tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64197704271140241662024-03-05T19:25:16.656-05:00East Coast ArtistArt, musings, recipes and other ridiculousness from painter, Katie Wall Podracky. To see my art, visit www.katiewallart.com or follow me on instagram @katie_podrackyKatiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03149605770285683553noreply@blogger.comBlogger107125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6419770427114024166.post-53867943735982468942020-03-26T13:31:00.000-04:002020-03-26T13:31:41.896-04:00Coronavirus Escape: Burnside Island for Guilford Park Pre-school and social distancing ART WALK in New Irving Park<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I don't know about you, but I'm getting a little stir-crazy at home. This weekend (Saturday, March 28) from 10 a.m.- 12 p.m., we are having a neighborhood Art Walk in New Irving Park. If you live here, come on outside and walk around to see if you can spot the artists who make this place our home! Check the New Irving Park neighborhood Facebook page for details. We are going to set up art in our driveways and you're welcome to take a peek. Kids can join by making their own art to display- really anyone who wants to display can jump in the game! Please do! The more the merrier. This is intended to be a fun distraction from the Coronavirus pandemic. Feel free to say hi and chat with us- but let's keep that social distancing in place for everyone's safety. <br />
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You can see this painting (and several others) in person and make a bid once the Guilford Park Pre-School silent auction website is up and running. Check it out! I'll share the bidding website once it's available (definitely by April 1st).<br />
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Check out my time-lapse video of how I painted this piece earlier in March.<br />
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KatieKatiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03149605770285683553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6419770427114024166.post-10991350835678464282019-08-08T15:14:00.003-04:002019-08-08T15:14:40.808-04:00<b>Fall Art Lessons 2019</b><br />
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Hi Parents! I have options for both elementary and middle school students this fall on Thursday afternoons. Here are the sessions. If you'd like to join, just message me and you can reserve a spot for your student. Space is limited, so please let me know as soon as you can. I'll send you the details. Thank you!<br />
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<b>Holiday Art: Gingerbread and Mooseltoes! </b>Would you rather have a holly garland or some snazzy ornaments on your moose? Either way, he will be ready for the holidays! Paint two beautiful creations with me for some holiday fun.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Holiday Art: German sparkly Putz house</b>. Do you know what a Putz house is? It’s a beautiful tiny home made from cardboard, paint, glue and of course- glitter. We are going to create miniature masterpieces that will sparkle all the way into the new year!<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">I need your help.</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> It’s hard for me to say that because I don’t like to ask anyone for anything. But you see, my daughter has a rare disease and I can’t cure it alone. Together we might be able to make some real progress. If you know me at all, you know this disease has turned my world upside down. Trying to figure out the puzzle of how to nourish my child has baffled me, consumed me and made my soul both shrink and swell. It has given me a purpose like you wouldn’t believe. I never thought I’d be the mother of a child with a rare disease, much less a disease that precluded her from eating healthy food or most any food for that matter. I was afraid of many other things while I was pregnant. What blindsided me was the diagnosis that came months later. I had no idea that a disease like this existed, but what still tears me apart the most is that there is little to no science to help me navigate this nightmare. We can change that together. We can change that today. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> “I think it’s FPIES” our pediatrician said at the 6-month wellness visit. He asked me how solid food was going and I just replied “It’s not,” and laughed nervously. We had been through the wringer with a difficult pregnancy marked with lots of vomiting, strange problems and an infancy that was riddled with colic, non-existent sleep and profuse foul diapers. I just thought everyone’s experience was like that. At two months old, I took our daughter in to the pediatrician again because she screamed for three hours straight. She was covered in eczema. She was spitting up 5 or 6 times after every two- hour feeding. She couldn’t fall asleep (obviously) and I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking what everyone was thinking. Babies are always hard. Babies never sleep. Babies spit up a lot. Babies have weird diapers. Babies cry. <b><i>Yes, all that is true, but this was different and exponential in the nature of difficulty. I now have a name for it. It’s called FPIES.</i></b> You pronounce it <i>Eff Pies</i>. The name is amusingly appropriate. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Around the 2-month mark, Georgia had several seizure-like events that I now know are called Sandifer’s syndrome. My husband called me home the first time I left the house to get a break. I was having dinner with friends and I still remember the panic in his voice and the painful cries of my daughter in the background. This was the hardest time, until the next time it was the hardest time, and the next after that. Sandifer’s syndrome is caused from excessive reflux that is so painful it makes infants writhe and jerk their heads back in seizure like movements. She was allergic to foods that I consumed and my breastmilk left her in pain. Around the same time, her stomach became grotesquely bloated and her belly button went from an innie to an outie almost overnight. That was an umbilical hernia, but it was protruding because of inflammation in her gastrointestinal tract. Terrified, I took her to the pediatrician and all I could say was</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span><b style="font-size: 10.5pt;">“I know there’s something wrong, but I don’t know what it is.”</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Luckily he believed me the first time. Other FPIES families don’t always have the same luck. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">We were initially diagnosed with cow’s milk protein allergy and I was instructed to cut dairy and soy out of my diet. After a few days with no improvement, I was radically in need of some help, so I switched her to Nutramigen formula and that worked wonders within 24 hours. Later we would lose this formula too, but at the time it was a life-saver. Some FPIES mothers drastically alter their diet to continue to nurse their babies. They lose so much weight that their own physicians worry about their health. Because</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">any </b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">food can be an FPIES trigger and we have to eat multiple times every day the experience is like tiptoeing through a mine-field. I’m glad I tried the formula. I never would have been able to cut out all her trigger foods from my diet while breastfeeding. It took me over a year to find out that she could only eat eggs, broccoli, olive oil and salt, and the broccoli was an addition that came months after the other safe foods. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">We wouldn’t hear about FPIES or have a true diagnosis for several more months. Some families don’t get a diagnosis for years. I felt strange when I first heard it. Eff pies? Hmm that sounds funny. <b>It stands for Food Protein Induced Enterocolitis Syndrome</b>. But to me, it stands for <b>Food Poison is In Everything, Sweetheart</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Usually the next question we get is a disbelief of “How did you know?” It wasn’t easy, but every time we fed our daughter, she got sick—<i>really sick. </i>She got so sick that she was vomiting and dry heaving for DAYS. My super active giggly mischievous baby would lay on the carpet in our bedroom lethargic with her face down on the Fisher Price playmat. <b><i>“It’s just a virus,” </i></b>they told us at the pediatrician’s office when we brought her in three times one week. <b><i>“It’s probably not over yet. I can hear gurgling noises with the stethoscope.”</i></b> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">It’s a cruel diagnosis attached to a strange tiny glimmer of hope that may or may not magically happen for my daughter. I cling to that hope with all that I have because like any parent I want a life for my children that is free from the burden of a chronic disease. I want a fairytale ending to this tragedy. I want to buy my girl a Starbucks drink of her choice one day when she’s old enough for coffee and look back and think to myself. “Thank God that’s over.” For now, I bury most of our troubles deep in my heart and repeat this script fairly frequently: <b>“It’s okay. We’re doing okay. I have learned how to navigate this and maybe she will outgrow it.” </b>These words are true, and our lives are good and full of joy much of the time. But things could be a lot easier. I say those words to people I meet who have offered something like a lollipop or a popsicle to my child that I now have to turn down for her safety. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">My heart aches every day with a strange pain that I can’t describe very well. Then I feel tremendous guilt because yes, it could always be worse and</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">“maybe she will outgrow it.” </b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">I have lightly comforted strangers with my words and my smile when my soul was cringing because my child is sick and nobody can help me figure out how to make it better or even keep her safe. Somewhere I read another FPIES mother’s account of what life was like at this phase. She said “It is hard to put into words how difficult it is to have a child who is allergic to most food.” I agree with her. I have done the research. I have read everything I could get my hands on. I know many children outgrow FPIES—In fact most outgrow this. But more than anyone else, I also know that</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">there are children that do not outgrow this disease</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">I know this because I hear their stories too. </b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">My daughter has a severe case of FPIES illustrated by the fact that at age two, she can only eat four ingredients. I want so badly for us to be in that percentage that outgrows it, but our case doesn’t always look like the other cases and I worry constantly. