Are You Ready?
"Out-of-the-Blue Monster", mixed media monotype, c. Nancy Mitchell, 2010
Hi there!
Is it just me, or does it seem like the school year came around ‘out of the blue?’ This here is a fun little mixed media monster monotype that I recently made, and it seemed appropriate to post it here. I want you to know that these prints were originally inspired by my 6th grade students from last year -who are now big ole 7th graders 
You guys remember, don’t you? How you love to swirl lots of paint around on a slippery piece of palette paper at clean up time and then press or print it onto some nice white paper? And then we’d all try to guess what it looked like (kind of like a Rohrschach test)?
Well–the monsters came out of that process You might be happy to know that I’ve been selling them pretty regularly at the Visionary Art Museum gift shop (The Sideshow), and that all proceeds go to benefit professional artists in Haiti recovering from the earthquake!
Like all the teachers at Patapsco, I’ve been really busy getting the room ready for all of you. We have a NEW printing press, more silkscreens, lots of clay, paint, charcoal, ink, drawing pencils—and everything else we want to get into this year to make new creative discoveries, advance our skills and HAVE FUN!
See you MONDAY!
