The Next Georgia O'Keefe

Quinn began art class this week at Cheekwood Botanical Gardens and Art Gallery. She is having such a good time. I mean who wouldn't love an hour of just getting messy with paint and glue? I think her favorite part is wearing the painter's apron. As you can see it is getting good use.
Here she is putting glue on her fish to make sure the scales stick.
I will take some pictures of the best projects and post them at the end of the week. Thus far we have made a sun, a sandbucket (see above), a submarine, and a scaly fish. I can't wait to see what we are going to make tomorrow.

Since it has been a long time since I've ranted about something (what has it been like a week?). I thought I would do so today. So there are about 8 kids in Quinn's 2-year olds art class. Let me say that again - this is an art class designed for 2 year olds. Like every other 2 year old my daughter has an attention span of a 2 year old and the artistic skills of oh yes a 2 year old. So the projects sometimes aren't painted all the way or the fish only gets half of its scales. That's what 2 year olds do. She is no less proud of her work and I am certainly no less proud because it isn't perfect. In fact, I love it because it is hers and hers alone. So both yesterday and today I noticed the majority of the other mothers (probably 60% or so) finishing up their kids art work. The kids were suppose to paint a brown paper bag yellow to make the submarine. When the other kids said that they were done their Moms picked up the brushes and finished them - perfectly- for them. When the kids were done with the scales on the fish, the Moms finished for them. At the end of the day what do they have? They have a pre-schooler art project that the Moms did. What is the point in that? Admittedly, the submarines were pretty cool but if I really wanted to make one myself I could do it at home. I don't get why these mothers would try to fix a two year olds art project which then doesn't make it the child's anymore. So needless to say Quinn's project was one of the sloppiest ones there but to me and to Quinn it was by far the best.