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Ok, So I am student teaching and having an amazing time. My Art II class is learning about abstraction in my very first, full fledged, actual lesson. I was so inspired by their work that I had to do the assignment myself and what resulted was this idea to paint an entire piece in the span of an album.

Now I would have preferred to do this at a live show, but I had to go with what I had and that was one of my favorite bands - Pale Blue Dot (www.palebluedot.org - guess who designed the website - hmm hmm hmmm?). So I taped the experience in the hopes of developing a kind of “audition tape” to send to some local musicians so that soon I could actually paint at some live shows. So I web cammed the experience on my handy dandy Macbook, put the thing in fast forward and uploaded it to youtube.com. Check it out:

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qc_G-3pQT8E

Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYCQItml8us

So there has been some development. It seems that there is a possibility of me painting the 29th in lynn to the sounds of The Traveling Riverside Band - I will post more info when I have it. I am also in talks of possibly doing some album art with my high school friend Andy Telles’ band. I also am in early talks with another band about a May 4th gallery show. I’d link them, but it is still a little early - but they are amazing.

There are countless other leads thanks to my marketing guru Amanda. (You rock!) I will keep this updated with my art happenings. All I can really say is that:

DARE TO HAVE AN IDEA - Then make it happen somehow. People respond to passion, and that has got to be why this whole thing has been working out.

To any of my students who find this: THANK YOU for allowing me in your classroom and in your lives, it has been a truly amazing experience and I have been inspired in more ways than you could imagine. Keep an eye here and keep in contact with me.

So Werd out for now, as long as I am living I will be creating ~Mr.Y