LIFE - explained in comics, quite often by my Inner Demons.
We started our lesson on Non-Fiction comics with a field trip to Clay Hill Corners Farm in Hartland, VT to talk with Marty Banak and listen in as he was interviewed. He showed us around the amazing farm and his sugar shack (on wheels!). Greenhouses, bees, blueberries, even a little mushroom farm. I kept thinking,...
I've been working on the "Rip-Off comic" - I have to combine the basic story line of the movie "Maze Runner" with my research on trailer parks. My main characters are Thomas, Brianna, Lucy, and Chuck, the cat. Here are my character sketches for a few of them... I...
I did a post on my Beez In the Belfry blog a bit earlier this week about the Artsy Weekend with the Kid - I realized I wanted to show you folks some more stuff from this weekend. I mentioned in that post that Lilah joined the Cartoon Club for kids that meets once a...
I had a great day! Brainstorming and drawing and laughing hysterically. Yep - pretty great in my book. It's pouring rain, but I ran home so I could post all the stuff we learned today while I was still really excited. But I made the STOOPID mistake of opening the Lawyer Envelope first....
One thing I did not foresee is that I am learning cool stuff faster than I can tell you about it! I need to show you a fun little bookbinding thing we learned yesterday, and today we learned all about using a crow quill dip pen... but I think those might need videos - so...
A couple of days before I drove Alex to college, I got an email from the school that the pages for the Summer Anthology were due in a week! Since it wasn't "required" my first instinct was to say - No thanks, I'm way too busy right now! Then...
