Watercolor Painting With My Daughter On Vacation
Our family recently traveled up to the Lake Tulloch area of California for a mini vacation. I was eager to escape the traffic and congestion of Los Angeles in exchange for blue skies and beautiful landscapes. I was very pleased with my choice of location to...
Art in Schools Inspires Tomorrow’s Creative Thinkers | Edutopia
When I created this website, I wrote this slogan for myself - "What our children create today shapes our future for tomorrow". This article I ran across today describes exactly that. It's so important that our children create: drawing & painting, writing,...
Free Museum Days in LA for Kids
My daughter and I talk about drawing and painting everyday. Today she had fun drawing by turning a simple piece of paper into a "phone". She drew the buttons, added some lines for numbers to call and then made one for all of us so we could "talk". I love how she...
Anyone Can Be An Artist: We’re Born To Create
Drawing and Painting are the most basic means of creative expression for any human being and nurturing that desire in our children is imperative. I truly feel that as a Mom, I am my daughter’s first teacher, not only in Art, but in everything. It is my obligation...
Father’s Day
So to celebrate Father's Day instead of buying the usual cards and gifts, I asked my 5 year-old daughter if she wanted to create paintings for her Dad and her Grandfathers. She was more than delighted. I needed to stock up on paint, so a quick trip to...