Our Ar-tee-st at work...

The kids' Options school has a building contest each year, and our kids decided to participate using paint and clay.  Fletcher's clay project was titled "Nostalgia" and was a Native American scene including a brave with a quiver of arrows, a tepee, fire with meat roasting on a rotisserie, and a large buffalo with an arrow in his side and a smaller one running away.  He did an excellent job, was quite proud of his creation, and won a prize for his grade level.  Sarah decided to "build" a New York building using two canvases and paint.  Her building spans both canvases and took her most of a day to complete.  She painted from breakfast to lunch with no interruptions and was exhausted and starving by the time she finished five hours later!

Sarah's finished "Building" project.

Our favorite part of this piece was the sky.  She would blurt out as she worked, "I love my sky!  Mom, don't look!  It's a surprise!"

She loved using her easel.

I thought her people crossing the street turned out really well.  I was so proud of her tackling such a challenging project and working totally from her own head (no picture to look at while she painted).