Thursday, December 18, 2008
Easy come easy go
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Stephanie |
Well as you may or may not know I was recently offered a position as a middle school art teacher in a location that I won't mention. Well I was hired as full time with all the benefits retirement salary all that good stuff. Then on my first day they tell me that I'm on a temporary status until the teacher returns. Turns out the regular art teacher may actually come back before the end of the year. They said I'm sorry but "we just don't know"
After thinking it over I just decided to decline the position I just can't risk leaving a house where I'm not paying rent going through all the moving expenses, signing a lease on a place to live, paying out rent all to potentially lose the job if the teacher comes back. It's just too much of a risk.
So when the store closes it's job hunting time. I have several students who have been taking art lessons from me that would like to continue so I'm going to work on that for some extra cash to begin with. Plus I have it on good authority that a local private school may have a budget next year for a full time art teacher. I would prefer that to public school anyway. Or me and Raven may move so he can work a graphic design job. We just don't know yet.
Oh well things will work out they always do.
After thinking it over I just decided to decline the position I just can't risk leaving a house where I'm not paying rent going through all the moving expenses, signing a lease on a place to live, paying out rent all to potentially lose the job if the teacher comes back. It's just too much of a risk.
So when the store closes it's job hunting time. I have several students who have been taking art lessons from me that would like to continue so I'm going to work on that for some extra cash to begin with. Plus I have it on good authority that a local private school may have a budget next year for a full time art teacher. I would prefer that to public school anyway. Or me and Raven may move so he can work a graphic design job. We just don't know yet.
Oh well things will work out they always do.
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Fell Behind
Wow I have not been keeping up with my blog at all. It isn't that I have had stuff to add it is just that I'm always so limited on time.
Plus I have dial up at my house so I pretty much only have access to the internet from the store.
And speaking of the store we are in fact going to close the store in January. We were counting on some really great rent from another location but to be honest the owners of the building kinda screwed us over and gave the spot that was promised us to a real esate agent, and we just can't keep paying 1,000 a month for this tiny spot.
It's really just a matter of bad timing we did pretty good the first year then the bottom fell out of the economy and Lewisburg lost a ton of foot traffic thanks to gas prices, trouble at the Greenbrier, and Bush is a moron who has sent our country into a downward spiral from with there is no escape.
So in the mean time I'm trying to find a job. I went for an interview at a middle school in Oak Hill that was a week ago and I haven't heard anything yet but I don't think they have had a board meeting yet so I'm still hopeful. Other than that I may try to get some sub work if I can get on the list. I did hear that there are some full time art jobs available in the county for teachers who are needing to take a lot of sick days so I got that goin for me.
Plus I have dial up at my house so I pretty much only have access to the internet from the store.
And speaking of the store we are in fact going to close the store in January. We were counting on some really great rent from another location but to be honest the owners of the building kinda screwed us over and gave the spot that was promised us to a real esate agent, and we just can't keep paying 1,000 a month for this tiny spot.
It's really just a matter of bad timing we did pretty good the first year then the bottom fell out of the economy and Lewisburg lost a ton of foot traffic thanks to gas prices, trouble at the Greenbrier, and Bush is a moron who has sent our country into a downward spiral from with there is no escape.
So in the mean time I'm trying to find a job. I went for an interview at a middle school in Oak Hill that was a week ago and I haven't heard anything yet but I don't think they have had a board meeting yet so I'm still hopeful. Other than that I may try to get some sub work if I can get on the list. I did hear that there are some full time art jobs available in the county for teachers who are needing to take a lot of sick days so I got that goin for me.
Monday, May 12, 2008
More from the trip
Hands from the Rodin museum, with a little photoshop
My first trip to China Town
I just really liked the way this lady looked with the red against the green background
Entrance to Rodin
Give it hell Ben!
Darth on the steps
My attempt at getting a good picture of the line to see the star wars exhibit was very nearly
thwarted by this robust woman in front of us. Every time I tried to get a picture she would
lean her girth over the railing and block the shot. Not to mention she was adding to her
annoyance by bitching her husband out for something, while he just stood there with a
please kill me know look on his face.
Well I keep getting errors when I try to upload photos so that's all for this post
Saturday, May 10, 2008
Trip to Philly
After seeing an add in an art magazine for a Frida Kahlo exhibit Raven and I decide to head to Philly for a few days, to not only see Frida but to also take in a few of the sites in the City of Brotherly love.
