Marvelous Pigs in Satin

Second day selfies.
By coincidence, we did First Day Field Trip and Second Day Selfies. Anyyone have any brilliant Ideas for me for Third Day? #alliterationisthebest #homeschoolisthebest

Finally finishing our snow globe project. It got forgotten while I worried about lesser things like spelling and science 🧬😬I can’t even handle how awesome this project is turning out to be. #homeschoolrocks #artclass #watercolor

inspired by @cassie_stephenz

I do not know how she gets so many projects done with so many kids. I guess that bell forces them to finish.

The next day…

Lacking glitter for the snow, I was going to use sugar. The girls voted to use salt. So that’s what we did. Something odd happened. The salt pulled water out of our paintings. Perhaps the water came from the Elmer’s glue?

My friend who is a NASA scientist suggested:

It could be deliquescence–the salt pulling sufficient moisture from the air to create a brine solution. (One of my friends is studying the process on Mars.) https://www.britannica.com/science/deliquescence

So we got to learn about that, too.

It says “Mom, Mom, Mom [something something] the end.”

That’s pretty much what she says to me every day. #childrensart #lovenotes

The big kids also had art today. A lesson in foreshortening

These Charley Harper inspired fawns are the cutest ever. Thank you @cassie_stephenz and @artwithmrs.e I’m so obsessed with the new hashtag I found

#artteachersofinstagram

We talked about folk art a little bit, and looked at some Grandma Moses paintings.

I need to get better at the lesson part, but I think the girls are awesome at the painting part.

2 Grandma Moses inspired paintings and 2 Folk art dream towns

Me: I like all the different shades of green you made.

Peach Pie: I know it’s green, but what else is about it?

Me: did you paint it like that just so you could say that?

Peach Pie: maybe yes.

First experiment with oil pastels.

These took 3 one-hour sessions to complete

😅

A quick chalk pastels lesson.