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">I want my daughter to enjoy the simple pleasure of a North Carolina tomato sandwich on kid-friendly Sunbeam bread with the crusts cut off. I want her to know it tastes even better by a swimming pool and magnitudes better when you call it by its true name, ‘</span><i style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">mater sandwich</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">. I want to offer her a taste of the creamy pimento cheese that her grandparents sold at their grocery store for 35 years before she was born. Never mind that she might call it “yucky.” Even that would bring me joy. I want the luxury of being able to offer her food from my dinner plate or to go out to eat and have her order off the menu. </span><i style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">You mean to tell me some people get to go out to eat and don’t have to pack special food for their children? </i><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">I want that. I want her to be able to bite a juicy red strawberry from Rudd farm out on Hicone Road. I want to host a cookie decorating party like my mother did for the neighborhood posse of children. I want to give her a popsicle that isn’t just plain ice, </span><i style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">again.</i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">I had to keep her away from the dried bean sensory bin I made for our son before I understood the wrath of FPIES. I had to hold her, wiggling and squirming, <b>all the time </b>to keep her away from the crumbs on the floor at playdates and the broken goldfish on the ground at the park that might poison her body. <i>My daughter did not want to be held</i>. She wanted freedom to play. She fought me from holding her <b>all the time</b>. I could never let my guard down because those insignificant crumbs littered by other innocent toddlers really could hurt her. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Speaking of crumbs, I’d really love to be able to make some kind of bread for her. Do you know the cloud bread recipe floating around Pinterest? Yes, I’d like to cook that, or maybe something with almond flour or quinoa. We failed those foods too. <b>In my wildest dreams I’d like to be able to feed my child a birthday cake. I’m not even talking about a cake with all normal ingredients like butter, flour and Dixie Crystal sugar. That might be too much to hope for. A homemade slightly lopsided cake I make with alternative flours, some kind of sweetener and coconut icing would flip my joy scales and hers to the max. Is that too much to ask? </b><b><i>Maybe she will outgrow it.</i></b> <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Instead, for her birthday cake I painted a hat box and put a plastic toy inside. She loved it, but she also watched her older brother eat cake. You see, this diagnosis means that most food gives my daughter a delayed allergic reaction that doesn’t look like the allergic reactions we are used to. It might take 2 hours or a month for the trigger food to start inflaming her intestinal tract. By a month in I mistakenly thought many foods were safe. Our pediatric allergist and immunologist who works with a significant population of FPIES patients advised me to try a food for 4 days and if she seemed fine, the food was probably safe. That wasn’t true for us.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Physicians don’t have the information they need because this disease hasn’t even been characterized to understand the full spectrum of the disorder.</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">If I don’t find and stop the poison masquerading as my homemade apple sauce, Georgia could vomit to shock with repeat exposure. For us, repeat exposures escalate in severity. Every single time I try an ingredient, it gets worse and worse with each exposure. Some FPIES specialists tell parents to push through symptoms. Some don’t even believe in the existence of this disease or in the various presentations of it. Believe me, it’s real. We have tried over 40 foods in the past year and a half. There are 52 weeks in a year. You do the math. FPIES looks like a stomach virus that spans years, not weeks. <i>Years</i>. None of our food trials were safe for her except eggs, salt, olive oil, and broccoli. <b>Following the advice of our specialists made my child sicker. I can’t blame them. They are genuinely working to the best of their abilities with the information they have. They don’t know how to help either. The science doesn’t exist yet.</b> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">The foods I have trialed are healthy and simple. They are foods like apples, grapes, quinoa, coconut, avocado, banana, corn, rice, potato, pear, spinach, cauliflower, strawberries, watermelon, cantaloupe, green beans, carrots, rice, mangoes, and broccolini. I have not found a single grain or fruit she can enjoy. We get excited. We try a food. She loves it. Her symptoms begin. We try to keep going. We fail. We clean up. We rest. She begs for the food we can’t give her. We do it all again. Now I am just tired and frustrated. <b>What I wouldn’t give for a medical test to identify a few more ingredients to feed my baby.</b>My God I have tried <i>so hard.</i> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">One time I used pink Himalayan salt on her food instead of the regular corn-free salt that I purchased. I did it intentionally because her salt is non-iodized and I know iodine is essential for health in trace amounts. I worry about her nutrition all the time, so this is a normal thought for me. I sprinkled some pink Himalayan salt on her eggs. The vomiting started that night. <i>Did she get something by accident? Did I use a different brand of eggs? Does that matter? Did she eat a crumb off the floor? Did I use the bagged frozen broccoli instead of the fresh broccoli today? Does that matter? Did she get a piece of cat food again? (Yes, this happens) </i>I figured it out. The vomiting stopped. Another time I bought the wrong brand of olive oil in a pinch at the grocery store. It was blended with a cheaper kind of oil. Vomiting. <b>You can’t fool my girl. She’s more sensitive than the princess and the pea.</b> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Last year we took the minivan to Hanging Rock, Tweetsie Railroad, and the beach. They’re joyful times. I post happy pictures. We legitimately have a blast. But every time we eat in the car, I hand my son a chicken nugget and I forget to clean my hands thoroughly. Then I touch my daughter’s food without thinking, handing it back to her in the car-seat. Two hours later she projectile vomits in the car. The only reason I know what triggers this is because it happened to us so many times that I finally put the pieces together. Now here comes the fun part for FPIES parents. <i>Was it the flour, the chicken, the oil it was fried in? Was it some additive? </i>Welcome to the FPIES game! The only way to know what triggered it is to eventually pick one of these things, feed it to her and wait. No thank you. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Now we use a fork to feed her in the car. She pulls the food off the fork and throws it on the floor. It is another kind of game. Over and over I throw away the food we carefully make for her because she contaminates it. We make more safe food. She eats some of it but she is tired of eggs and broccoli. My house smells like broccoli and hard-boiled eggs all the time. Yummy. My daughter likes to smear the egg yolks onto things. Things like carpet and upholstery. I get frustrated. I clean it up. Again. Why is it so hard? I wish I could give her some Cheerios. <b>This is what an FPIES diagnosis looks like.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">So why am I revealing our struggles? After all, there are much worse things than FPIES and sincerely, I know it. My life is wonderful and I am content. Do I want pity or attention? No. Do I need encouragement? No, but I am seriously grateful for all the help and kindness we have received in relation to this diagnosis. I am intensely proud of how we have handled this hard thing. I was strong before I became a mother, but now I know the depths of what I will do to care for my children. I bet you know those depths too because you have your own struggles. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">This post is about sharing our story in the hopes that we can make it better for those that come after us on this slog through an FPIES diagnosis. The words that I have both loathed and clung to over the past two years are “Maybe she will outgrow it.” But now I am tired of hearing that because it means that </span><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">nobody knows how to help us.</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> Coming from physicians, it means there’s hope but there’s nothing else we can do for you at this time.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">That’s not good enough for my Georgia or any of these children.</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Come walk with us. Please donate. Your contribution can have a direct impact right now. Let me explain. FPIES research is scarce. We can make a difference simply with targeted funding and awareness. Here are my goals for the first Greensboro Walk for FPIES:</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Create an affordable and accessible test to identify safe foods and trigger foods.</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Identify the root cause of FPIES. Is it genetic? Is it environmental? Is it both?</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Ensuring that future families with FPIES don’t feel so helpless and alone in this journey.</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Helping local and regional FPIES families find each other because we desperately need each other to feel whole and sane.</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">I believe we will continue to see this disease grow in scope. Just this year, the International FPIES Association announced findings that FPIES is no longer as rare as we previously thought. A large national allergy study found an FPIES diagnosis in 0.5% of the population.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">This research places the estimate of U.S. people living with FPIES at one million. ONE MILLION!</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">I believe many more cases of FPIES are undiagnosed because FPIES has a spectrum of severity and is often outgrown before identification. Let me explain. My son suffered from this disease too, but was never diagnosed. As a first-time mom, I thought everyone’s child was just hard. Looking back now I see striking strange similarities between our son and our daughter. Our son had constant reflux, vomiting, gagging and trouble sleeping. He also couldn’t eat random foods and took eons longer to tolerate normal food than other children his age. Take peaches for example. They made him vomit, so we just avoided peaches. One time I made homemade veggie soup and pureed it for him to have in a pouch. I felt like a champion mother! Right? Wrong- He vomited. We all just thought he was getting sick and we made some jokes about my cooking, but he was fine the next day. I know that he reacted to something in the soup. It wasn’t my cooking. It was FPIES. He outgrew it around 1 and a half, but is occasionally sent home from preschool for unexplained vomiting that has not always been related to a stomach virus. How did we know? Nobody else ever got the virus, including children in his classroom. Even though he has largely outgrown this disease he still has strange stomach pains and symptoms that no one can explain-including an irrational fear of food. </span></div>
