Creating life on the blacktop

Here are some fun pictures of the transformation of a small abandoned area on campus at Carpenter Community Charter Elementary.  This "lovely" area was locked up and deserted.  Our beautification team with some help from parents cleaned this area up and we painted and planted and now the kids are making it their own.  Butterflies and Hummingbirds kinda like it too. :) 

before...

Can you find the Hummingbird?

Watering

Butterfly

Planting

Painting

mural in progress 

Inviting!

Creation Station Mural

We love creation station! 

 I got to do this super fun mural inspired by all the cute kids. 

Not quite ripe, but getting there...fruit tree mural

Work in progress on the Fruit Tree Mural....

The best part about the mural is that Sunny and I get to have lunch together.

Blank Walls

My friend Mary gave me this card last night.  She is so thoughtful.  It really made me smile to see this blank wall and what we created together.  Thanks Mary!  Click here to see what I'm talking about.
Carpenter Garden

Fruit Tree Hands Mural sketch

Coming to a school near you!

Jungle mural sketch

Nursery- Jungle 

Children Cartwheel

the outside play yard!!

The Minor Accomplishments of Jackie Woodman

I love the show The Minor Accomplishments of   Jackie Woodman, and Laura Kightlinger is a good friend of ours, and a great supporter of the "arts" ie: me, as we collaborated on this really cool mural on an outside garden wall of her house.  

IFC took advantage of the writers strike and cancelled it like bandits in the middle of the night, leaving the fans like me to wonder "what the hell happened?"  Sign the petition and lets get the show back on the air. Watch the show on u-tube, you won't regret it!

Sign it here (click the title on my blog)
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/woodman/signatures.html

Seahorse Mural at Sunnyside

WOW!  Look at all these helpers!  The kids did great, just imagine 18

 4-5 year olds with buckets of paint in their little hands, yikes!  It turned out so beautiful, a real underwater spectacular spectacle.