ELEPHANT

Ele

Meredith Rogers

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Art in the making

This is the drawing I created, i was trying to think of a project for my 7th graders that incorporated the element of line.

This is what i came up with and then i started a painting....it is still a work in progress.

chuckle

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Ryan McGinness
Art History Is Not Linear

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This inspired me

I love the movement and the color

It makes me want to slide on my flip flops and head to the beach

Summer Vacation

I will be here in under 2 months!
Austria, Italy and France.
Let the count down begin!

BUTT CHIN

I have lived for 26 years without giving to much thought into the shape of my chin until yesterday. Tuesday, April 6th 2010 the day that one of my 7th grade students made the comment, "you have a butt chin!"

My initial reaction was confusion, was that compliment or an insult?

So i have done some research:

A butt chin is most commonly referred to as a Cleft chin, this is what Wikipedia says:

The terms cleft chin,[1] chin cleft[2], dimple chin,[3] a chin dimple[1], or a butt chin[1] indicate to a dimple on the chin. It is a Y-shaped fissure on the chin with an underlying bony peculiarity.[4] The chin fissure follows the fissure in the lower jaw bone resulted from the incomplete fusion of the left and right halves of the jaw during the embryonal and fetal development.[1]
This is an inherited trait in humans, where the dominant gene causes the cleft chin while the recessive genotype presents without a cleft. However, it is also a classic example for variable penetrance[5] with environmental factors or a modifier gene possibly affecting the phenotypical expression of the actual genotype.

This still didn't really answer any questions for me, i was looking for something along the lines of, a butt chin indicates high intelligence...dang!

Oh well, i guess having a butt chin is better then having a butt face...

Inspiring

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

Pablo Picasso

Newpaper Structures

ART ON A DIME

My 7th graders are building newspaper structures. Its newspaper rolled into tubes, stacked and tied with string.
I will post a picture of the 150 newspaper structures hanging from the ceiling of my art room...