Kids and Art

Every once in a while, when Roxane is out at class or something, I drag the kids into my studio and we do art. They are very happy doing art; this is something I've learned about kids. They almost always are ready to draw or paint.

A funny thing about kids and watercolor. They want their paints very runny. I don't know whether this is from using gouache in school or what, but I've noticed time and time again working with elementary aged children that they will carefully fill those watercolor pans up to the brim with water to get a nice soupy watercolor mix.

August working on a Penguin Painting
Miranda working on her perspective

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New Location

2006 brings some new changes to the Olympia Report. Check out :

http://www.olyarts.com/waldron/olympiareport/olyreport.html

for the latest.

Voting Day

Today was a vopting day in Olympia. We had to vote on an additional parcel tax to help cover school expenses for the Olympia School District. The issue was broken into two pieces of two different lengths of time (2 years versus four years), difering amounts of levy and different earmekrs for what the levy would be spent on (capital expenses, operating expenses, and technology expenses).

To make matters worse, this was a mail-in ballot (you could also drop it off at City Hall), but you had to mark your ballot with a dark pen -- after years of training a Number 2 pencil was insufficient, tear off the serial number tab, insert into the security envelope, but that into the mailing envelop, affix the stamps (because the 1st class letter rate wentup at the beginning of the month) and get it to be postmarked by today.

I wonder if I was the only one who was expecting Ed McMahon to show up on my doorstep with a big cardboard check. I'm not sure, but it's possible I re-subscribed to Woodchuck Monthly magazine...

Two Whole Days!!

We've seen the sun two days in a row now in Olympia. This is big news. We had something like fifty-plus days in a row of rain and overcast skies. Thank goodness I have relatives and friends who are seriously ill, so I can travel to exotic locals like New Jersey and California and see the sun.