Art Masterpiece

I'm a little behind on blogging and this actually was done about a month ago.

This is Dax's interpretation (right) of Edward Hopper's painting "Groundswell". I have been helping in his classroom this school year with the Art Masterpiece program. Chandler school district does not have a true art program, so they have parents come in once a month and teach a lesson about an assigned artist and painting. It is fun to see what the kids come up with after they are taught the lesson and art principles.


For this project the kids were using watercolor so we put newspaper on their desks so they didn't make a mess on their desks. I walked by Dax and he had a newspaper that just happened to have one of Curtis' Real Estate ads on it. I pointed to it and asked him who that was. He got all excited and said "WOW my Dad is starting to get famous" Then he pulled out the newspaper and went around and showed his whole class and the substitute teacher. He was telling everyone that his Dad was the boss of a Realty Company called Curtis Johnson Realty, his Dad was Curtis Johnson. He was really proud. Then I heard other kids say, "My Dad isn't in the newspaper" I didn't know it would cause a raucous in the class. I just thought he would like to see a picture of his Dad before he smeared paint all over.