Well, maybe that title was a bit presumptuous. We don’t fancy ourselves professional artists here, but I did ask Jen to recommend art supplies to buy with our charter school money (and bought everything she said was best, despite the kids’ ages). The big order came in this week, and we pulled out our new fancy supplies while Janie was taking her Sunday afternoon nap. I gave a huge lecture on proper use of paintbrushes, we watched some youtube videos and looked through a learn-to-watercolor paint book, and we were all set to start when Janie woke up and demanded to participate. So I pulled out the cheap crayola paints and brushes for the little girls while the big kids and I tried to channel our inner artist (that being hopeless in my case, I stuck with making a nice, grassy hill). Tommy went Virginia Lee Burton on us, painting an idyllic country scene, then a bleak urban one, then asked, “Which place would you rather live in?” Elizabeth did a sunrise and a beach.
