Middle School Cliques colorado slate blues and gray tones

slate blues and gray tones surround me

But when it came back the last time

Mixed media (watercolor

It is a happy painting that evokes my childhood's carefree summer days

Ornamental Grass One is an original cyanotype on archival watercolor paper

Middle School Cliques colorado slate blues and gray tonesMixed media (acrylic, paper, and ink). 16" x 32" on cradled birch panel. For junior high, I switched schools and found the whole experience rather jarring. Gone was the small classroom with friends I'd had since kindergarten. My new school seemed huge, with changing classrooms and teachers every hour, and strangers all around. Middle School Cliques is my impression of school those first weeks, with the world around me so gray and frightening. Even the