miller"...baahhhhhhaaaa






and this was cat day, this is by our little 2nd grader, Alisa...i thought this was marvelous!








and then our little kindergartener, sydney, copied her...
we had another one of those teachable moments...
"look what you've done, alisa, you've taught a kinder how to draw wonderful kitties"!!!" Happy Weekend to my wonderful friends and fellow bloggers!









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7 comments:

  1. jgrNovember 20, 2010 at 6:27 PM

    Well, what a great surprise to find myself in the title of your blog post-even better to be in the company of a true superSTAR Alisa Burke - woeNelly I am flattered!

    Now onto the important really stuff:I love your new gessoed work table and when I went in for a close up I couldn't help but notice the wine ad. hehehe.

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  2. miz katieNovember 20, 2010 at 9:50 PM

    wow..so much going on!! picking, baking, pie eating, cleaning, and kid art. how fabulous!! sounds like you've been a busy little wanda.

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  3. rachel awesNovember 21, 2010 at 4:35 AM

    those kitties
    make
    my heart
    HAPPY!
    the whole post
    is a pile
    of joy.
    xox

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  4. ChrisNovember 21, 2010 at 5:20 PM

    I would be tempted to paint on the table too. Nice to see all your goings on. Have a great week!

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  5. joanneNovember 21, 2010 at 8:43 PM

    ooo the pie... i remember pie... i think i remember pie...

    and OOOOO... that table... oh my... it wouldn't survive around me... it's just too wonderful a surface for painting :) ... maybe you should have a painting party with all your best painting friends... a glass of wine, some paints, and who knows what your table will end up looking like! :)

    xoxox

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  6. artbyjuneNovember 21, 2010 at 11:33 PM

    I love the kitty drawings!!

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  7. Claire KieferNovember 22, 2010 at 7:00 PM

    Alisa's cat is DARLING!!! And speaking of Alisa, I totally saw the toilet paper roll monster thing on Alisa Burke's blog--so cute! I'd definitely use that if I taught younger ones. :)

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