My day job is still spinning like a top, keeping me busy and happy and overwhelmed with details but since it also includes watching a ton of kids make a ton of art, I can't say I mind. I'm just losing track of what day it is and which way is up. The teachers and teachers assistants and volunteers are all amazingly good with the kids, creative, and able to solve problems quickly but somehow the last week of summer is always, always the LOUDEST, the boldest, quite possibly the funnest...not only because we have a 9 and 5 quarters year old visitor.
In the art camp this week and in her pajamas in my studio right now is our talented red-headed neice, Nora. Who says, "well, my week has been wonderful and I'm looking forward for the rest of the week and next time I come." (and we didn't pay her to say that - and now she's giggling!) She is visiting for a week and so we are constantly learning new things, playing, laughing, enjoying kid-hood vicariously through her.
Above is one of the two of my designs which were just approved for the Stop! Look! Art! project in my neighborhood in Rochester. That means I will be painting two traffic signal boxes, both of which are on my route to work and both of which are currently covered with wheatpasted ads and graffiti. More about that as it unfolds, I tell ya. I'm excited.
take care,
Rachael