With both of my kids now in school full time, I'm really enjoying my volunteer time at their school. April 1st is our annual  "Spri...

I love how unique each painting turned out even though the students were working from the same subject and color palette. Our prior painti...

We started our first paintings on canvas this week, I'm so excited with the early stages of all the paintings that I can't wait for ...

We had a fabulous lesson in shading last week. We spent the first half of the class performing exercises to better familiarize ourselves wi...

We have a couple of birthdays coming up on the weekend and with Christmas around the corner its time to start thinking about gifts. I love t...

This week we were painting views of the garden as seen through the studio windows. The kids used oil pastels to draw with and then water col...

Blind contour line drawings are great warm up exercises, and one of my favorite ways to get kids to slow down and observe their subjects and...