Final 4 of TLC Mizzle Auction

Two postings in one day? I know! I'm just as surprised, but I had to share with all of you the latest in the TLC Mizzle Auction.  Here are the last four characters I promised to complete.  I introduced them to the staff and students today.  So far, Ernest H.M. Way is in the lead with $27, but things could always change by tomorrow.  It is so sad to see them go.  I have become attached to all of them, but I'm happy to have received the great response my staff and students had to my creations.  In the end, they will go off to great homes, inspire creativity, and hopefully, storytelling, and all of the proceeds will go to a great cause.  AND I will have slowly put more of my work out in the world, slowly conquering it one Mizzle at a time. ;) 

Meet Ernest H.M Way

He is a bibliophile, who is mostly attracted to Romance Sci-fi novels.  He spends his time living in the world created in his mind.  In his spare time, he creates miniatures of the worlds from the books he reads and showcases them at Comic-con.  In his free time, he enjoys bench pressing the air, since that is all his strength can handle.

Meet Dr. Whoknowsit

He is an expert at rainbow construction with a Ph.D. in B.S-ing (I'm pretty sure we attended the same university).  He loves to get into philosophical debates with Leprechauns.  His hobbies consist of mixing paint, running with scissors, and adding fake words to Urbandictionary.com.

Meet Alizarin or “Ali”

She is a very crafty person, who loves to knit and crochet.  She is known mostly for the scarves she makes, but is one of the best yarn bombers in New Mexico.  In her free time, she loves playing in Rugby tournaments. A true egotist, she loves everything about herself.  She has even named every single stripe on her body.  Her favorite stripe is Larry, which is the 7^th stripe on left ear.

Meet Shaneera

She is an amazon queen from the Bronx.  She is fluent in gibberish.  She loves doing interpretive dance for the blind, but her dream is to re-enact the entire 80’s movie Flash Dance as a solo performance. In her spare time, she loves to read about worms and their ecosystem.  She one day hopes to cure Arachibutyrophobia, a phobia related to the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth, through dancing.

Daily drawing

I've learned that the email feature will post one image attachment. I tried posting my drawings but it didn't work. Here is one drawing. I began working on something else yesterday so I did 2 drawings today to make up for it. It was inspired by the recent increase in storytelling.

Storytelling and the Self Portrait

Yesterday, I had my students begin to share stories of their childhood.  This is an activity I began doing with my students last year in order to get them thinking about various things to incorporate into their self portrait other than the obvious "likes" and "dislikes."  It seems to help them remember the small details that they so easily overlook. Self Portraits are not an easy thing to create.  High School students have an especially difficult time with this assignment because they want to be extremely literal with no reference to history or culture.  Hopefully with all of the questions and stories they are asked to think about and share they will explore outside the boundaries of the literal. 

The self portrait can effectively tell one's story visually when done with thought, insight, and honesty.

Today I was going over my calendar of events and lesson plans.  I exhausted myself just looking at it.  I could think of nothing more than making time to relax, although, I'm not exactly sure when that will be.  At least I can live vicariously through my drawings.