Just caught some home video of cute little thin mint eating his lunch. He always gets excited when this song comes on. Brings a smile to his face, as do the marshmallows i feed him. They're his favorite.

This is my tropical fish named Thin mint. He is very skinny, hence the name thin mint. He is from the Caribbean and I found him one day while I was scuba diving on a coral reef. I have given you his two side views because he is just so beautiful. He likes to eat fish food that I buy at incredible pets because he is incredible. Sometimes I wonder what he liked to eat when he lived in the big blue but alas there is no way for me to ask him. He enjoys swimming in fast circles around the fish tank, playing tag with the other fish and swimming through the bubbles that come out of the play volcano inside his tank. Sometimes I move his tank around the house so that he gets to experience different scenery. He especially likes the view from the bedroom window because it overlooks a small pond. I think the water reminds him of his previous home. His blue and purple color help him to blend into the ocean when he doesn't want to be seen. I love my thin mint and hope that he lives a very long life. He is the best fish I have ever had.

This is my flamingo that I created out of wire and pipe-cleaner. I used a bit of clay so that it would stand up on it's one leg. I gave myself the handicap of being blind while I made this flamingo. I had a blindfold on and it took me forever. Honestly it took like two hours because I wanted there to still be some detail but I had to feel it all since I wouldn't see anything. By the end I was able to use the pliers easier because I had gotten used to what it was like and how to manipulate the wire the way that I wanted. This was an interesting experience and it really gave me some insight into what I will need to do to help those student sin my class who might have special needs. Time is a huge thing. You can't rush any child when they're doing an art project because they really care a lot about their work and they want it to be their best. If we rush them it gives the impression that art is not important and that we will accept mediocre or half hearted attempts. I know a flamingo isn't a typical circus animal but I thought it would be really fun to make and I only had pink wire and pink pipe cleaners at my house. I'm pretty sure you can find a flamingo at a circus in Florida or any place that they native too. If I had a circus I would definitely have Flamingos participating.

ABC Scratchboard

The ABC's scratched into black tempera paint over crayon. ABC's around the outside as kind of a border and then lower-case letters swirled in the middle.

Starry Night

Depiction of the view from my bedroom window at night. I actually live in a basement apartment without a window here in Logan so I drew the view from my room back home. There is a tree right next to the window and then one further away. There is a grassy hill with a trampoline at the bottom of it which i was trying to show at the bottom of the page. I can always see the moon really well and full moons are my favorite so I chose to draw the night of a full moon.

color wheel

A color Wheel using the primary colors to make the secondary and tertiary colors. I wanted them to look like crayons. The warm colors are outlined in red and the cool are outlined in blue. The legend in the bottom right corner tells you that the primary are the ones connected with a solid black line, secondary and connected by a dotted black line and the tertiary are connected by the circle. The word Color is in secondary colors and Wheel is in the primary colors.

watercolor textures

6- texture squares portraying different emotions. The first emotion is confused, then depressed, then surprised, peaceful, irritated and mundane. I used salt to texture the first one, a stick on the second one, the side of a credit card on the third, plastic wrap, wax and a dry brush.