Weekend Homework

So I did my 10 page reading this morning, pp.67-77. It was good stuff. Gave me ideas for my teaching.

Painted a colorwheel grid using my Tempera Fine paints from the art supply store in Florence called Zecchi. I'm blown away by the potentcy and fineness of these three tubes of paint: cyan, magenta and giallo (yellow). Luscious, gorgeous, subtle colors are possible with just these three primary colors.
Put some of the photos I've taken online at costco and sent the order off 'to print' ...with 'torn edges'...so we'll see what that looks like! They'll be ready within the hour, so I'm going to head on out soon and get some groceries there too. I'm a little concerned about getting all the work required done for this course, such as what kind of lesson plan do I want to create? I'm not teaching a language, or science course or history course...I'm teaching art. Other than copying the lessons I'm learning I'm not sure how I'll do anything differently. I feel like I'm a slowpoke! I want to take more time, make better samples, do things over. Usually I'm the first one done, but this time it's different. I don't know why I have a sense of struggle, but there it is. Grade anxiety, maybe. Just want to do my best and not sure what that 'best' is supposed to look like. If I need to create a journal for someone else to look through, does it have to make sense to them or just to me? Does it need to be all spacious and gorgeous or can it by cryptic and messy? I have trouble distilling thoughts and then using beautiful artistic penmanship to make my thoughts look 'designed'...though I LOVE that look. My notes are little bursts of thoughts, with cloud-like bubbles drawn around them, underlined words, words with boxes drawn around them, arrows that point you from one place to another...a true map of my short-attention spanned mind!

Ok, just getting these words out on paper reassures me that I'm doing ok and to not sweat it.