Sharing Art with Kids

 It's summer - time for kid's activities at church.  It's been a great week giving 20 elementary age young people a chance to use "real" artist watercolor and watercolor paper for the first time.  They caught the idea that they were painting with water with a little paint.  It was wet on wet with a pinch of salt and voila - the wonder of creating.  We also created giant "fandango" self portrait puppets - what fun!

Marvelous Morning Glories

Instead of painting, I've been working on the organizational end of the Wabash Valley Watercolor Society.  What a wonderful group of artists to be getting involved with here in Lafayette!

The president of the WVWS encouraged all of us to bring something to the meeting tonight and decided it was high time to sit down and paint and get out of my "organizational mode!"  I've been drinking in the beauty of my morning glory photos and decided it was time to paint a few.  Here are my first efforts - one on Yupo, the other on Strathmore 140 lb paper.  It's always a challenge to capture the delicacy of morning glory pets.

Here is the photo I was inspired by - taken in Laguna Beach, California in 2007.