"Beauty is not caused. It is." ~Emily Dickinson

Here is a monochromatic caricature I did of poet Emily Dickinson in oil pastel during my Painting class.

Has anybody seen my good friend Bobby?

Once again, I'm teaching middle school students about color, using oil pastels. This portrait of Robert Kennedy was made with only orange and blue (complementary colors) and black and white.

Oil Pastel in Analogous Colors

The picture of mental health

Red, Blue, Black, and White oil pastels on paper. I'd been teaching 4th graders about Van Gogh but I can see lots of Picasso, Matisse, and Klee influences here too. Plus, it's pretty obvious that I could use some Prozac or something.

Bully

Been talking to 4th, 5th, and 7th graders about complimentary colors and made this oil pastel painting

Works in progress

Here is the oil pastel self portrait that I did with 7th Grade Art. I can't decide if it is done or not and if not, what it needs to make it finished.

Here is the drawing I'm working on of Harry Truman. Kids thought it looked like Donald Rumsfeld, yikes. "Who's Harry Truman?" Double yikes, you ask your History teacher. I know this one is a long way off, but at least that lower right hand quadrant is getting close.

Edvard Munch- style painting

Here's my Munch style painting. I guess I could've made it more sinister by making it darker ot making her a vampire or a temptress or something, but I wanted to make it school-appropriate since I'm the teacher, I think that would be going over-board and kind of trite, and I used a photo of my artist goddaughter and I already enlarged her head and changed her eyes from brown to pale blue so I just couldn't bring myself to make her too much more weird.

Self portrait. Oil Pastel on paper. March 2005
Mallory

Cactus, oil pastel on board, 1998
Mallory

If I were Van Gogh. Oil pastel on canvas board, 2004. "It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all to prudent." ~ Vincent Van Gogh

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