So here are few of the things that we did.
This may be the smallest motel room I have ever stayed in.
The snack room smelled of urine
Not so much a thermostat as a jumbo thermometer so
you can tell if you need to turn on the heat or the air.
Oh well you get what you pay for it was only 67 a night and at least it was clean.
Photo op at the Franklin, The star wars cast doing a farewell ceremony
for the exhibit in the museum. We will be coming back to for that later.
Raven being held at gun point by stormtrooper
That big fountain, I don't know what it's called
Me and Raven in front of the fountain
Me in front of fountain
Stormtroopers in front of the fountain
STORMTROOPER IN THE FOUNTAIN
Love Park
We got our picture taken by "the fireman" who assured us
"I won't run away with your camera, some do, but I won't"
World's worst job
Raven acquiring knowledge from the giant lady
The Thinker at the Rodin museum
Gates of Hell
more from Rodin
Still more to come!
So here are few of the things that we did.
This may be the smallest motel room I have ever stayed in.
The snack room smelled of urine
Not so much a thermostat as a jumbo thermometer so
you can tell if you need to turn on the heat or the air.
Oh well you get what you pay for it was only 67 a night and at least it was clean.
Photo op at the Franklin, The star wars cast doing a farewell ceremony
for the exhibit in the museum. We will be coming back to for that later.
Raven being held at gun point by stormtrooper
That big fountain, I don't know what it's called
Me and Raven in front of the fountain
Me in front of fountain
Stormtroopers in front of the fountain
STORMTROOPER IN THE FOUNTAIN
Love Park
We got our picture taken by "the fireman" who assured us
"I won't run away with your camera, some do, but I won't"
World's worst job
Raven acquiring knowledge from the giant lady
The Thinker at the Rodin museum
Gates of Hell
more from Rodin
Still more to come!
Saturday, April 19, 2008
A little behind
OK I have been way behind on my post so here are a few things that I have missed putting up on my blog.
Ravens Birthday Cake: I made the Mario and mushroom out of legos.
Punky in the window through a curtain
Supposedly the world smallest parade: St. Patrick's Day
Someone dressed as Patrick
My new dinning room area. My mom picked up they table and chair set at the flea market. Im going to repaint the table but I really like the chairs. She also got the rug from a store in Lewisburg that was going out of business. It turned out pretty cool.
Awww! Look at the baby.
Grocery store in Fairfax
I could never eat anything that looked that much like poop
That's just nuts!...and that joke was lame
what the hell is a digital perm? but man I really want my eyelashes estended
I don't know who Pocari is but I don't want to drink his sweat
This one speaks for itself
I still have a ton more photos but thats enough for now.
Ravens Birthday Cake: I made the Mario and mushroom out of legos.
Punky in the window through a curtain
Supposedly the world smallest parade: St. Patrick's Day
Someone dressed as Patrick
My new dinning room area. My mom picked up they table and chair set at the flea market. Im going to repaint the table but I really like the chairs. She also got the rug from a store in Lewisburg that was going out of business. It turned out pretty cool.
Awww! Look at the baby.
Grocery store in Fairfax
I could never eat anything that looked that much like poop
That's just nuts!...and that joke was lame
what the hell is a digital perm? but man I really want my eyelashes estended
I don't know who Pocari is but I don't want to drink his sweat
This one speaks for itself
I still have a ton more photos but thats enough for now.
Friday, April 18, 2008
Tiger
This is a painting I did last night that I want to donate to the Tiger Mountain Refuge, which is a big cat sanctuary located in WV. It will go to their auction.
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Current Painting
This is a painting that I'm currently working on. I wanted to take a few pictures to show the progression of the painting, but last night I started working and didn't stop till I was almost finished with the background. Keep your eye out for the Bob Ross courage test (I suck at trees).
Monday, March 3, 2008
Art Lesson of the Day
When we last left our prehistoric world we were about to see what the Paleolithic period was all about. Well basically it is split into periods: upper, middle and lower.
Artifacts found from this time period are split this way based on what layer of strata the objects are found in. If they are found in a lower level then they are from the lower Paleolithic period and so on. Check out this scarily accurate illustration of the earths strata.
