finished 2/2014: noah's ark faux stained-glass, 20x24, acrylics. pace is sick with a cold and hacking cough, so we've been hanging out lounging all day for the past couple of days. too bad--it feels like spring outside! so while the boys have been busy watching the magic school bus and bill nye science guy, i've been busy finishing max's painting. this project dragged on a LONG time, so in part i dreaded doing it, just because it kept. on. going. on the other hand, though, it's been really fun to work on it while the boys are old enough to see what i'm doing and participate. max will walk over and point at the animals he knows and makes the animal sound, and then try and repeat the name of the animal when i tell him what it is. pace will come over and cuddle on my lap to watch me paint, and ask questions about what i'm painting. yesterday while i was painting max toddled over to my paint basket and started pulling out all the paint tubes, naming the colors! then pace joined in, matching up the big and small tubes of the same colors, "look, mom (hack, hack, hack), i did a match!"
this owl series is in my baby's room. he loves saying good morning to them when he gets up! 11x14 store-bought canvas, acrylics.
the following are for a friend's little girl. i have yet to gift them to her. 9x12 water color paper, water color pencils.
the following elephant sketches were for a friend who self-published a children's book. very cute story--the elephant is tired of his heavy trunk, so he gives it to a hippo. the elephant realizes how useful his trunk really is, and gets it back in the end. water color pencils, 9x12 water color paper.
