Except for the Grade 5 commencement on Wednesday, June 13, today was my last day at school for the year. And this was my final art project. I worked VERY hard on it and think I deserve an "A," at least for effort! The assignment was to choose a photo of a zoo animal, draw the contour in pencil, with imaginative designs inside the animal. We were then to paint it using tempera paints and a limited palette. The idea was to try to make it look like Australian Aboriginal art. When we'd finished painting, we cut out the animal and pasted it to a piece of construction paper, our choice of color.This was an especially fun project for me because we were using print-outs of photos I'd taken at the Detroit Zoo last autumn. I chose the peacock--click here to see the original photo--and worked on this painting for three full days. As the kids said, I was lucky because I could take my time with it.

See what a hard volunteer job I have??!!