My little artists...

The girls have been taking an Art class from Ms. Barbara McBride for a while now. Lydia has been going over a year and Layton started last August. Once a month, they go on a Saturday morning for 3 hours. They paint a canvas picture and some other small art project while there. They love going and I LOVE seeing what they paint.

 Lydia is so creative and through this class, we have seen that she is a very talented artist.  She often comes up with what she wants to paint on her own. She gives a lot of her paintings away, to relatives and recently she donated one to church. Although I would love to keep them all, I am proud of her giving spirit.

Lydia and Bro. Steve Carpenter, she donated her picture to Gateway Baptist Church, February 2014.

 

Layton does really well for her age. Ms. Barbara compliments her on her placing things on the canvases by herself. Normally she has to trace her picture on the canvas, then paints it. She does very good staying inside the lines.  

 This has been my favorite of Layton's paintings, probably because she is so crazy over Mimi's chickens. It's a joke in our family that we call her the chicken whisperer. She will run and try to catch them and just when you think she can't, she appears with one in her arms. They are so fast but she is faster!

Recently, they had an art exhibit at DSCC, in Covington, that displayed all of Ms. Barbara’s students’ art. The exhibit was really neat and the girls liked showing their art off!