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Katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03149605770285683553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6419770427114024166.post-60876700483026250382019-02-18T12:36:00.003-05:002019-03-13T10:19:54.758-04:00Summer Art Camp 2019Come have some summer fun with me! To register your child or for any questions, text me or call at 912-704-3637. You may also email me at Katie.elane.wall@gmail.com. Please give your child's name and grade, plus your cell phone number and email address so that I can send reminders. I also need to know about any allergies. Class sizes are limited. Full payment reserves your child’s spot in art camp. Checks may be made to Katie Podracky. All camps are held at my home on Wednesday and Thursday mornings and all art supplies are included.<br />
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<b>Up your Colored Pencil Game</b>
July 10 & 11 (rising 3rd grade and up)<br />
9 a.m.-12 p.m.<br />
$55<br />
Would you like to know how to make your drawings pop with color? Join me and use my Prismacolor stash to learn how to shade and layer with the softest prettiest colored pencils around. Subject matter is up to you, but I will have examples to choose from. This class focuses on shading and color theory.<br />
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<b>Under the Sea Paper Collage
</b>July 31 and Aug. 1 (rising 2nd grade and up)<br />
<span style="background-color: yellow;">9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. (time is different for this camp due to my childcare)</span><br />
$55<br />
Baby SHARK DO DO DO DO DO DOOO. First we channel our inner sailor while painting splashy watercolor techniques on paper. (and tempera, oil pastel & acrylic paint too) Then we will use the paper to collage an underwater seascape complete with sharks, sunken ships, coral reefs, clown fish, sea turtles, anemones, mermaids, Davie Jones and anything else campers fancy. This is one of my favorite camps.<br />
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<b>Paint the Eiffel Tower</b> (or a Parisian portrait of your pet- I'm serious!) August 7 & 8 (rising 2nd grade and up)<br />
9 a.m.-12 p.m.<br />
$55<br />
Let’s pretend we’re in the city of light while we paint bistros, flower markets, French bulldogs carrying baguettes and the Eiffel tower! Of course we will have to nosh on French macaroons…and coffee- well maybe just for the teacher. (wink)<br />
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<b>Crepe Paper Flower Bouquets</b>
August 14 & 15 (rising 4th grade and up)<br />
9 a.m.-12 p.m.<br />
$55<br />
Sculpting paper flowers takes patience and love, but boy are they beautiful when you’re finished. They’re also the perfect gift for mamas everywhere (and they last). We will create one bouquet per student for a really special summertime memento. This is not an easy peasy project. Determination and attention span are a must, but if you’ve got those, come on over and work on that hand-eye coordination with me to make a one of a kind bouquet.<br />
<br />Katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03149605770285683553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6419770427114024166.post-35526685242238458602018-11-28T21:50:00.003-05:002018-11-28T21:50:50.554-05:00Society 6My whimsical watercolors are finally available for purchase in all kinds of products. Think phone cases, art prints, book bags, stainless steel tumblers, throw pillows, canvas bags, totes and even side tables. Here are some images showing the detail and quality of a few pieces. I'm really happy that I went with Society 6 to produce these-- they are quality. The awesome photographs were taken by my friends at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Blue-House-Photography-868537789875784/" target="_blank">Blue House Photography</a>. (Thanks Al and Rachel!)<div>
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Check it out <a href="https://society6.com/katiewallart" target="_blank">here at Society 6</a> and be sure to search for "katiewallart" if you have any trouble finding me.</div>
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Art Lessons with Katie Podracky Fall 2018</h2>
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All art lessons are Thursdays from 2:45-3:45 at my home. (message me for the address please)<br />
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To pay in advance, it will be $165 for 11 lessons Sept-Dec, due at the time of your first class. If you know you won’t be able to make a certain date, please go ahead and subtract $15 from the payment and let me know when your child will miss. Feel free to share this information with any other students who would like to join us. I have a limit of 10 students, and many of the spots are already spoken for.<br />
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<b><span style="color: blue;">Thursdays 2:45-3:45p.m. $15/class </span></b><br />
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<b>Hot Air Balloon session</b><br />
<b>Sept. 13</b>- Begin hot air balloon watercolor paintings with collage<br />
<b>Sept. 20</b>- Continue hot air balloons (make background)<br />
<b>Sept. 27</b>- Continue hot air balloons (collage)<br />
<b>Oct. 4</b> Finish up hot air balloons and do mini project as time permits<br />
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<b>Fall Ceramic Plates and Halloween session</b><br />
<b>Oct. 11</b> Begin thankful plates (Design, draw and glaze fall themed ceramic plates that will be ready for Thanksgiving.)<br />
<b>Oct. 18</b> Continue glazing plates<br />
<b>Oct. 25</b> Halloween mini project and finish plates if necessary<br />
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<b>Holiday Clay and Paint session</b><br />
<b>Nov. 1</b> Clay Day! Sculpt Ceramic Christmas Trees with a coil method<br />
<b>Nov. 29</b> Begin holiday painting (The Nutcracker theme)<br />
<b>Dec. 6</b> Continue holiday painting and glaze Christmas Trees<br />
<b>Dec. 13</b> Finish holiday paintings and take home Christmas treeKatiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03149605770285683553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6419770427114024166.post-58893439397133765412018-03-15T08:43:00.001-04:002018-03-15T08:43:50.084-04:00Summer Art Camps 2018It's time for summer art camps again! Here they are. To register your child, contact me by text, phone or email. If you're new and don't have my contact information, leave me a message via my website (www.katiewallart.com) or find me on Facebook and I'll be glad to add your little one! <span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Please give your child's name and grade, plus your cell phone number and
email address so that I can send reminders. </span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">I also need to know about any allergies. Class
sizes are limited and first come, first serve. Full payment reserves your
child’s spot in art camp. Checks may be made to Katie Podracky.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">July 11 & 12 AND a glazing
day (Aug 1 or 2) (</span></b><span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">rising 2<sup>nd</sup>-6th) 9 a.m.-12 p.m.</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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the first two days of camp, we will experiment with slab building techniques
and campers can choose to work on animal pinch pots, coil pots or their own
clay idea creations. The pottery wheel will be available for experimentation as
well. All clay pieces will be fired and campers return for one glazing day
(9-12 am), on a day that fits their schedule. (August 1or 2 are scheduled
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Back
by popular demand, this project features beautiful splashy watercolor
techniques on paper. We use the paper to collage a seascape complete with
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teach some of my favorite underpainting methods and show you how to make your very
own saltwater marsh scene with layers of paint and LOTS of color. This is the “fine
art” version of summer camps where we paint on canvas like professional
artists. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Please wear old clothes that
can get stained.</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"> </span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Batik Scarf</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">August 22 & 23 (</span></b><span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">rising 3<sup>nd</sup>-7th) 9
a.m.-12 p.m.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">$55<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">In
this camp, we will create a beautiful scarf using methods of batik wax resist
and fabric dyeing. Scarves can be worn, of course, or they can be used to wrap
a special gift, to frame as art, or as a fun part of your next interpretive
dance routine!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">September 13th: </span></b><span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Small group art lessons begin on Thursdays
from 2:45-3:45 p.m. (rising 2<sup>nd</sup>-5<sup>th</sup> grades)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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We are continuing our student artist group. All art lessons are Thursdays from 2:45-3:45 at my house. $15/lesson.
