Kids, don't try this at home!

 The first day I worked on this painting I did not wear gloves and ended up with paint up to my elbows.

It's so much fun to get in there and paint with your hands as the paint brush. Takes me back to the days of finger painting as a child.

This isn't your water soluble, basically edible paint though.

Update

I made it into the final round of judging! My painting has been sent off to Salt Lake, with the help of some friends of my mother-in -law, and has officially arrived at the LDS Church Art Museum. I so grateful that they could take it and I didn't have to mail it. I'm sure it would have cost upwards of $100 to mail it. And a side note about getting things framed. Don't try to do it over the holidays as all the framers are on vacation and leave yourself a solid three weeks to have one made if you are going that route. As you can guess I fell into these two traps and almost didn't have a frame for my painting. With a lot of luck and searching seven stores I found a pre-made one that worked pretty darn good. Whew! Now I have to wait to hear if I got judged in to have my painting displayed at the museum....and then I wait to hear it I won anything. I think I will know the end results by April or March. I'm so excited! =)

Student Art Show

            In November we had our first Student Art Show at the Learning Foundation and Performing Arts Charter School, where I work as their art teacher/ bus driver. I teach an elective class of Junior High and High School Students and I do special projects with the 4th - 6th graders. It's a relatively small school being K-12 and only about 300 students. So, as a result, we decided to include the whole school in the art show. Any student who wanted to enter a piece could. We had just over 200 entries. Not bad! We also had a viewers choice award contest so the students could have the chance to win prizes and, we had a silent auction. The silent auction was designed as a fundraiser for the art department as we get very little from the school for the art classes. We were a little nervous at how well the show would go since it was the first one we had ever had but, it was quite well received. We had a lot of people come and awesome support when it came to the silent auction. All the pieces that were up for auction were sold! Yay! We are looking forward to doing another Art Show this spring as well and making it even better than the last one!