Art Projects

Did a little stenciling this week in our little art
class.  Samuel is putting some color on the
sponge brush and adding it to the frame.

Claire's finished frame....cute

Cheese!

Cute!

And then I started my own art project.  This is the wet into wet
background for a watercolor of the swamp.  I am going to add a bird
in the branches.  It may be a blue heron, maybe a white egret?

This is the original photograph I am using as a reference.  I took this
years ago when I went all the way through the Atchafalaya in a wooden
boat with Mr. Bob Carroll and Robert Mayeaux.  We went in the fall, as you
can see from the rusty color of the cypress trees.  It took us most of the
day to travel from near Breaux Bridge to Port Allen.  We stopped all
along the way for me to take pictures, like this one.  Fun memories

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Class Time

I had another class yesterday. It was a

watercolor workshop for children. Here

are the proud students with their

creations. They did an abstract design

with masking tape. They masked off

several areas of their paper, and then

painted each section with various techniques

they had learned. They removed the tape

to expose white stripes, which they filled

in with colored pencil, marker, and paint.

They had fun, and I did too1

I heard from John Kemp today, the art

editor from Louisiana Life magazine. He

is planning to come next week and interview

me for an article. I am very excited!

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