Jake's an Artist!!!

We love to involve our boys in charity work and doing things for a good cause... an opportunity came up for us to donate time and art for CHOA~Sibley Heart Center... so of course we took that opportunity!!!  There will be an art festival in September where artwork will displayed for auction.... all painted by children who have experienced heart issues and have been patients at CHOA!  It's going to be precious, and I know I'll be the one trying to win the bidding war on Jake's art (there WILL be a war because it's AWESOME - hahaha!!! :-)

Anyway... Ms. Kim has been to our house a couple of times now to help 'guide' Jake in his masterpieces... she is an artist, and she is so good with Jake.... I plan to have her back out to the house this summer to do an art project with both boys again!!!!!!

Here is Jake working on his first masterpiece...

She had him use a 'knife' to paint with... which he thought was so cool...

And you can tell he's pretty proud!

Day 2 entailed some use of clay...

And every masterpiece needs a signature...

He got a little messier the second time around...

I won't have pictures of his finished work until September... we still have to paint the clay (which will be added to look like 'flowers' on his sky/grass abstract pieces)! Kim was trying to get him to name his pieces (which are nature-type abstracts), and one was a dragon and the second was a crocodile.... we shall be working on the names!!!! ;-) We had so much fun, though... we can't wait for Ms. Kim to come back again!!!!