Post 504

I've made over 500 posts!

Here are three more that I need to water color yet. Not sure if I'm going to get caught up on that. Wait! I've got one more day of school. Maybe I'll get caught up sooner than I thought!

I'm trying to make my entries the same size, just like American Elf and Spina Doodles. It's working out nicely and should allow me to fit in photographs from the day next to the drawings.

Black eye...

My black eye has become much more significant since the last picture I posted. Not quite sure why, but it has turned all kinds of black and blue. I'll post another picture soon. It's awesome!

Dangerous buttons...

 I ended up getting a bit of a black eye. Everybody's going to think I got in a fight at the protests!

Madison Rotunda...

This blog is not meant to be a political forum, but being a teacher in Wisconsin, it's hard not to think about anything else.

Three hour school board meeting

Not one of my best visual drawings, but I made myself draw it and post it because I need to get comfortable drawing in public. I had people all around me and my wife said I was all hunched over. People were probably paying me more attention because I was being all secretive.

Anyway, this was done at a school board meeting in my wife's school district where they are facing the problem of being $2,000,000 over budget for next school year. Nuts. After three hours I think they decided to have a referendum in April. It was a long meeting with many interesting perspectives. My brain is now mush. Goodnight.

1/2 day left....

School Sketchbook...

Haven't drawn in my school sketchbook in a while. This year's group has been so much better than last year's. Even two days before winter break, these kids aren't freaking out yet. Amazing.

Kids...

Teaching provides an endless source of blog posts. Those are multicolored casts by the way.

On the road to finishing...

It's getting finished, but in a slightly out of order manner. Brace yourselves.

Fooled...

Gorilla me...

Christine: You should have drawn the kids as kittens.
Me: But kittens aren't kittenly. Squirrels are squirrelly.
Christine: Groan.

Whoops...

I knew it would happen eventually, but I was really hoping I would escape it. I was trying to watch "Dog the Bounty Hunter" and write in pen a the same time. Didn't work. Messed up and completely wrote the wrong thing. I'll have to try and fix it tomorrow.

Didn't mess this one up. Will water color tomorrow.

It's fun drawing myself as some huge hulking gorilla when in actuality I'm one of the frailest, skinniest runners around.

Watercolor...

Whew! (Wiping sweat from my brow.) All caught up. The weekend is a great thing.

First Day of School...

Yikes. Hands. Need to practice those a little more.

All caught up... again...

Eight months on daily posts, come and gone. Wild.

Late night drawing...

Had to use my wife's iphone again since we're out of town. Just a quick drawing today of one of my students getting hit in the head by some eraser bits. Two weeks left.

What about bananas...

An actual conversation I had with a student today.
Needless to say he wasn't able to turn his behavior around.

Emma...

Emma, our cat, inspires our insanity.

Donkey Basketball...

Played Donkey Ball today. Yes, rode a donkey and tried to shoot some hoops. It was an experience.

Coloring day...

Colored in some old drawings.