Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Painting Africa!

"Roadside Scene" by Graham (11) Graham's painting shows a field of papyrus and up on the road you see the bus they rode in while in Uganda and a red house and some of the roadside "stores" that sell everything down to one even having a unicycle...if you look closely at the store closest to the red house you might spot the unicycle. Graham said that this was the day that there was a brown cloud in the sky.
"Lady Carrying a Basket of Bananas on Her Head" by Abigail (10)
"Africa Potpourri" by Joy (8) Joy painted a banana tree at the top left of her picture, bottom left she painted a little girl named Joy who she met in Uganda. Next to Joy's new friend,Joy, is a chimp named Joy that our Joy saw in Uganda. Lots of Joys in Africa! Then Joy painted the table where she bought her African flute (that table also has a Fanta on it...Fanta was one of the drinks that was often served to them...Joy said that there wasn't really Fanta on the table, but she wanted to paint some there!) and then at the bottom of the picture is, but, of course, a Nile crocodile!
"Another Elephant" by Esther-Noel (6) Esther is still into elephants. Though, they didn't get to see an elephant while they were in Africa, they did get to see elephant bones. She added two crosses in this picture--a reflection of their ministry in Africa.
"Our Bus" by Elijah (4) Elijah started off just mixing colors with the paint when he got his turn to paint this afternoon. I told him that Graham, Abigail, Joy, and Esther had painted something that they had seen while they were in Uganda. After he had been mixing colors for a while on one sheet of paper, he said, "I think that I will paint something that I saw in Africa." So he painted the bus that George drove them around in while in Uganda. Elijah's one discovery with this painting is that he could make a circle by swirling the brush around. He really liked the wheels on his bus! As you can see it was art class day at Grammy's school. Along with art class for Graham, Abigail, Joy, and Esther, Joy and Esther read to me, Abigail had her sewing time and then after lunch Isaac had his short school time and then Elijah painted. Woody walked this morning while Abigail had sewing. And, now he has walked to the church for his time in the prayer room. I made Mediterranean Tuna Salad for our supper. That sums up our day...now to go undo the "art studio" and get it back to being just a regular school room!

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