Festival

I guess I'd better catch up on blog entries! The first weekend in June, Grand Rapids holds its annual Festival of the Arts. It's been a highlight for us every year. One of our favorite things to do is have Anna do a little painting. She loves doing it and her paintings have been a lot of fun to have around. It's been very interesting to see her painting skill progression.
Anna's painting at age 2: This was the first painting she ever did! Unfortunately, very shortly after she did this we headed off to take in some of the festival shows and than got caught in a huge thunderstorm. This painting was ruined. I was really crushed! Good thing we go to festival 2 days and Anna got a chance to paint again.
This isn't a great picture of her artwork, but here's what she did at age 3:
At age 4, we found it interesting that her painting style had changed only slightly. She mostly just used A LOT more paint! It was so fun to watch. She tried the two-handed approach and by the end of her painting session, she had ditched the brushes and was using her hands--actually, she was mostly just painting her hands! She had paint all the way up to her elbows! She was very proud of her work, though, and we are very proud of her!

We were very glad that the weather was nice for the weekend. We had a great time and are excited to have another piece of original artwork to add to our collection.