Last week I went and did an Earth Day project with the Woog’s kindergarten class and we made Junk A Doodles®.

The Old School exhibit is going on now at Uppercase Gallery. My piece is there and for sale here. The above is an article I found (photo via uppercase on Flickr) that features my piece. My piece was also chosen as the backcover of the book. You can see great images from the exhibition here.

I finished up my Old School piece for Uppercase Gallery. I’m please with how it turned out (you can click on the images for a larger view).

Here’s the front:

Here’s a looky-loo behind the key:

And here’s the back (what school desk would be complete without old chewing gum underneath?):

I’m participating in the Uppercase Gallery’s “Old School” project and the deadline is Tuesday. Although I’ve know what I was going to do for a while and have been collecting pieces here and there, I sat down today and started playing with the layout and see what new items I could find. I made the background look like an old school desk and am going to collage items on it. Everything looks a little bland and although they are vintage, I still need color so I’m playing with how to punch it up.

One of my favorite finds for this project is an old school photo album of my Grandmother’s. She dated it May 24th 1936 on the back. Her picture is inside but she would have been 19 at the time so this book may be filled with students she taught then. I’ll have to ask her about it. I am including one of the photos in the piece but I’m reproducing it and then using it. Check back on Tuesday to see the final piece!