Art for the Hope Elementary Faculty

We were asked to conduct a few art workshops for the elementary and high school faculty at Hope. These are landscapes taught by Niño G. based on "Painting for Dummies". Simple technique, lots of fun! All the teachers had smiles on their faces by the end of the 1-hour session, even though they entered the art room with much reluctance.

4 Little Indians!

We made headdresses as an art project and they were awesome fun! We practiced cutting and pasting, managing the shapes formed and allowed the kids to explore tearing and being random in their design. Yey!

Storm story

These are pictures of our neighbor's house when the flood was just getting started and when it was getting dangerous. You can see the progress of the flood waters especially when they reached the roof of our neighbor's house. The first photo on the left is the second story window of our other neighbor. By then the water was in the first floor of the house. I didn't take pictures inside the house, but if you can imagine your family refrigerator bobbing in the water bumping the walls of your house...well...thats how it was. For 12 hours. It wasn't traumatic. It just made us realize the we were lucky to be dry, safe. And that we had helped strangers be dry and safe as well.

Lyra's "Old Pain" exhibit

So she's my best friend and yes, I got to be her "model" for some paintings..but her work is brilliant nevertheless. I love her colors, her skill and eye for detail as well as her composition. Beautiful! Congratulations Lyr! Read about a commentary of her show written by Ima Guerrero at http://imaguer.wordpress.com/2009/09/20/old-pain/

Yey! Got an email the other day. People have read my book, my simple book. Hahahaha! I'm so happy! http://www.myebook.com/index.php?option=ebook&id=4624