Some Wilt-Related Stuff...Of Course - Never Forgotten: a Foster's Home Community

pitbulllady · 04-20-2008, 02:13 PM

First up...I debated whether this was pure "fan art" or not, but since it's large(about eight feet long)and partly includes a background made and cut out by students, I put it here. It's a "mural" of sorts, made from cut paper(and a simulated jellyfish made of a balled-up clear plastic trash bag) and crayons and markers, that adorns the wall between the two doors to my classroom at one of my schools, the one with the younger grades. Some of the teachers got together and thought it would be neat to have a school-wide mural that would sort of "tie" the various rooms and halls together, and they figured that an undersea theme would be cute. So, they set about making hundreds of copies of one same little fish, having their homeroom students color them and cut them out, and then taped them to strips of blue bulletin board paper. Now, being the ART teacher, I couldn't go with the same-old, same-old, so here's MINE:

Yes, Wilt is wearing a swim fin on his stump of a left arm. I got that idea from a "Shark Week" program on the Discovery Channel, in which they interviewed some 80-year-old guy who is a world-champion long-distance swimmer, in spite of having had his left arm bitten off, at about the same place that Wilt's has been amputated, by a Bull shark. He refused to let that make him afraid of swimming, and he wears a modified swim fin strapped to the stump of his arm, and yes, he's still competing. Did I mention he was 80 years old?

Next up is a Wilt keychain I made today while doing the laundry, because I was bored, and I wanted to try out this Sculpey Bendable Clay I'd bought over a year ago and never done much with. Unfortunately, the flash washed it out a bit, making it hard to see his eyes, but they're there. This stuff seems pretty tough and sturdy, though I found out earlier with an experimental piece that if you actually cook it for as long as the directions recommend, and at the temperatures they recommend, it will scorch and turn black!

pitbulllady

04-20-2008, 02:13 PM	#1
pitbulllady Co-Administrator Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: South Carolina Posts: 2,276	Some Wilt-Related Stuff...Of Course First up...I debated whether this was pure "fan art" or not, but since it's large(about eight feet long)and partly includes a background made and cut out by students, I put it here. It's a "mural" of sorts, made from cut paper(and a simulated jellyfish made of a balled-up clear plastic trash bag) and crayons and markers, that adorns the wall between the two doors to my classroom at one of my schools, the one with the younger grades. Some of the teachers got together and thought it would be neat to have a school-wide mural that would sort of "tie" the various rooms and halls together, and they figured that an undersea theme would be cute. So, they set about making hundreds of copies of one same little fish, having their homeroom students color them and cut them out, and then taped them to strips of blue bulletin board paper. Now, being the ART teacher, I couldn't go with the same-old, same-old, so here's MINE: Yes, Wilt is wearing a swim fin on his stump of a left arm. I got that idea from a "Shark Week" program on the Discovery Channel, in which they interviewed some 80-year-old guy who is a world-champion long-distance swimmer, in spite of having had his left arm bitten off, at about the same place that Wilt's has been amputated, by a Bull shark. He refused to let that make him afraid of swimming, and he wears a modified swim fin strapped to the stump of his arm, and yes, he's still competing. Did I mention he was 80 years old? Next up is a Wilt keychain I made today while doing the laundry, because I was bored, and I wanted to try out this Sculpey Bendable Clay I'd bought over a year ago and never done much with. Unfortunately, the flash washed it out a bit, making it hard to see his eyes, but they're there. This stuff seems pretty tough and sturdy, though I found out earlier with an experimental piece that if you actually cook it for as long as the directions recommend, and at the temperatures they recommend, it will scorch and turn black! pitbulllady