To pay in advance, it will be $195 for 13 lessons, due at the time of your first class. If you know you won’t be able to make a certain date, please go ahead and subtract $15 from the payment and let me know when your child will miss. Feel free to share this information with any other students who would like to join us. I have a limit of 10 students, and many of the spots are already booked. As always, THANK YOU for letting me have this fun time with your children. I truly enjoy them and I love getting to teach art.<br />
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<b>January 4</b> begin Ceramic Valentine’s Plates<br />
<b>January 11</b> continue Valentine plates<br />
<i>January 18</i> (no class today)<br />
<b>January 25</b> finish Valentine plates, begin Chinese vases with peonies as time allows.<br />
<b>Febuary 1 </b>Chinese blue vases with peonies (make vases and flower paper)<br />
<b>February 8 </b>continue Chinese blue vases with peonies. (etch vases)<br />
<b>February 15</b> continue Chinese blue vases with peonies. (draw and cut out flowers and assemble art)
<b>February 22 </b>finish up Chinese vases and bouquets<br />
<b>March 1</b> begin Hipster bunnies!<br />
<i>March 8 (no class today) </i><br />
<b>March 15</b> finish bunnies<br />
<b>March 22</b> TBD<br />
<b>March 29</b> Clay Day! We will make spring clay projects (great Mother’s Day gifts)<br />
<i>April 5 (no class today) </i><br />
<b>April 12</b> Glaze clay projects<br />
<b>April 19 </b> TBD and return clay projects<br />
<i>April 26 Possible make up day if needed</i><br />
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We will stop regular classes in May, but summer camps will begin in June.<br />
Classes will resume on Thursdays in September.
Katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03149605770285683553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6419770427114024166.post-46621992743100685882017-08-31T07:37:00.000-04:002017-08-31T07:37:09.034-04:00Fall Art Lessons 2017Hi parents!<br />
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We are continuing our student artist group this fall and beyond. The price is still $15/lesson. If you’d like to join us, just let me know by text at 912.704.363seven. It is a joy for me to spend time with your wonderful children. I mean it!<br />
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Group art lessons are Thursdays from 2:45-3:45 at my house, 3022 Lake Forest Dr. This fall we will make paper mache Halloween sculptures inspired by Tim Burton, perspective drawings of pumpkin patches & sunflower fields, snowmen sculptures, and experiment with watercolor techniques (my favorite!) among other things.<br />
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To pay in advance, it will be $180 for 12 lessons Sept-Dec. If you know you won’t be able to make a certain date, please go ahead and subtract $15 from the payment and let me know when your child will miss.<br />
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Feel free to share this information with any other students who would like to join us. I have a limit of 10 students, and over half the spots are already full.<br />
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Thursdays 2:45-3:45p.m.<br />
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<b>Sept. 7- Begin perspective sunflower or pumpkin fields </b><br />
Sept. 14- Continue perspective work<br />
Sept 21: No Art<br />
<b>Sept. 28- Begin Paper Mache Halloween Sculptures (Tim Burton inspired) </b><br />
October 5 Continue Halloween sculptures<br />
October 12 Continue Halloween sculptures<br />
<b>October 19 Begin Leaf patterns </b><br />
October 26 Leaf patterns continued<br />
Nov. 2 Leaf patterns continued<br />
Nov. 9 No Art<br />
Nov. 16 students choice: finish up projects day, or fun quick Thanksgiving project<br />
Nov. 23: No art Thanksgiving<br />
<b>Nov. 30 Begin Paper Mache Snowmen sculptures </b><br />
Dec. 7 Paper Mache snowmen continued<br />
Dec. 14 Finish Snowmen sculptures and possibly make pastel Christmas trees depending on time<br />
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We will resume again on January 4 based on everyone’s interest
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<br />Katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03149605770285683553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6419770427114024166.post-20484507545998880262017-05-14T14:26:00.000-04:002017-05-14T14:26:01.643-04:00<b>Summer Art Camp with Katie Podracky </b><br />
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Hey Parents! Would you like a morning or two to yourself this summer? Send your kids to art camp with me so they can get messy and have a blast while you relax or get something done. I’m an artist and art teacher with 5 years of experience in the public schools and a mama of two. To see my work visit <a href="http://www.katiewallart.com/">www.katiewallart.com</a>. To register your child, text me or call at 912-704-3637. You may also email me at Katie.elane.wall@gmail.com. Please give your child's name and grade, plus your cell phone number and email address so that I can send reminders. I also need to know about any allergies. Class sizes are limited and first come, first serve. Full payment reserves your child’s spot in art camp. Checks may be made to Katie Podracky and mailed to 3022 Lake Forest Dr., Greensboro, NC 27408. All camps are held at my home and all art supplies are included.<br />
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<b>Paint a Vintage Camper Beach Bus </b><br />
July 12 &13 (rising 2nd-6th) 9 a.m.-12 p.m.<br />
$50<br />
On day 1, we’ll draw and paint our vintage camper busses, and on day two we’ll add fun details like surfboards, clothes lines, beach umbrellas and even seashells. Let’s go to the beach, shall we? Flip flops required (wink).<br />
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<b>Cactus Painting and Watercolor techniques </b><br />
July 19 & 20 (rising 2nd-6th) 9 a.m.-12 p.m.<br />
$50<br />
Succulents are all the rage these days. They’re even better if you don’t have to water them!
