Rainy Day Art Session

Shhh don't tell him, but I was secretly pleased when the first day of the holidays was a rainy one. It meant I could take a break from work and instead we could get down and get creative.

I have recently fallen back in love with watercolours and Ebi-kun saw what I was doing and wanted to try too. We watched some hand lettering videos on YouTube then tried our own hand at it.

Not as easy as it looks. The strange thing here is that Ebi-kun HATES calligraphy at school but he happily sat for a couple of hours doing it in English! Maybe I'm nicer than his teacher!

We did seem to take over the whole living room with our creativity, which I don't mind, there is always a time to get messy! I'll share some of the finished pieces when the paint has dried!

Legend Of The Guardians and The Paint Box...

It was a pretty miserable day the other day so we decided a snuggle on the sofa and a film was in order. Ebi-kun decided he wanted to watch Legend Of The Guardians again, cute film but quite violent!

After the film he got out his paints and was inspired to do some owly paintings...

He started off with the acrylics and painted a barn owl...

Then he got the water colours out and painted Hedwig from Harry Potter (we are currently on book 4!). Whilst he was painting he was talking a lot about the difference in the paints and how they react differently. It's interesting listening to him make these observations.

And whilst he was chattering away, I was painting my own owl, in between making dinner and downloading and uploading files for the Montessori Crash Course! Bit of a freaky looking owl really..