Pass the Pencil – Making Art Accessible
How can I make art accessible to my children? – the young one, the reluctant one, the inexperienced one? I …
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The Teaching Artist
So far this week, I have highlighted the artwork of my husband and my two daughters. This post – fourth …
Artist in Residence
PX, my second daughter, is my hightlighted artist of the day; she likes to paint. Her chosen medium is wooden …
The Reluctant Artist
Today I’ll be highlighting the artwork of my first daughter – particularly her drawing. When she was a younger girl …
A House of Artists
This week I’ll be blogging about the theme: art in our home and family. Each day I will feature a …
R.I.P. – A Cemetery Story
I privately tutor my daughters at home; this is also known as home-schooling. One morning several years ago, I was taking …
Paper Birch Trees and Creative Kids
Last Friday I again taught an art lesson to a roomful of 1st through 3rd graders. We learned about primary colors, secondary …
Painted Salmon and Fragrant Garlic Rice
This month I am teaching art classes for a group of 1st through 3rd graders. Last week we worked on …
Inviting
This week in our home we focused on a new vocabulary word – inviting. We learned that inviting means: offering …
A Raccoon on the Fence
This afternoon while standing at the kitchen sink, I glanced out the window and saw a raccoon on the fence. …
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