We’ll draw and paint cacti and succulents with vivid watercolors and then add zentangle pattern details with sharpie markers. The art will be frame worthy!<br />
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<b>All About Ice Cream Art: Paper Mache </b><br />
August 2 & 3 (rising 2nd-6th) 9 a.m.-12 p.m.<br />
$50<br />
This project is back by popular demand. We will create paper mache ice cream cones and draw pop-art inspired sweet treats. Last year, we drew and shaded donuts and then gobbled them down for a snack! This camp is messy, so please wear old clothes.<br />
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<b>Seascape Collage: Watercolor techniques and torn paper </b><br />
August 9 & 10 (rising 2nd-6th) 9 a.m.-12 p.m.<br />
$50<br />
In this camp, we will create a beautiful seascape collage from hand painted paper. Think about sailing the 7 seas with sun, sand, fluffy clouds and sail boats. We will experiment with splatter painting, salt painting, alcohol painting and more fun techniques before we arrange our masterpiece. If you’re looking for something frame-worthy, this camp is for you!<br />
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<b>Thursday, August 31:</b> Small group art lessons begin on Thursdays from 2:45-3:45 p.m.<br />
(rising 2nd-5th grades)<br />
$15/ class if paid upfront, or $18/class pay as you go.<br />
Limit of 10 students. Seasonal projects will be tailored to the students who sign up. Snack is provided, so please let me know about allergies.Katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03149605770285683553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6419770427114024166.post-8666937268004549432016-07-18T13:25:00.000-04:002016-07-18T13:26:12.941-04:00Art Enrichment Classes for Homeschool Students<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
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Please give your child's name and grade, plus your phone number and email
address so that I can send reminders. Class sizes are limited, so please contact
me as soon as possible. Full payment reserves your child’s spot in art enrichment
class. Checks may be made to Katie Podracky and mailed to 3022 Lake Forest Dr.,
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To register your child or for any questions, text me or call at 912-704-3637. You may also email me at Katie.elane.wall@gmail.com. Please give your child's name and grade, plus your cell phone number and email address so that I can send reminders. I also need to know about any allergies. Snack: Please send a snack with your child both days of camp. Class sizes are limited, so please text me as soon as possible to let me know of your intent. Full payment reserves your child’s spot in art camp. Checks may be made to Katie Podracky and mailed to 3022 Lake Forest Dr., Greensboro, NC 27408. All camps are held at my home and all art supplies are included in the price of camp unless otherwise noted.<br />
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<b>Clay Days Grades 3-5 </b>(rising 3rd-5th grade)<br />
July 6, 7 and 13(extra day for glazing), 9-11a.m. 75$<br />
If you’ve always wanted to try your hand at the pottery wheel, this camp is for you! In addition to throwing pots, students will be introduced to hand building techniques in clay. This camp wouldn’t be finished without a day to glaze your ceramic creations, so it will extend to the following week for a glazing day. If you are unable to make the glazing day, I can work with you to find a different date.
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<b>Candy Land Art Camp Grades 3-5 </b>(rising 3rd-5th grade)<br />
August 3 and 4, 9-11 a.m. $50<br />
Welcome to the sweet life! This week we will sculpt paper-Mache ice cream cones, draw candy still life pictures and paint Thiebaud-inspired cakes.<br />
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<b>Chihuly Chandeliers Grades 3-5</b> (rising 3rd-5th grade)<br />
August 17 and 18, 9-11 a.m. $50<br />
Are you ready to spice up your room? Come make a chandelier inspired by the work of glass artist, Dale Chihuly. We will use recycled water bottles to make your masterpiece! If you want to make it light up too bring a strand of Christmas lights with you when you come to camp!<br />
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<b>Color Magic: Batik, Ice-Dyes and Printmaking</b><br />
August 10 and 11, 12-2 p.m.
$50<br />
Do you love color? Are you up for a challenge? Join me for an advanced art camp for middle school students where we'll use color in unexpected ways. We will use wax and dye to make silk scarf batik art, followed by ice-dying old t-shirts to bring them new life. Have you ever wanted to make art with jello? This is your chance! We'll be using jello and paint to print fabulous designs on paper. We'll also explore the Japanese art of Suminigashi, or spilled ink printing. Bring a bagged lunch and an old t-shirt that you'd like to ice-dye with crazy bright colors.<br />
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* Private art lessons available upon request. $25/session/any ageKatiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03149605770285683553noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6419770427114024166.post-55825726910295109772014-09-23T17:28:00.001-04:002014-09-23T17:28:44.456-04:00The importance of art education (part 3)<div style="background-color: #f8f8f8; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 13px; line-height: 21px; outline: none;">
<i>This post originally appeared on <a href="http://www.keepforeverbox.net/2014/09/22/develop_creativity/" target="_blank">Keep Forever Box</a> on September 22, 2014.</i></div>
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There are many fun ways to help support art education and develop creativity in children. To help your local art teacher, introduce yourself and offer to volunteer. You could help arrange a bulletin board for her, or provide supplies. Personally, I’m always in need of copy paper, baby wipes, and toilet paper tubes. I’ll also gladly accept any unwanted old art supplies you have at home. I use old markers to make my own liquid watercolors. Google it if you’re interested—it’s awesome fun and inexpensive. Ask what the teacher needs. Sometimes it’s really simple to help. You could also offer to come in and help on messy days. Clay day is a blast. You’ll see the joy and the thrill of the art room first hand.</div>
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Read these fun, creative books with children to help get their creative juices flowing</div>
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For the little ones, read them one of these excellent art books. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Beautiful-Oops-Barney-Saltzberg/dp/076115728X/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top?ie=UTF8" style="-webkit-transition: 0.2s ease; box-sizing: border-box; color: #a13f41; outline: none; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.2s ease;" target="_blank" title="Beautiful Oops! on Amazon"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;">Beautiful Oops!</strong></a> by Barney Saltzberg is a pop-up book about how to turn mistakes into opportunities. My toddler nieces and nephew love it, as well as my younger elementary students. It turns drips of paint into little pigs riding cars and crumpled paper into fun surprises. After we read the book, I often give the children a paper with a mistake on it. Then it’s their job to figure out how to make great art with it anyway. It’s easy and good fun. Students get to practice recovering from their mistakes, and you get to put scrap paper to good use. It also teaches not to waste! Yay!</div>
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Another book along the same lines that helps develop creativity is <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Perfect-Square-Michael-Hall/dp/0061915130/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1411397240&sr=1-1&keywords=The+Perfect+Square+by+Michael+Hall" style="-webkit-transition: 0.2s ease; box-sizing: border-box; color: #a13f41; outline: none; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.2s ease;" target="_blank" title="The Perfect Square on Amazon"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;">The Perfect Square</strong> by Michael Hall</a>. Again, it teaches resilience, creativity and alternate points of view. It’s about an optimistic little square that gets torn up, shredded, and crumpled. That poor little square goes through the wringer and turns it around to create beautiful experiences out of hardship. What a metaphor for life huh? For the activity, all you need is a construction paper square, scissors and a glue stick—let the kids tear apart poor little square and then practice re-creating beauty out of a mess.</div>
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My last favorite children’s art book is an oldie but a goody. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Harold-Purple-Crayon-Crockett-Johnson/dp/0060229357/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1411397358&sr=1-1&keywords=Harold+and+the+Purple+Crayon" style="-webkit-transition: 0.2s ease; box-sizing: border-box; color: #a13f41; outline: none; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.2s ease;" target="_blank" title="Purple Crayon on Amazon"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;">Harold and the Purple Crayon</strong></a> by Crockett Johnson teaches students that they have the power to change their environments and to solve their own problems with imagination. All they need is a silly little crayon. It doesn’t even have to be purple. For an art project, I often give students a purple crayon as well as different purple shapes. It’s their job to take it from there and create whatever masterpiece their heart tells them to make.</div>
