My Little Artists

It all started with a comment from Kasey's teacher.  Ms Angie told us how Great Kasey is at art projects.  We have known he is good, but can never seem to get him to finish a picture.  Here is his finished product.  Kasey told me this one was "Perfect".  I completely agree!

He is so meticulous that it takes a very long time to do a very small part of the picture.  Here is a dinosaur Kasey is working on.  I must tell you that this is night number three.  The first night was his eye, the 2nd was a couple of toenails and teeth and he finished the teeth on this particular night.

Recently, the art project was painting an Apple Tree. Ms Angie first pulled out a blank paper and painted an apple tree for the class. Then, she put hers out of sight and told each kid to paint the trunk of the tree. Then, the leaves, the apples and the sun. What do you think? Do we have a future Picasso on our hands?  All I can say is that his birth mother, Mallory, has passed an Amazing Trait onto Kasey that we will all enjoy the rest of his life.  I just love how happy it makes Kasey to work on art projects.  Ms Angie said if Kasey is having a rough day, she asks him to color for ten minutes and after that; he returns to being our normal, happy Kasey.

As we have stated; we can't seem to get him to finish any of his pictures.  We normally get a few very detailed areas colored, but no more.  We have had this discussion with his teacher and she has noticed it too.  She also noticed how hard he presses when he uses his crayons/pencils/etc.  He is now working on coloring with 'two fingers' and can be heard instructing his brother to do the same thing.  Yesterday was a FIRST!  Kasey came home from school with his Very First Fully Colored Picture! We are so proud of him!  The teacher's comments are the ones above the tree.  (As you can see; he is learning about Apples this month).

Karsten Really enjoys his art classes too!  Here is a photo of him coloring one night as well as one of his recent masterpieces.  Karsten not only painted it, but also placed his eyes on him and drew his mouth, nose and ears.  Great work!.  Nothing better than two smiling boys quietly enjoying expressing themselves through their art!  Who knows - Maybe they will own their own gallery together one day!