I have a couple of teaching credentials- English and Digital Media- so naturally I am teaching a middle school art class. My students are currently studying the most important of art skills: creating cartoon mascots for terrible fake cereals. We developed a couple of them as a class. The first was an unnamed hamburger fellow.
![Two drawings of cartoon hamburgers. One looks dangerous.](https://www.ga2so.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/IMG_4030-768x1024.jpg)
I was particularly pleased with the drippy cheese nose. The smaller version was an attempt make him look more like a fun mascot and less like a failed genetic experiment.
The second was this sentient ice cream cone:
![Hey kids! I.C. Kreme ponders his existence!](https://www.ga2so.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/69828045162__C2BD2720-4C4A-4C68-ACC8-932620126B98-1024x768.jpg)
As you can see, my teaching philosophy is “education is serious.”