My animal and insect illustrations come on a white background or on a black background. As I've been putting my Digital Download ABCs Art Brain Breaks Books together I've made a bunch of copies to work on layout and things and to see what they look like printed out. During this process, of course, I ran out of toner like three times. I do like my laser printer and it's great, although you can see in these cut outs the black was on its last legs. Rather than throwing away any

This is axolotl coloring project was a group effort by about 7-8 3rd graders who worked toward earning an art lesson by me on how to use my drawing program, on my iPad, using my ABCs animal character, "A is for Axolotl", where each student had the same set of instructions I gave all of them at the same time. They knew we only had enough time for each student to spend 5 minutes drawing on their own on the iPad, so they decided to pick one of my images to color and let each per

The kids in this class were so full of personality and specific interests I was amazed at all the ways they decided to communicate with me during my time visiting as their substitute teacher. The Special Education Teacher's Assistant ran the class like a well oiled machine and the kids love her. One student, who did not speak, was particularly fond of drawing and sat for most of the day coloring and drawing all sorts of ideas throughout the day. I offered him one of my Atla