Happy Valentine's Day!

Love Rut

8x11.5"

Acrylic/ Caran d'ache

Happy Valentine's Day from Roberto Romo and myself! This piece was the Valentine's Day cover for San Jose newspaper El Observador. Our first Tag-Team Illustration. We had so much fun working together, we will be creating a new illustration for a series on married life every Monday. See you all next Monday!

Summit Self- Portraits

Here are some more Summit Narrative Self-Portraits. Hope you enjoyed them all! I can't wait til May when we start working with multiple figures in a composition and start studying Diego Rivera's murals.

Summit Self-Narratives

The same students were later asked to create their own narrative self-portraits using all the skills they learned. Here are some of the stories they shared with me.

Frida Value Studies

Hey all! My sincere apologies for being GONE from the art scene since who knows when. I have been a busy busy busy bee. As you all know by now I have been working with children and teens since January 2012. I recently got a teaching position for Summit High School, where I taught a 2 part course I designed called Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera: A Marriage of Mexican Art. This January my students focused on Frida Kahlo's art. This is the first painting they produced: value study master copies with their own face embedded in the portrait. These talented young artists are only 14 and 15!

Advantika the Smarty Pants

I have been working with children since January. I teach them art. They teach me patience. I love working with them and seeing my old-young self in them. I've been so busy being a working mom, that I have left little time and energy for my own art. But, when I go to work I see so much passion in these kids I am refreshed. It has helped me find myself as an artist again. I am working on my own book now.

This is a girl in my Wednesday class that is very "sociable," as she puts it. She talks all day but is such a joy. She says she's so busy doing so many things she has no time for herself. I know she plays piano and draws and paints. She gave me a list of other classes she's taking but I simply forgot. I owe her a drawing because she was able to stay quiet one class period. This is her, as I imagine, playing her piano. Tomorrow I give it to her. It was a quick 1 hour drawing but it felt good to use my imagination again!