I go to Towson University for art education. I am currently student teaching, and will graduate in May 2012! This blog documents teaching experiences, ideas, and some of my personal artwork.
All artworks for sale- to inquire email drummond.nicole@gmail.com. Commissions also are welcome. www.nicoledrummond.com
Nicole Drummond
Slowly updating my website, adding more information, adding more work.
I’m figuring out how to organize things better, how to title the images. It’s a slow process, but I’m getting there…
I love the way a sketchbook/journal gets once it is almost full— crinkled pages, stained pages, pages sticking outside of the edges. You can tell it has been used, has been the the receptacle for creativity. Keeping a sketchbook/journal is so freeing. Sometimes I draw, mostly I write, and put in inspiring images. This is my favorite one to look through, because it has been my most successful mesh of a sketchbook and journal thus far. It’s almost complete, after a little under a year. I need to work on sketching/doodling more inside, though not necessarily writing less. My printmaking sketchbook is good too, though that needs more on the writing side. I think good sketchbooks invite outsiders to look into them— to delve into the author’s/artist’s mind.
#fatreblog
This is what I miss the most being vegetarian and lactose intolerant. Bacon & cheese fries.
(Source: foodawesomeness)
Later this week I will queue up some posts about the two units I taught this past semester!
One was a mixed media fall setting unit with third graders, the other was a postage stamp inspired relief printing unit with 7th/8th graders!
Both were great experiences. All of the artwork turned out great!
Expect more posts like these next semester when I start student teaching!
Entering 3 pieces into a juried show on Thursday! I’ll know Saturday which ones (if any) were accepted. Wish me luck!
This is the kind of room I want to have when I move out. I think this is not uncommon for teachers, or artists.
Art on the walls, stacks of books, inspirational quotes or images, and ideally, a floor that can get messed up from all of the art you will be creating in there. :)
(Source: aplaceidliketocallhome)
A in 4 classes, A- in 2! Dean’s List for the 5th semester in a row, 6th semester total. (I only was NOT on the Dean’s List for 3 semesters.)
Semester GPA of 3.897, cumulative GPA of 3.7 exactly! I should probably add that this was the most difficult semester to date, with an insane amount of work, teaching two units, taking two studio classes, plus writing papers and everything else… CRAZY.
That was my goal was to graduate with a 3.7. It’ll go up a *tiny* bit next semester with my professional seminar grade, but student teaching doesn’t affect your gpa, just satisfactory/unsatisfactory. It’s a shame that I got a 3.3 my first two semesters at Towson, that brought my whole GPA down. Since then it’s been above a 3.5 (and quite a few semesters it was above a 3.85!)
I’m not going to complain about a 3.7, though. :)
