another batch - altered books in progress...

It's the Cheshire Cat, and here's the rabbit hole inside this book.
When it's complete, Alice will be falling in......


And this is a phone book (obviously) but when you open it up, it is all solidly glued together with a secret compartment inside. (Aah, the magic of ModPodge...)
Nobody would ever know it's not just a phone book until it the cover is lifted.


And here's a couple other works-in-progress...

And finally, before I forget - for those of you who might be interested, my Ben is safely and happily about 8000 miles away in South Africa, and I am now worry free. It was a tough couple of days.

Me and My Shadow - by grade 2

This was an easy lesson, taking just 2 art class periods.
We started by reading the poem My Shadow by Robert Louis Stevenson, from A Child's Garden of Verses, a personal favorite of mine.



We talked about why your shadow gets longer later in the day. Each student drew themselves, and cut them out with a matching shadow of black or gray paper.

Then came the fun part. We cut the shadows and s-p-r-e-a-d them out to glue them, to make them longer, coloring in the spaces in between. We added backgrounds, and these were our results!