Iroquois Middle School, Niskayuna NY

10/12

Basically, just as the song goes, second verse, same as the first. Second period 8th graders started glazing, third period 7th graders continued their sculptures, everyone got a gessoing demo (ahh, I love the smell of gesso in the morning, good thing I'm a painter!), the fifth and seventh period sixth graders continued work on their drawings and the sixth period sixth graders got the same demo on Van Gogh's implied texture as the periods before and after them got the day before. the difference is, I didn't stay past 2:15 because Bryce, who is the girls' soccer coach had an away game he had to prepare for in the meantime and would be leaving the property to do so.

I decided to do my own sketch of the Joseph Cornell inspired relief sculptures the students where doing. Many of them made I-Pods and although I don't own one myself, considered it representative of technology. I included a music note, because I enjoy music, a paint brush because I am an artist (and painter) a quick sketch of my family, a television, a sketch of my boyfriend, a sketch of my cat, books (because they are becoming more and more important as well as expensive as my time at Sage progresses, a computer where I write most of my papers for school, and a graduation cap because I graduated high school with my grandfather (that was a special day for me), my mother handed me my leatherette envelope at my bachelor's graduation and I will be the first one of my grandmother's 12 grandchildren (I am the third youngest) to get higher then a bachelors (of which I believe that there is only one other grandchild) on the other side of my family, education is very important as well, my grandfather went to Cornell (for art history/architecture) and Yale (seminary) and my aunt is working on her PhD.