new week, same thing...?!

It's a brand new week, and I'm gearing up to face the kids again. Last week ended on kind of a nice note. We worked on the same still life all week, using 3 different mediums and surprisingly we got a nice little series from everyone. Now let me not get ahead of myself, some people took this much less serious then others, but from two or three of them I got some interesting art (there's my favorite overused Bennington word, every gosh darn thing was interesting at Bennington), and one even asked for my help in! He asked how his picture was and when I said, "hmm, that looks very nice." he said "NO. I don't want the nice answer, really tell me what you think.".....
WOW, pretty cool kid, way to be interested! Now, his picture was actually one of the best, but he asked for my thoughts and so I told him. We had a really nice conversation about how to use watercolor paint, and some helpful tips that I picked up last weekend....(seeing as watercolors have scared me since high school and i haven't used them since then I had to do a little last minute relearning. But to tell you the truth I really like them!). After we talked and I had shown him some examples of how to use the paints I had him try and he improved!! His work took a step away from where he started! I taught someone something they wanted to learn!!
Oh, look, our little Ms. Mollie is all growed up and teaching kids stuff!

SO! Let's hope this week is as productive as last week, I would say more but I don't want to push it....besides I think I am getting the Middle school class this week which means learn a whole new bunch of kids and that's SCARY AS SHIT!!!! Wish me luck!