Girl with a Pearl Earring

Each year, there is a Self Portrait Show at Ainsley's school.  One of the features of the show is a second painting that every student in the class paints.  This year the inspiration was Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring.

Self Portrait

Wildflowers

There are wild flowers all over the city this Spring and Ainsley created this crayon creation to celebrate them.

Van Gogh's Church of Auvers-sur-Oise

Ainsley received a Van Gogh Activity Pack for her 6th birthday. One of the activities was to practice brush strokes on this outline of The Church of Auvers-Sur-Oise.

Mom helped with this one as well.

Blue Bonnet Watercolor

In Texas, there are Blue Bonnets lining the highways in March and April. Ainsley is constantly admiring their beauty and painted a picture at school this week.

Ainsley's African Shield from Art Class

In Ainsley's art class at school, they created African Shield. This was created with oil paints and small cut outs.

Marie Laurencin Inspired Pastel

At school, Ainsley has an amazing art teacher that combines both art history with functional instruction. This weeks' exercise focused on Marie Laurecin.

Easel Art - Flower Family

A quick dry-erase marker drawing of flowers.

Ainsley's Mind Map

One of the projects in Ainsley's art class this week was creating a Mind Map.

Ainsley elected to create her Mind Map in the form of a flower.

Thanksgiving

Text reads: On Thanksgiving I visit my friend Sophia

Holiday Card

On Wednesday, Ainsley created a Holiday Card for her Grandma Dee.

The text read: Dear Grandma, I love you. I hope we have a fun holiday. Love, Ainsley

A Little Girl

This little girl was found on a scrap of paper. Daddy thought it was cute, so it ended up on Ainsley's Art blog.

Two Silly Pumpkins

We're not really sure what prompted a rendition of pumpkins in December, but today Ainsley created this piece she calls Two Silly Pumpkins.

Rising Stars Art

Ainsley is learning to play the violin at school. Her first school concert was called Rising Stars.

Each student created custom artwork for the program. This was Ainsley's creation.

If you're interested, the program consisted of Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star, Hot Cross Buns, and the Can-Can.

The Butterfly

Self Portrait

Thanksgiving Rooster

An Ainsley Reproduction

A few weeks ago, the family was drawing at the kitchen table. Daddy drew some mountains, a road, and a stop sign.

Yesterday, Ainsley came home with her version of the drawing by Daddy.

:-)

Art Class - Pear

Much of the art that you see on Ainsley's blog is created at random times. However, some of the work is from her formal art class in school.

This pear was created in Art Class. It was created with chalk. This is one of our personal favorites.

Power Girl

Ainsley had to create her own Super Hero for an art project at school.

Her super hero was Power Girl. Her super power, giving flowers their color.