Mark Graham
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I am a person who really likes to read and write and to share what I learned with all my education. My page will mainly be book reviews and critiques of old and new books that I have read and will read. There will also be other bits, too.
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Cat's Eye
How would you color this page if presented to you. I saw a page of eyes looking back at me and I thought why not color the eyes many different colors then just lightly use a gray crayon over the whole page. Though it is too late now I just had a thought that I should have used black to outline the noses and mouths of each of these cats. There are several cats with orange, black, blue, orange, yellow and green. I believe that this sheet could be used in preschool math to count how many cats have green or yellow eyes as an example. Please comment.
By Mark Graham2 years ago in Critique
Flowers of One Kind
'Flowers of One Kind' is my title for this coloring page. I used my crayons of reds, yellow, orange and blues for the flowers and of course greens for the leaves and brown for the stems. Each flower has a partner for they are big and little. This one could be an art lesson on colors as well as a math lesson on big and little for preschool. I even tried various strokes to show my attempt at shading. Please comment.
By Mark Graham2 years ago in Critique
All Shapes
'All Shapes' really is a picture of all kinds of shapes from circles, squares, rectangles, triangles and ovals. Shapes from very small to large. At times there were even more advanced shapes in the picture. See if you can find them if you want to. I used my actual crayons for a brighter and colorful picture that is totally abstract.
By Mark Graham2 years ago in Critique
Geometrics
This is a page of circles in various odd positions and generally odd shapes throughout. I used crayons in this work for a more vivid view of these shapes using blues, reds, yellows and greens. Also, I tried to follow patterns with some of the odd shapes as with the blue, red, purple colors up and down the page. Please comment.
By Mark Graham2 years ago in Critique
All Kinds of Flowers
Here is a picture from another adult coloring book that was just a drawing of many flowers, berries and leaves. I used my colored pencils bring color to these blooms. As you can see the colors are pink, blues, yellow, greens and orange. I tried to smudge some of the colors to make some of the flowers more realistic if that is the right word. Please comment.
By Mark Graham2 years ago in Critique
The Wyrm King. Top Story - June 2024.
'The Wyrm King' the third and final volume of Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black. In this volume the fantastical characters are really showing themselves and their various talents. Nick and Laurie and family and still learning and making compromises as well as promises trying to be kept in helping the Nixie's and the other people and entities. Nick along with all the others learn how to help each other past and present. Once again Holly Black's artwork would make great coloring pages. All of these books thanks to Tony and Holly were great show and tell books for all ages.
By Mark Graham2 years ago in Critique
A Giant Problem
'A Giant Problem' is book two of Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black. In this story Nick and Laurie are still trying to help the Nixie's, but another adventure issue pervades their activities in helping them while more fantastical characters are introduced. Nick and Laurie are still learning more about family and friends and working through various ideas and issues. They meet an old man named Noseeum Jack who has a few stories for them. Again, Holly Black's artwork depicts various scenes really well and again would make great coloring pages.
By Mark Graham2 years ago in Critique
The Nixie's Song
'The Nixie's Song' is Book One of a three volume series of Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles created by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black. 'The Nixie's Song' is the story of how Nick Vargas learns all about the magical world that no one else can see. Nick has a few issues that he needs to figure out family wise. His father meets someone and things change. He meets his new stepsister Laurie and a few other things begin to happen that can be somewhat unexplainable. This is a fast paced read and basically for the youth readers out there, but I found them interesting for adults could learn from them too. The illustrations that Holly created were well detailed and I thought they would make good coloring pages.
By Mark Graham2 years ago in Critique
Gregg Shorthand
Here is a snippet from McGuffey's Eclectic Readers as this one is from the Primer. Quite a while ago I was going to start offering readings and maybe lessons in the subject, but other projects and ideas came first. Please comment on this and let me know if you or anyone would be interested in learning and reading more in Gregg shorthand. I have all the textbooks dealing with Diamond Jubilee Series. Also, I am planning on writing more from the McGuffey's and other textbooks that I have collected from my other studies. I know that Gregg shorthand is an obsolete course, but to me it's like figuring out secret code.
By Mark Graham2 years ago in Critique
Teacher & Child
Dr. Haim G. Ginott wrote an academic book entitled 'Teacher & Child' which is a book that I had read for a teacher education course in the late eighties or the early nineties. The course was believe it or not 'Teaching Reading in the Elementary Classroom. This is a book that covers various ideas that a teacher should do and not do in their various classrooms. There are various vignettes throughout the book explaining proper procedures and policies that all teachers must follow liking them or not. After re-reading this book again and seeing it from the angle of a writer it brought back a few memories of my early education. There was a vignette about a social studies teacher Mr. R (I also had a teacher Mr. R) that seemed to compare his class to another easier class if you did not like his way of teaching, which was lecture and discussion versus drawing maps and completing study guides in that other class. In the end I am glad I had his class and learned a lot. 'Teacher & Child' is really all about communication in how and how not to communicate with other teachers, parents, students and administrators. This book may be old but I believe it can still hold up in today's classrooms.
By Mark Graham2 years ago in Critique
Lizard
Who likes lizards? Lizards are usually greens or browns, but I made this one light blue, yellow, purple and yes for realistic sense brown and green. There this lizard sits on a log seemingly watching a dragonfly hovering over summer flowers of yellow, orange and red. I kind of pictured this lizard swishing his tail in hopes of bringing the dragonfly closer that is why I used light blue for most of the tail for a sense of flow.
By Mark Graham2 years ago in Critique
Horse
This is a picture of a horse that I pictured as a unicorn minus one horn. With the use of vivid colors of yellow, blue, green, and red I think I pulled off the unicorn idea. I could see a unicorn even though it is a horse walking through the flowers of red, pink, blue and purple picking up more colors on an autumn day with the wind blowing for how I colored the sky to show movement of the sun and clouds. Please comment.
By Mark Graham2 years ago in Critique
