It’s so quiet

All of us were busy painting and Olivia says “it’s so quiet” and it was, everyone was concentrating.  Fun weekend with the little girls—they will argue that they are big girls—I’m just not ready for big girls.  They brought over their bag of stuff—things to do at grandmas— they had paints and brushes…….I reached for some art paper from the closet and I found the prang paints that I bought special for them because the colors are so much brighter.  Is there anything more discouraging to a young artist than anemic looking paint on cheap paper?!!? Nice mixed media paper I cut the sheets in 4, bright pure paints eventually I will get them better brushes.  I showed them how to drip water into each color to moisten the paint. They were very serious about each drop of water. I was painting water on my paper for a sky, Madeline asked why I was doing that I told her and showed her how the colors would mix and spread on the wet paper.  She said that’s a good idea so she tried it. Later I was mixing a green on the lid she asked again what was I doing she thought mixing paint that way was a good idea too and tried it.  To see their little creative minds at work. Then they asked me to cut out more paper dolls to paint so I did. —Ann—