1st day homeschooling

Wow. I am finally withdrawn from Yorktown. It is over and yet it has just begun. I also am pleased to say that I managed to dig in my heels and push my Art grade up to a B (still can't believe it was a D). Life is good, I learned how to disassemble a bunk bed while causing minimal damage to the walls and reassemble it after much collision with door frames, swearing, and chipped nails. This and getting my sister hooked up to the internet with Peter Rabbit Math Lab lessons, yes I am learning so much. Dad also wants us all to install his Rosetta Stone Chinese tapes on our computers and start learning Mandarin (I would prefer French or romance language, but oh well) I did manage to conjour up a few images and headers for some friends in Fireworks (really old version of Adobe) though:

New camera! new sketchbook! New post!

I actually drew this painting in a study in Vangouh something like two years ago, never got around to saving it on a hard drive for back up purposes...
Don't ask why she's crying, she just is!!?!I love graphite!!

Edger Allen Poe and the Murders in the Rue Morgue

I drew these pictures in the second to last school I was in, so that would be sixth or seventh grade I think seventh since I was homeschooled for most of sixth. Anyway we were doing a unit on Edger Allan Poe, and we were listening to some of his stories, we listened to each twice as we answered questions or study guides but those got old really fast so our teachers brought in play dough to help "stimulate the mind" or you had the option of drawing or reading along. At the end of each session anone who had done a craft (the crafts had to go along with the story) could dislap it for a token or ticket thing that we could turn in at the end of the week for a candy bar or some other treat. So I ended up drawing Madame l'Espanaye and her daugher Miss Camille L'Espanaye , the two murder victems in Murders in the Rue Morgue--great story--The Madame had been thrust out the window and crushed on the cobble stone below with lots of bruises and had her head detatched from her body, and she also happened to clutching a tuft of hair; Miss Camille had been shoved up the chimney and also fashion and array of bruises, on top of being covered in soot. Here were my interpretations:
Madame L'Espanaye
And Miss Camille