Budding Artists

Last night the girls and I had a huge treat, we attended a DaVinci and Dessert fundraising event hosted by their school. Knowing how much both girls love art (after out art unit last summer) we splurged and chose to attend an event with a professional artist, dessert and a take home art canvas of our very own. 

Here are some pictures I snapped during our girls night out.

Ready and waiting

Lydia and Mommy did the sketching

A family fun time

Concentration

Starting to look good

Finished Product

So proud of their work

Admittedly, I am not in love with the subject matter of the painting but the event was fun, unique and special. We all had a great time and it was definitely a night well spent. I would attend again in a heartbeat.

Summer Art Series: Color

Lydia is very interested in art so this summer we are having art lessons at home.  We started our art series out by studying color.

The girls both made a color wheel with paint.

 Then we spent a lot of time having fun with medicine droppers and food coloring.  They spent a great deal of time enjoying mixing all the various colors.

I am so far from being an art expert.  In fact I am a pretty awful artist but I found a lot of great resources at the libarary and some online resources as well. 

I found an entire series called How Artists Use by Paul Flux.  The series includes 4 book that we are going through.  I also borrowed Getting To Know All About Art which is a playaway view all in one video player which has four different videos which seem to go right along with the books.

My favorite web site that I am using for the summer is Mrs. Browns Art Class.


Feel free to let me know about other great resources.