Our Visiting Artist

Each year an artist comes to our school. The artist will talk about the kind of work they do. He/she will demonstrate the work. In years past we have had artists who paint with watercolors, oils, acrylic. We have had an artist to do a collage. We have had artists to show how they sculptor things. We have even had a potter.
This year our guest artist paints murals.

Our artist is very special to our class. Her name is Julie and she is Taylor's mom!! Wow! How exciting could that be!! I think an artist is a cool thing for a mom to be.

She spoke to all of the classes at school. She told us that she had been drawing and painting since she was a little girl. She told us that the best way to get good at drawing and painting is to practice.

She show us a book of all kind of murals she has painted. They were neat! She told us that since she paints on walls, she must paint the pictures very big. She said that she has been painting big things for such a long time, that it is sometimes hard to draw and paint small things. I guess that comes from all of that practice!!

The very best part of her visit is that she left a special gift for our school!! She painted a mural in our front hallway! It is beautiful, and VERY BIG! There are two big tress with lots of flowers and some animals. It looks great! Everyone who comes to our school will see it!!!

Take a look at Taylor and her mom in front of the mural.