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Here are some ideas to get creative juices flowing at home. Stop motion image from <a href="http://msnovak.blogspot.com/2013/05/1-5th-grades-stop-motion-animation-week.html" style="-webkit-transition: 0.2s ease; box-sizing: border-box; color: #a13f41; outline: none; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.2s ease;" target="_blank" title="Stop motion animation">Organized Chaos</a>, fort building ideas from <a href="http://allfortheboys.com/?s=cardboard+fort" style="-webkit-transition: 0.2s ease; box-sizing: border-box; color: #a13f41; outline: none; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.2s ease;" target="_blank" title="cardboard fort building">All for the Boys</a>, and Invention box ideas from <a href="http://pinkandgreenmama.blogspot.com/2008/09/keep-em-busythey-just-might-learn.html#.VCA9MShmjww" style="-webkit-transition: 0.2s ease; box-sizing: border-box; color: #a13f41; outline: none; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.2s ease;" target="_blank" title="Invention Box ideas">Pink and Green Mama</a>.</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;">Sidewalk Chalk Paints</strong>: Mix water, food coloring and cornstarch in a muffin tin. Hand over a brush and let the little ones go to town outside. They can learn color mixing, develop fine motor skills, and build observational skills critical for science class later on. When you’re done, hose everyone off, especially the toddlers. It might be the best part.</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;">Homemade play dough:</strong> With simple ingredients and 30 minutes, you can create a huge amount of play dough. For tons of recipes, just Google homemade play dough or homemade salt dough. Children develop fine motor skills while they practice making tracks, rolling logs, building houses or even cooking. It’s great, cheap fun and puts your child in control for a bit. See a tutorial <a href="http://youtu.be/Z-vfDdb1VfU" style="-webkit-transition: 0.2s ease; box-sizing: border-box; color: #a13f41; outline: none; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.2s ease;" target="_blank" title="Cooking with Ellie: How to make play doh">here. </a></div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;">Cardboard Fort:</strong> It’s every kid’s favorite. So what if an expensive toy came in the box. Sometimes the box is still the best part. Offer crayons, construction paper or paint, depending on how messy you’re willing to let it get. See where the box can take your child. It could be a spaceship, a battleground for superheroes, a veterinary office for stuffed animals, or a doll’s dream house. Fun!</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;">Build it Box:</strong> Put clean recyclables and random doo-dads in a box. When your kids are bored, get out the “build it box” and have them create an invention. Brainstorm about what kind of robot they could make and inspire them with some online research.</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;">Stop Animation:</strong> If your child is a little bit older and technologically savvy, get him away from the video games by making him a movie producer. There are lots of stop-motion animation apps that are fun to play with and fairly easy to figure out… especially if you’re 8. A few of my favorites are: iMotion, StopAnimator and OSnap! Lite. Most of these are free downloads in the app store. Kids can take multiple pictures of their toys in different positions and really make some awesome and hilarious video shorts.</div>
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Remember when you’re arranging group activities with siblings or neighbors, allow kids to set roles for themselves. I do an amusement park engineering lesson with students where they create a ride from simple machines and recycled materials. There are always roles like safety engineer, lead designer, lead engineer—make it sound fun and give everybody ownership and specific roles for a more successful collaboration.</div>
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I sure hope these ideas help get you started to develop creativity with your children! If you try some of these, please let me know. I’d love to hear from you.</div>
Katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03149605770285683553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6419770427114024166.post-84184905026513939562014-09-09T17:41:00.003-04:002014-09-09T17:41:57.148-04:00The importance of art education (part 2)<div style="background-color: #f8f8f8; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 13px; line-height: 21px; outline: none;">
<i>This post originally appeared on <a href="http://www.keepforeverbox.net/2014/09/08/importance-art-education-part-2/" target="_blank">Keep Forever Box</a>.</i></div>
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Here’s an example of what I’m talking about. Last year at the middle school where I worked, we raised lots of money and wrote a grant for a sculpture project called “<a href="http://www.recreatingthedream.blogspot.com/" style="-webkit-transition: 0.2s ease; box-sizing: border-box; color: #a13f41; outline: none; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.2s ease;" target="_blank" title="Recreating the Dream blog">Recreating the Dream: The March on Washington</a>.”</div>
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We secured hundreds of rolls of packing tape for our students and for students around the county. A total of 10 art teachers from 7 different schools worked together to have students re-create the March on Washington of 1963 and Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I have a dream” speech. Students made life size sculptures out of clear packing tape.</div>
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Artist and educator Katie Wall Podracky led middle school students with other art teachers in creating this sculpture project “Recreating the Dream: The March on Washington.”</div>
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Student groups of three or four were given the problem of creating one protestor for the march. They had to self-assign roles for each other, which often included a model, a safety engineer, a taper, and a structural engineer. Students researched the history in the computer lab to learn about who these people were and why they were protesting. They also watched the entirety of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I have a dream” speech for perspective and inspiration. Students also spoke with a local commemorative sculptor about his process, and learned about George Segal’s work on the great depression and the holocaust. This project is a great example of how students practice problem solving, creativity, collaboration and communication in art class. Working together, they had to create a sculpture that would stand, communicate an idea, and fascinate their audience. It was a huge success! I believe it taught them so much more about themselves as individuals. They learned that students, especially student artists could be powerful agents of change in this world. This project involved learning way beyond reading passages in a book and taking a test about history. Instead, students put themselves in the shoes of the person they were creating. They got caught up in the emotion of the event, and they were intrinsically motivated to do a great job. I am so proud of them!</div>
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Last year at the middle school where I worked, we raised lots of money and wrote a grant for a sculpture project called “Recreating the Dream: The March on Washington.”</div>
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Art class often includes the best practices in education. It’s basically how we all want to be treated in a classroom. We want to be engaged, entertained and experiencing hands-on learning instead of sitting back and receiving a lecture. We also want to have a little control over our own destiny. We want the freedom to put our own stamp of creativity and personality on our projects and we want to steer their direction to an extent. We also learn a lot from our peers when we’re allowed to interact with them. Art class is essential.</div>
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In all, we had right at 125 sculptures of protestors at the march, and roughly 700 students participated in creating them. Some students were interviewed by the newspaper or television. One student group created a mini-documentary about the project on their own time. Many students said it was their favorite project all year. Art class is not only awesome, it’s lots of fun and it keeps students excited about coming to school.</div>
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To learn more about this art project and to see additional pictures and video documentaries, visit <a href="http://www.recreatingthedream.blogspot.com./">www.recreatingthedream.blogspot.com.</a></div>
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So you’re probably wondering how you can help ensure that your children receive this kind of education. There are many ways to do this! You can help your local art teacher, or you can tackle some artistic learning at home on your own. For some inspiration, check back here later next week.</div>
Katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03149605770285683553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6419770427114024166.post-56152590484302316332014-08-26T17:14:00.000-04:002014-08-26T17:14:33.719-04:00The importance of art education (part 1)<h3 style="background-color: #f8f8f8; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Roboto; line-height: 1.618; outline: none;">
<em style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: normal; outline: none;">I was recently asked to write about why art education. This post originally appeared on the blog called "<a href="http://www.keepforeverbox.net/2014/08/25/importance-art-education-part-1/" target="_blank">Keep Forever Box</a>." Here's what I came up with: </em></h3>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.618; outline: none;">“Well with all the cuts in education, you must understand why the art teacher has to give up her room for a regular classroom teacher. It’s just common sense, right? Some things are more important than others”</em></h3>
