Faculty Art Exhibition

I am an art teacher at a middle school in Missouri City, TX.  The district that I work in put on an art exhibition strictly for faculty art work!  I still have most of my art packed away from the move, or it is traveling on exhibition right now, so I decided to make something new.  I love to do birds!  I am considering doing a series with "things with wings".  In any event, here is my artwork that I did for the show!  "Ramphastos Sulfuratus" (Keel-Billed Toucan)  The crazy thing is that I drew this out like three years ago, and just hadn't gotten around to painting and quilting it.  Yay, I can scratch one UFO off the list!


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  2. ShayJanuary 2, 2019 at 10:11 PM

    Nneka!!! It's you - and OF COURSE you're doing the art thing. So proud of you. Beautiful art.

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