Just before we started our "official" school year, my friend Julie taught the kids a little bit about Georgia O'Keefe. The lesson was held in a flower garden with a group of about 9 home school kids. Julie showed some of O'Keefe's paintings and then turned the kids loose in the garden. My boys haven't always been terribly interested in art projects. Their attention span is usually short, so I wasn't sure what to expect. But, to my great delight, they were very much interested in this project. They took their time in selecting the perfect flower to paint and then they both completed very careful, detailed flower paintings using both oil pastels and watercolors. I was quite proud of their work.
Annie started the project but became distracted by her friend Lainey's attempts to make her own painting smell like flowers by rubbing lemon grass leaves on the paper. Then Annie did a few things which made her painting less than what she wanted it to be. Drama followed and the end result was that Annie threw her painting away. It was disappointing because she really was off to a lovely start. Girls.
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