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A family member spoke these words to me years ago. He meant well, but it shocked me. You see, I am an artist, a perpetual art student and an art teacher in the public schools of North Carolina. In the few years that I’ve been teaching, my position has been cut or threatened many times, regardless of how great I am at my job. I have worked in a trailer with no sink where I carried in my own water for students to wash their hands. That’s hard when you have hundreds of students a week. I have pulled together amazing projects with a budget of less than 15 cents per student. I fundraise on nights and weekends so I can purchase good supplies for my students. I have also been repeatedly belittled through administrators' decisions about the value of my subject and I have lost weeks of precious planning time so that I could administer reading fluency tests that provided little to no meaningful data, even to the reading teachers. Appreciation is not a major part of this job. Sometimes my own family fails to understand the value of the services I provide.</div>
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Art is not a sideline subject. Every single day, I hear parents, teachers, and administrators talk about the 21<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 10px; line-height: 0; outline: none; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">st</span>century skills that they want our children to have. We want a workforce full of people who can think for themselves, troubleshoot, collaborate, problem solve, and clearly communicate their ideas. We want them to be persistent and overcome mistakes. We want them to be flexible and successful members of our society within an ever-changing working environment. We also want them to be tolerant of others beliefs and values, especially when they differ from our own. We want Steve Jobs reincarnate, only better, kinder and more socially adjusted. With today’s strict assessment techniques and test-taking government mandates, I firmly believe art class is perhaps the only subject that can still get us there. Here’s why.</div>
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Every day in art class, I give my students a problem to solve. I propose an idea, or a challenge, and students typically work together in small groups to create a solution. Their process involves critical thinking (how do we do this?), collaboration (working with a group at their table), creativity (non-linear and often clever thought processes to come up with a solution with limited supplies) and communication (both while working in their team and to present results or communicate an idea to others through an end product).</div>
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In terms of Bloom’s Taxonomy, a common educational reference about higher order thinking, creating is right there at the top of cognitive ability. Memorizing facts for multiple choice tests… well, that’s the lowest level of learning and typically is meaningless in the long run. In terms of real life, art class teaches skills that apply directly to success in any job.</div>
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There’s a quote from Pinterest I love that says, “Art has the role in education of helping children become like themselves instead of more like everyone else. ” I don’t know who said it, but it rings true every time. There are many different kinds of learning abilities and different styles of leadership, but in art class, each and every student can find an opportunity to shine… to build self-esteem, confidence and to be proud of their accomplishments. <strong style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;">Art class isn’t just about allowing students to express themselves</strong>. <strong style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;">Art class is about modeling and practicing skills that will help children throughout their lives. These skills of collaboration, communication, critical thinking and creativity will help them build stronger </strong><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;">marriages and raise happier children. It will help them secure their dreams in the work force and it will help them survive, overcome and thrive as they face difficult times or decisions.</strong></div>
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We didn’t get to the moon with reading, writing, arithmetic, and multiple-choice tests alone. American ingenuity, creativity, persistence, and problem solving got us there. These are the exact skills that children practice in my art class every day.</div>
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Summer Hike, oil on canvas, 48 x 60 inches</div>
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This one was inspired by a photo I took this summer while Dave and I were hiking in Yosemite. We were on the way to see the most magnificent waterfalls I've ever seen before. Thanks to a few snow days last week, I was able to finish it up.<div>
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Here we are together, two weeks before she passed away</div>
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Dear North Carolina,<o:p></o:p></div>
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My mother told me not to be a teacher. When I was an infant,
she realized that her teacher’s salary would not allow her to take me to the
beach to see the ocean. As I grew, she
told me to choose a job that would pay me well. She said that all people work
hard, but that some people get paid way more than others. Like they say in our great state, “She was
right as rain.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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I saw everything differently though. I saw the countless children that my mother
loved and the joy it brought to recall their antics and their successes. I saw her summers off without realizing how
many unpaid hours she was putting in to do her job so well. She was and is
excellent at her job and her students are lucky to have her. Still, I tried not to become a teacher. <o:p></o:p></div>
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In college, I steered clear of education, but the highlight
of my week was picking up my little buddy, Jasmine, a girl labeled at-risk for
dropout by her teachers. Defiant, rude, loud and as sassy as they come, Jasmine
made life difficult for her teachers.
She was kicked out of her high school for delinquent behavior. In their eyes, she was lashing out and out of control.
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I saw a different side of Jasmine though. When she got in my
car she always changed the station to rap and cranked up the volume as loud as
it could go. It must have been hilarious
to see a waspy girl like me riding around with my sassy Jazzy and 102 JAMZ turned
way up loud. When we weren’t talking about her crush on Lil Wayne or Usher, I
helped Jasmine earn A’s by teaching her how to study for tests. We turned it
into a game, and then she aced everything. For all of her brash exterior,
Jasmine was a gentle soul on the inside. She loved babysitting her cousins and
she was as tender with them as any mother would be. She wanted to earn her
cosmetology license and she talked about going to college like me. I saw her struggle with her weight and worry
about finding something that would fit for her homecoming dance. My heart broke
along with hers several times through the years. I loved her and she became a friend instead
of just a mentee. I will never forget the day her mother called me to tell me
that she passed away. She was about to turn 16.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I couldn’t save Jasmine.
In fact, I believe she was the one who saved me from a dishonest life
with myself—I was meant to be a teacher all along. She showed me that much and
more. Five years later, I am a
teacher. I just earned my master’s
degree while working full time in the public schools and I am graced by the
presence of students like Jasmine all the time.
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In the few years that I have worked in this profession, I
have lived so much. I taught a child who watched one parent murder the other
one. I saw that student heal, grow and flourish again in the classrooms at my previous
school. I taught children who had such low self esteem that they couldn’t see
their worth until teachers broke through layer by layer to show it to them. I
have watched, heartbroken as a kind cafeteria worker loaded up a child’s
backpack with leftover boxes of raisins at the end of the year so that he would
have something to eat over the summer. I
had no idea. I feel the sting of tears well up in my eyes even now as I remember
this. They are tears of hurt, knowing that I have glimpsed the abyss of need in
our communities but they are also tears of hope because I know that I have
found my purpose. I still have so much
to give. My mother told me not to be a
teacher. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Parents, I am on your team. I love your daughters and your
sons. I take great joy in crafting the
best lessons-- lessons so good that your children won’t even realize how much
they’re learning because of all the fun they have in the process. Once I teach a student, I always consider him
or her one of my children too. Teaching is not a simple act of imparting
knowledge. Teaching is a lifelong mentoring relationship—it is a calling—it is
love. <o:p></o:p></div>
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It hurts me deeply to know that North Carolina has gutted
the public education system in favor of vouchers and charter schools that can
pick and choose their student clientele.