Obviously the ones found in lower levels are older. In Paleolithic times we see two groups of people the homo habilis "handy man" and the homo sapien "wise man". Home habilis was the first one classified and he mostly just made tools, he didn't so much create things with aesthetics in mind so much as he made items that could actually be used for something.
Next was the homo sapien who moved into Europe, North Africa and Parts of Asia. Here we see the emergence of the Neanderthal who was relatively well developed , they used stone tools and there is evidence that they buried their dead with funerary objects or offerings.
After the Neanderthals we see Cro Magnon, this group I believe is really the first group in history that we can credit with creating art. Cro Magnon man had a social organization which included rituals and beliefs many of which probably lead them to create much of their art. They were also the first prehistoric group to get their own Network TV show.
Artifacts found from this time period are split this way based on what layer of strata the objects are found in. If they are found in a lower level then they are from the lower Paleolithic period and so on. Check out this scarily accurate illustration of the earths strata.
Obviously the ones found in lower levels are older. In Paleolithic times we see two groups of people the homo habilis "handy man" and the homo sapien "wise man". Home habilis was the first one classified and he mostly just made tools, he didn't so much create things with aesthetics in mind so much as he made items that could actually be used for something.
Next was the homo sapien who moved into Europe, North Africa and Parts of Asia. Here we see the emergence of the Neanderthal who was relatively well developed , they used stone tools and there is evidence that they buried their dead with funerary objects or offerings.
After the Neanderthals we see Cro Magnon, this group I believe is really the first group in history that we can credit with creating art. Cro Magnon man had a social organization which included rituals and beliefs many of which probably lead them to create much of their art. They were also the first prehistoric group to get their own Network TV show.
Friday, February 29, 2008
Art Lesson of the Day
I have decided that I need to brush up on my art history. When I was in college I had art history classes but there was so much info to cover that I pretty much just learned enough to pass a tests. I have for a while now committed myself to read my entire art history book. This is quite a huge task because this book weighs about 10 pounds, no joke. 
Also my reading comprehension is horrible so just reading it does me absolutely no good seeing as how I will just forget it anyway. So I have to read, take notes and at the same time I will attempt to put into my own words what I have read to get it even more into my brain or so I hope. Plus it is just something to put in my blog.
So no better place to start that with Prehistory, more specific prehistoric Europe.
Obviously the info from this time period is extremely speculative. There is no way that anyone can really know why people from this time period did the things they did or made the things they made.
Prehistory is pretty much lumped into a huge chunk of time that spans over thousands of years so the exact dates of thing really aren't that exact again just best guesses from people a lot smarter than me.
The Stone Age is pretty much what we call the period of thousands of years that we really don't know too much about because...well it was a long damn time ago.
It was given the name Stone Age because of the fact that so many of the items found from this time were made of stone like tools, weapons and figures. Such as the tools pictured above, though I don't know how exactly they know these are tools from the stone age when they look much like any rock that I have ever found in my yard.
The Stone age is then divided into two periods Paleolithic and Neolithic which quite simply means old stone and new stone.
On the next history of the day we shall learn all about the mind blowing world of the Paleolithic.
Also my reading comprehension is horrible so just reading it does me absolutely no good seeing as how I will just forget it anyway. So I have to read, take notes and at the same time I will attempt to put into my own words what I have read to get it even more into my brain or so I hope. Plus it is just something to put in my blog.So no better place to start that with Prehistory, more specific prehistoric Europe.
Obviously the info from this time period is extremely speculative. There is no way that anyone can really know why people from this time period did the things they did or made the things they made.
Prehistory is pretty much lumped into a huge chunk of time that spans over thousands of years so the exact dates of thing really aren't that exact again just best guesses from people a lot smarter than me.
The Stone Age is pretty much what we call the period of thousands of years that we really don't know too much about because...well it was a long damn time ago.
It was given the name Stone Age because of the fact that so many of the items found from this time were made of stone like tools, weapons and figures. Such as the tools pictured above, though I don't know how exactly they know these are tools from the stone age when they look much like any rock that I have ever found in my yard.
The Stone age is then divided into two periods Paleolithic and Neolithic which quite simply means old stone and new stone.
On the next history of the day we shall learn all about the mind blowing world of the Paleolithic.
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