Just Another Day In Paradise

Our grandbaby CJ

This awesome picture of our 1 1/2 year old grandbaby CJ was sketched by our 15 year old son Joseph with his Sketching Pencil Set. He's been sketching a lot lately since I bought Drawing: Faces & Features a few weeks ago. I would really love for him to sketch all 9 of us and our newest little grandbaby Brookelynn Anne. He is so incredibly talented. I'm sure it woudn't take him long to do it. :)

These days

 

The kids have been busy putting on puppet shows, playing with the boys' old medievil castle and pirate ships, illustrating books with beeswax crayons and sketching some really awesome pictures out of this Drawing: Faces & Features book. Our 13 year old son Kolbe has even been teaching himself "Python and C+" computer language so he can write his own iPhone and iPad apps. These kids seem to always be off somewhere doing their own thing, especially when I'm trying to get them together for lessons. I tend to get stressed out about making them finish their assigned work, but I try to remind myself that they're really learning, even if it's not what I would pick out for them during formal school hours. It doesn't help when the UPS truck arrives with goodies for the Art corner. They tend to go through art supplies pretty fast around here, especially water colors and color pencils.