Painting - see one, paint one

I met some friends for dinner at Ken's Artisan Pizza - it was fantastic, by the way - and saw these paintings on the wall. I thought 1. that they looked pretty cool, and B) that I could do something similar with watercolors.  

This is my much, much, much smaller version.  I tried a larger one, too, but it was less successful so I'm going to have to revise my methods for that one.  But I very much like the end product.  

Shrinky Dink Christmas Ornaments

Featuring characters from some of our favorite picture books

(from left to right) Hippos Go Berserk, The Duckling Gets a Cookie, and The Adventures of Beekle

 

Sea Sheep art project

We saw this little guy somewhere and it occurred to me that we could take my love of all things made by my kid with my kid's love of all things art and come up with an art project.  Which is what we did!  I broke out my scrapbooking supplies and Hen got his modeling clay and tools and the end result is just pure kid art perfection.  

Summer 2019, week eight - pictorial

Kids Gogh Art Studio

instructor's area

Ah nuts. Looks like mom can't go get coffee.

Art student HFG

background color

first cloud drawn sort of looked like someone giving the middle finger

focused

finished product - one Harry Potter-inspired rain cloud painting

Summer 2018, week two - pictorial

Perler bead activity inspired by the video game Phoenix II

Ride into work with papa and catch a World Cup match day

Mount St. Helens visit with Molly and Beren

The two yutes on a log at Coldwater Lake, our picnic destination

Mama and kid and mountain

Another view of Coldwater Lake

Hiking LEGOs were with us

Portland Art Museum's The Shape of Speed exhibit

Cool car pic #1

Cool car pic #2 - It's a Bugatti!

I like this for reasons I can't explain

Hen checks out George Washington

We've got a Kehinde Wiley!

This piece exhilarates and scares me because of those ghost-like faces in the background

Sleepover with Eliav!

The non-smartphone version of Pokemon Go

Pokemon go is all the craze right now but I don't have a smartphone. We found out today that with a box of chalk and a book filled with pictures of Pokemon characters we can absolutely make up our own game that is almost as good.

Of course, there are pictures... (and there will be even more once we walk to the store and pick up more chalk so we can keep drawing.)