We're back with another drawing with kids post! It's been a while and I apologize. We've actually done all three drawing exercises from lesson 2 (drawing from graphics) over the past month and this lion drawing is the first of them.
For those who are joining in for the first time, my 7 year old and I are following the drawing lessons outlined in Mona Brookes' popular book, Drawing with Children.
My mom flew back from Florida with me. The girls were SO excited to see her. Since she lives in Oregon, visits are infrequent and highly anticipated.
She brought some seashells for the girls as a little gift from Florida. We found them nestled between sand and rock on the beach between Sanibel and Captiva islands. Nothing special shells that were gathered quickly in between waves.
I'm experimenting here... I'm in Florida visiting my grandmother and mother and thought I'd see if I can post to the blog from my e-mail. I've read that it's possible, so here goes...
This photo was taken of a lunchtime doodle at Trader's, a restaurant on Sanibel. Between our many games of Bali, Royalty, Scrabble, Bananagrams, Wordy, and Famous Man, we've been going out for lunch to my Grandma's favorite places. And most, surprisingly enough (since the crowd here is over 70 rather than under 10), have paper and crayons ready to use the second you sit down. I love it. And think we need to do this more at the restaurants at home.
Yesterday was an exciting day around here! As the official release day for my book, it was full of all kinds of fun. Lots of great Amazon reviews to read (Thank you, thank you!), an after school trip to our fave local bookstore, flowers, notes of congrats...
The highlight was taking the girls to Malaprops Bookstore in search of "our book." We had to ask for help finding it—it wasn't on the shelves with the parenting books but rather up in the front window.*
Today is an exciting day! Not only is it the
official release date for my book (Woohoo!!) but also 20 Moms, which I’m
honored to be a member of, is hosting our very first blog loop. I am delighted to
have Deborah of Teach Preschool contributing today. You probably know her as the early childhood education expert who shares her ideas so generously with teachers and parents around the world.
While Deborah is
here, I’m over at Anna’s blog, The Imagination Tree, sharing a fun quilt stained glass art activity that we did recently. (While there, see where Anna is
posting today...and keep following the loop until you make it back here!)
Building and Creating with Curves by Deborah J. Stewart of Teach Preschool
It is such a pleasure to join you all here on the Artful Parent and I must also add, it has been quite a challenge to find something even remotely comparable to the beautiful posts Jean shares with you on a regular basis. I wanted to share something that would compliment Jean's approach to early learning and artful experiences and so after much thought, I decided to share our exploration of building and creating with curves...
Here's a video of Daphne painting and singing at the easel, taken this morning. It was such a happy painting experience, I had to try to capture it on video! (Pretty sure this is the first video I've shared here...)
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Just a few more days until The Artful Parent book release!! Tuesday, April 9th is the big day! That means that there are just a few more days to pre-order The Artful Parent book and get a FREE copy of The Artful Spring eBook. If you've already pre-ordered, thank you, thank you! And if you were hoping for a friendly last-minute reminder, here it is... :)
Also, have you been following along on The Artful Parent Blog Tour? There are so many wonderful posts about the book on some of my favorite blogs!
Daphne has started drawing her first faces and people! I find this developmental stage SO exciting!! Of course, she's still doing lots of scribbling and abstract art as well, which is completely normal. And I have to say I LOVE those, too. But seeing a few of those first faces and realism drawings peep out here and there is just so much fun.
