create a journal page that represents the 1st day of school.....

this for me was an easy challenge since school starts tomorrow for the students in my district....I am a middle school art teacher in the town I live....I believe that I have the best job in the whole school....To go to work and teach students to do things that I love is a treat......I was trying to do 2 things at the same time on this challenge since my time these days has been limited....so I created a page that I will use in another way and you will see as we move on.....

I started painting a mat board with some of my favorite colors......

  

I punched circles in some of my favorite scrap book pages.......

then outlined them with sharpie markers.......and then cut those circle down the center....

I hot glued them down on the dried painted mat  board....

I inserted the board into a vintage frame that I spray painted glossy black....

I gathered some of my favorite supplies.......

 

and glued them down as a mixed media collage page. This framed piece now hangs on my class room door to welcome all my new art students tomorrow for the first day of class.

create a journal page that represents the 1st day of school.....

This week's challenge was from Laura McHugh East. She's a teacher and this was her week to go back to school, so we are seeing summer vacation coming to an end and starting to look at school time.

I've been super busy with vacation and so many other things that I decided to do my challenge using Photoshop.

I bought this cool little journal awhile back. I haven't written in it because it is about 100 pages - each a different paper. I wanted to save the pages to be able to scan them, just in case I needed a sheet of graph paper or braille paper.

The notebook had a page of that paper they give you in grade school to practice your handwriting.

I scanned it, cropped it, and then used a font in Photoshop called School House Cursive to write an entry on the journal page. By the way, it was really bizarre that the other page of my scan was graph paper from a company that does the same kind of consulting engineering I do right here in San Francisco, and I know them!

I heard somewhere the other day that schools are no longer teaching cursive writing. Kids that get cards from grandparents have been asking their parents to read them for them.

Unbelievable!