Meet+Mrs.+Steckel

=== Everyone at Ravinia school knows Mrs. Steckel. Whether your painting, printing or, coloring you will always have a good time. Mrs. Steckel is the art teacher she's loads of fun and laughter. Mrs. Steckel loves art because she likes about other people in different countries. she also loves to draw,and learning to make new kinds of art. Mrs. Steckel was inspired by her high school art teacher Mr. Shelenberger. He tought her how to draw, print , and paint. Mrs. Steckel's favorite painting is I and The village by: Marc Chagall. The reason why you can have so much fun with Mrs. Steckel every, is beacuse she is always going to come back to school. She says she does because she loves the student's, the peopleshe works with , making art every day , and seeing things that the student's can make. One thing that Mrs. Steckel does every year is enter kids in the art show. she does this every year, but she says that she only enters kids with exceptional artwork. Mrs. Steckel became an artist by her mom giving her a book so she could learn how to draw many animals. Her favorite was horses, she actually had a hole sketchbook full of horses. The first peice of art she ever made was a ceremic rabbit modeled after her stuffed animal bunny rabbit named buttercup which she claims she still has in her room. her favorite artist to teach kids about is Norman Rockwell. Mrs. Steckel teaches about 30 artists, but not all in the same year. The reason why she keeps doing the same paintings for certain grade levels is because they make good examples for certain grade levels. Isn't Mrs. Steckel awesome !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ===