My first time Hourly Comic Day-ing.
That was hard. I gave up and didn’t do 10:00 or 11:00.
teaching
The various smells of my working life
Perhaps you noticed, I missed a post or two! I am a busy girl now, with three out of four of these things active. So, I am shifting my update schedule to coincide with free evenings. From now on, it’s Mondays & Thursdays!
4-year-old guest artist collaborators
My schedule has gotten rather packed and I’m not 100% certain that I can keep posting twice a week. So enjoy this filler post where I outsource my drawing task to my ~4-year-old piano students at the Old Town School.
I give kids five minutes of interpretive crayon-ing while I play a piece by a different composer each week. Sometimes the kids have pretty bizarre interpretations, like once a kid thought my Fur Elise sounded like Grandpa Dancing. Perhaps it’s a comment on my clunky playing. But this time, I played Prelude from Suite Bergamasque by Debussy, and one girl exclaimed, “I hear butterflies!” And Margaret produced yet another appropriately Impressionist masterpiece:
So that all makes me feel a little better about my playing.
fix it with shading 