awesome art classes

The girls have been able to take a couple of classes offered by Becky at Portland Art Adventures. She's a super facilitator for creativity. Her classes have a basic structure, but she really understands unschooling and letting the kids take the projects where they think they should go -- there's no "This is what your finished product should look like" just lots and lots of amazing materials (she said most of them are from yard sales/S.C.R.A.P. and the like) and help/guidance when asked for.

These are the mini worlds the girls made back in December.

Mosaic class

Here's my mosaic -- still needs to be grouted. It's supposed to be a sunrise (or a sunset?). It's about 5" x 5". Can't wait do do more mosaic, very fun! The class was taught by the woman who made the green and polkadot bag you can see in the Radio Flyer holding our Thanksgiving dinner. I got the bag at SCRAP (one awesome place!), and had it with me at the class. Portland's kind of a small town in some ways.