It hurts me to know that the legislature and governor have stripped
North Carolina of the teaching fellows program to recruit and cultivate new
talent for our children. I ache in knowing that they also cut master’s pay for deserving teachers who have given everything they have for
a tiny increase in salary. Let us be clear. Master’s pay is a simple $3,000
jump from the base salary of a North Carolina teacher. To teachers who make
30,000 a year, losing this is a punch in the gut. This is $3,000 less that they will have each
year to afford a safe car, healthy food for their families, or the rising costs
of college tuition for their own children. And for what savings does this come? Is it for
businesses to have a tax break? Teachers
are educating the future work force. The least we can do is make sure that they
don’t have to live on government assistance while they do their difficult jobs.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Legislators will tell you that these changes are for the
good of the state, but they are shortsighted.
Without quality teachers our public school children—the poorest ones,
the ones who need it the most—will fall even more behind. They will blame it on the teachers, because
we are easy targets. We tend to keep
our heads down and do what we love—teach.
We don’t want to be involved in politics—we don’t want to make waves--we
just want to be able to live on a modest but fair salary. We want to work in schools that don’t have to
choose between ordering toilet paper or copy paper. Is this too much to ask? My mother told me
not to be a teacher.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I hear some of my friends and family ask, “What’s wrong with
these lazy teachers? Why can’t they get those test scores up?” I can’t begin to
explain the hurt and anger that those statements incite. With rising class
sizes year after year, little to no budget for supplies and rapidly falling
pay, these statements are demoralizing. Students can’t ace tests when they’re
hungry for nourishment, itchy from head lice or when they haven’t had any sleep
because they are homeless and scared at night. Even when schools do succeed at raising
test scores, as my mother’s school has, the teachers have yet to see the meager
bonus promised alongside that success. The only reward that teachers receive is
the intrinsic satisfaction of doing their jobs well and with great love. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I am one of the lucky ones. I am lucky enough to work in
Guilford County now, where teacher pay is slightly higher than most in the
state. In addition, my husband is not a teacher and so I am able to continue on
this career path of doing what I love because we can afford it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Dear North Carolina, land that I love, please hear me when I
say, it should not be a luxury to choose teaching as a career. <o:p></o:p></div>
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My mother told me not to be a teacher. When I finally have a child of my own, please
don’t make me tell him or her not to be a teacher too.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Sincerely,<o:p></o:p></div>
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Katie Wall Podracky<o:p></o:p></div>
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N.C. Public school teacher, Greensboro<o:p></o:p></div>
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First, I started with a translucent layer of vibrant orange. I also used some brushwork to draw into the orange. To do this, I simply put some mineral spirits on a brush or a rag and then wiped away the orange to lighten it.<br />
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Next I added in the clouds. I love the clouds! I intentionally left some of the underpainting so that it would peek through the clouds and sky to give it a warm glow. When adding the clouds, I worked from dark to light. Here, the darks aren't that dark, so I just used sky blue to darken the contour lines.<br />
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Then I brought in the darks for the distant tree line across the water. I made sure that I still left some of the original bright orange color peeking through at the skyline.<br />
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The water and dock came next. <br />
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Finally I added the green and yellow marshy grasses on top. All of these colors (except for the orange) are mixed on my palette so that the painting doesn't look "straight from the tube." The tube colors are a starting point that the artist needs to refine and re-state. I also went back and forth into the clouds and sky to sharpen or blur lines as I went.<br />
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Ta-da! That's how I paint after many years of careful observation and lost of practice. The colors in the last piece look much brighter because I took the picture outside in natural light instead of the dim light of my studio. Mason and Richard, I hope you love this as much as I do! Thank you so much for your commission!<br />
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<br />Katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03149605770285683553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6419770427114024166.post-19646713788052597442013-03-31T13:41:00.001-04:002013-03-31T13:41:11.219-04:00Happy Easter<div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;">
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Some folks don't appreciate the culinary genius of peeps, but for those of you raised on high-fructose corn syrup (like me), here goes! First, <a href="http://www.pinkpistachio.com/peeps/" target="_blank">make homemade marshmallows</a>. Let the "batter" sit over night and then use bunny and chick cookie cutters to cut out fun shapes. Finally, dust with sanding sugar and add melted chocolate dot eyes with a toothpick. I also made <a href="http://www.chef-in-training.com/2012/04/no-bake-chocolate-egg-nest-cookies/" target="_blank">no-bake nests using this recipe</a> and added Easter candies for fun baskets. Having time to be creative is one little thing I am grateful for this Easter morning.<br />
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This one is a quote from Kahlil Gibran: <span style="color: #d5a6bd; font-size: large;"><i>"Beauty is not in the face. Beauty is a light in the heart."</i></span> I had to work out some kinks with this one because you have to carve all the words backwards so they will print correctly.</div>
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This one is for all my nerd friends: <span style="color: #d5a6bd; font-size: large;"><i>You're the Obi-Wan for me!</i></span></div>
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<br />Katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03149605770285683553noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6419770427114024166.post-82412182771149159302013-01-21T12:30:00.000-05:002013-01-21T12:30:34.244-05:00Back in the Saddle!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
This weekend has been fabulous! Friday ended up as a snow-day which prevented me from taking my comps at UNC-P over the MLK Jr. break. Thank goodness! Instead of studying I was able to paint. It's been forever, but once I got into it, everything came flooding back. This is the beginning of my work based on our trip to France in August. Here is Monet's Japanese bridge and gardens at Giverny, Katie style! It's not finished yet, but it's coming right along.</div>
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This fall has been a whirlwind and today was no exception. Today was my last day at Randleman Elementary School. The students and staff showed me such kindness and such an outpouring of love! The second graders surprised me by bringing me a magnificent umbrella with all their hand prints painted on it. They were all waiting outside my door to say a big goodbye. The first graders also surprised me with a big goodbye and the sweetest signs that said "Mrs. Podracky, we will miss you." Each student created a mini self-portrait on the signs, so I will always be able to remember them. I will miss my sweet little tigers and my wonderful co-workers so much.<br />
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I am moving to a school that is closer to home and getting to work with another great colleague from graduate school. Next week I start work at North West Guilford Middle School. I am sure that I will come to love the students and staff in no time, but today I celebrate my sweet elementary students and experiences at RES. The picture above was drawn to show me getting swept up to my new school by a big tornado! Here are more samples of my elementary student's brilliant work from this fall.<br />
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Katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03149605770285683553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6419770427114024166.post-41112629586666132272012-04-12T08:50:00.002-04:002012-04-12T08:52:35.071-04:00Why we need art in schoolsPlease take 4 and a half minutes to see this video. This is my teaching philosophy in a nutshell. It's not "just" art at all, but everything.<br />
<div style='padding-bottom: 2px; line-height: 0px'><a href='http://pinterest.com/pin/29625310018957972/' target='_blank'><img src='http://media-cache1.pinterest.com/upload/63050463503077134_lcld4BvO_c.jpg' border='0' width='400' height ='200'/></a></div><div style='float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;'><p style='font-size: 10px; color: #76838b;'>Source: <a style='text-decoration: underline; font-size: 10px; color: #76838b;' href='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAm9kEfR8GM&feature=related'>youtube.com</a> via <a style='text-decoration: underline; font-size: 10px; color: #76838b;' href='http://pinterest.com/Guntastolzl/' target='_blank'>Ms</a> on <a style='text-decoration: underline; color: #76838b;' href='http://pinterest.com' target='_blank'>Pinterest</a></p></div>Katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03149605770285683553noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6419770427114024166.post-77896125649094951992012-04-01T08:52:00.001-04:002012-04-01T08:52:00.766-04:00Kindergarten Self portraits<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I love these. Look at these smiling little faces. This may be my favorite lesson plan of the year. Six year olds rock!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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