Super Heroes

Marcus:This is meant to be Green Lantern, my personal favorite.He has a ring, but you can't see it

Anneke:We made these out of lego pieces so do not expect them to be perfect

Wonder Woman

Aquaman

Superman

Batman

Robin

(I can't remember who this is. Oops.)

The Justice League in Lego

(There has been a lot of quarreling amongst my children lately. They started this post and kept arguing. It sat for over 2 weeks. I am sharing what is here anyway. I hope we have more to share here in a bit.)

Ice cube art

106 degrees + 2 trays of ice = Fun summer art

Marcus drew an I heart u and bear

 The whole crew

 Anneke's cat

 The Ugly Duckling

 We ended up racing our ice cubes down the driveway

Next up - homemade books

Entrepreneurs

On a hot day this week my children opened their first lemonade stand. Dad provided the start up, but they made $5. They had fresh squeezed and pink lemonade. 


Anneke - The lemonade was good.We read books well (while) we waited for customers.


Marcus - We had pink lemonade and fresh squeezed lemonade. Somebody from our old ward (the Hacienda ward) stopped by and bought two cups for one dollar. Fresh lemonade was a whole lot more popular than the pink, so we had pink lemonade for dinner that night. I am not in the picture, but I was there for nine tenths of the time. Some people paid way more than they needed to. One man paid $1.76 or so for one cup of  fifty cent lemonade. We stayed out there for two and a half hours or so.

Faces

Anneke's self portrait made with cut paper

 This is my favorite Marcus art work. So fun!

Cityscapes

We have been talking about landscapes, seascapes and now cityscapes. 

Anneke -

 Marcus - (He does not like paint and asked to do anything but paint. I guess that is not his preferred medium, huh?)

Happy (late) Valentine's Day

Here is Anneke's Valentine to us. I am not sure what the words are and she said, "I don't know" when I asked what they meant.

Happy birthday Grandma! (This posted too early, so check out special Luke art below.)

All about Luke

4 year old Luke has been producing more art lately. It is still not his favorite past time. He does good work, though. Here are a few samples:

Oil pastel

 Shape people

 Luke paper doll (I have tried to get him to let me scan this in for a while. He has been carrying it around with him and it lost a few pieces. Oh well.)

Anneke's best vacation

Anneke wrote about her best summer trip. She got really spoiled and loved her trip to Texas in 2010.

Nature Art

One day the electricity was out so school was not an option. We went on a nature walk and collected things. Then, they made artwork with them. Luke didn't want to do it.

Anneke's lost several leaves:

 Marcus's would not scan well, but it is still neat looking:

Happy Birthday, Aunt Tummy! (Part 2)

We have taken it upon ourselves to extend Aunt Pam's birthday. Anneke painted this for her on Monday but we thought it was lost. "Happy Birthday, Aunt Pammy," said Anneke.

Happy Birthday, Aunt Tummy!

Today is Aunt Tummy's birthday.  Marcus drew this especially for her. (I may add more throughout the day.  The other 2 wanted to make a picture, too. BUT, they may not.)

Water color

Anneke's ocean:

 She was supposed to show motion. She chose wind...

Marcus's city (I love the lights):

Marcus's Paper

For his 10th birthday Marcus can tell you a bit about what he enjoys:

Portraits

Self portrait in oil pastels

 Self portrait in pencil and crayon:

 Portrait of Marcus in crayon and pencil:

Cut paper art

Playground (by Anneke):

 Rose garden (torn paper) by Anneke

dining room (by Marcus)

Anneke's giraffe

Anneke's favorite animal is a giraffe. Our unit on animal art was therefore all about the giraffe.

Realistic:

 About giraffes:

 Abstract:

 Realistic sculpture:

Her abstract sculpture was pretty good, but must have been thrown away. 

Luke's work

From his church class:

 He drew a pretty good 3 year old self portrait, but didn't like it so he scribbled over it. You can still see part of it at the bottom:

 Water color he did when his siblings were working with paints for school:

Marcus

In October we got Marcus an 100 page sketch book. He drew and drew and filled it by the end of November. For Christmas he got another sketch book. He wants to be an illustrator. Here is some of his random pencil drawings.

(The last one is my favorite. It reminds me of how I think of Rumpelstiltskin. I am not sure why some didn't scan all that well.) There is a lot of detail I don't think you are able to see but he is a really good artist.



*We have not been the best at updating the blog. So, for the next couple of weeks check back and see what's new. I am going to try and show about 4 months worth of art.