Not too mention, it has been over a year for our family to be a whole, why not make some art to celebrate.
As you may or may not know we just built a new home a year ago in March. In this glorious dream house of ours, I had an art nook built in the wall by our entry. It is lined with wood planks of siding that we had left from the outside of our house. There is a small pot light above to highlight this ultimate masterpiece. I bought a large, rectangle canvas to fit this spot and have had it leaned up inside of it waiting for the right time to strike me to do this. After a few months of being untouched I got out my acrylics and brushes and sat them by the canvas thinking that would get it done..it didn't
With it now being July and my kids are missing art from school they urged me to do it. Yesterday morning I said, "Let's do it!" I didn't do any prepping to the canvas but I did do some tea stained drips to the background.
Then I laid it on the floor(yes, outside would have been best but when the creative mood strikes, my mind makes no room for order or prep really) and sat the kids around it. I sketched out what I had thought of doing, each kid painting their flower and I would paint the vase..
I had them close their eyes and envision the shape of their bloom. I said, "ok now pick some colors and color it in" "Seal it in your mind..got it? ok let's paint it" They picked their main color and went to work in their area. After a while I could tell that what I had thought wasn't going to work. Jersey's flower was very low and the vase would have covered it up. So we made the brown be the dirt and the flowers coming up from that. It turned out better than I could have dreamed.
I did have each one tell me how to outline their bloom and how to give it detail. I did that with black ink in a dropper. It's wonderful! Beautiful! Priceless! I have been going to gaze at it multiple times a day! It's so wonderful. Thank you God for my many blessings. You are better to me than I am to myself.
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