Art Class Update

Art class is coming right along. The students are doing excellent work! We have so much fun - I just love art class!

One of the projects we did this month was a still life painting of a pumkin. They got to choose their background color and then we all painted the same pumpkin.

M's painting is blue, T's is dark brown, and EG's is the lighter brown

K's pumpkin


N's pumpkin

K's masterpiece - fabulous!

Elizabeth painted this one...she did a great job! I hardly helped at all!

N painted this adorable mouse - isn't it just precious?

My Students!

Two weeks ago, I started teaching an art class to some of my friends' kids. I have 4 students all together - ranging from 12 to 9. We really have fun! They are doing super fabulous! 2 of them finished their paintings this week. The other two will most likely finish their next week.

Take a look at their masterpieces! Are they not awesome? I'm so proud!

M and his masterpiece monkey

Elizabeth and her flower - she painted her name on there all by herself!

Painting People

I painted this last summer for a close friend. I turned a picture of the girls into this painting. I gotta say though that the thing that makes this picture is the frame - it's adorable!

I did a picture for another close friend - it was the back of her son and his little dog looking out the window. Silly me forgot to take a picture...*cough*.

I haven't mastered faces...they scare me. I'm pretty comfortable with the backs of people but faces-yikes!

This was my first attempt at a face. It ended up looking a lot like the original I was copying. I wasn't that nervous with this one though because it wasn't a real girl. No one would know if the eyes and nose weren't quite right. I was creating my own person instead of reproducing the looks of a real person. Does that even make sense? Oh well, you get the idea.

I tried faces again last winter. I cheated this time though - I didn't have to do eyes because of sunglasses. =) Yes, I know it's weird for a painting to have sunglasses on. That's okay though because I wanted to see if I could do the rest of the facial features. I'll build up to the full thing.

This is the picture I copied - it's me and my sister in Cozumel, Mexico.

This is how the painting turned out. It's okay. I definitely don't love it. I know it's my first attempt and I should be more lax in my judgement...yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm not planning on doing any faces for a while. I won't say never because I'll try it again but I'm not feeling it anytime in the near future.

Oh and so far, everyone who as seen it has asked who it is. No one has straight up recognized us. =(

A Parade in Paris

This oil painting is my newest. I finished it in January, right before I left for Guatemala. I absolutely love it! This is my new favorite style of painting. I love way the people looks so whimsical and the street is airy and happy and it's in my favorite colors!

I have a new scene that is similar to this but involves a street cafe in Paris that I will be starting as soon as I find the time. I'm not sure if I will do it in acrylics or oils. It will be by special request for a friend.

Who knew Paris could be so pretty on canvas? I've been there and didn't find the city all that beautiful. Dirty, yes but beautiful? Nope.