Author Archives: rtsallie
Bean Harvest
This was the first year in a long time that I have planted black beans. The colorful ones are dragon tongue beans. The white ones are brush green bean seeds saved to plant next year.
Light Box Photography
This week’s substitute teaching assignment is photography. Today the intermediate class explored using a light box. Students brought objects from home that are special to them.
Pen Practice
October Gallery
October Notes
Sometimes my scars have a mind of their own. Jamokes ~ an ordinary, unimpressive, or inept person —typically used as a term of mild or joking disparagement for a man. Also spelled jamook, giamoke, and giamope, the term as used for an idiot has also been suggested to derive from a dialectal Italian (Neapolitan orContinue reading “October Notes”
Intermediate Art Project 4
As part of my personal growth in 2022, I am taking an intermediate drawing class at the Rivers School in Weston, Massachusetts. The class is taught by Jeff Nesbit. After spending a couple of weeks drawing parts of a face, project four was to copy two statutes from a National Geographic magazine. What went well?Continue reading “Intermediate Art Project 4”
What stuck with you?
Sixth graders GET IT! I subbed a class today at the Rivers School in Weston, MA, that is studying water and climate change. This is hanging on the door.
Relentless Robin 