Grandparent's Farm

6 cousins all collaborated on this painting for a very special gift for their grandparents!   Using pictures of the farm and house, we worked on painting their farm and had everyone involved in this masterpiece!

We met with the 3 families at Tribeca for paint session 1.   We started off with 7 year old "B" for the road.  His cousins were already into it!  I love the crowd of admirers!

  Focused painter!

We put down some grays and browns and then worked on blending.  Then the road was complete!

Next up was kindergartner "B" working on the sky.  He is a master of skies as he has painted with me before!  After his blue beauty was in, youngest cousin came to put in some clouds!

She got to stamp with a sponge!  You can see me gesturing ideas of where to go.

So cute!  I love her smile!

Wonderful work!  "B" did some final touches and then cousin number 4 was up!

Kindergartner "E" put in the trees on the horizon line.

Looking beautiful!  Great job!

And our final painter for the day was 1st grader "B" to do the fields in front of the house.

She did some q-tip painting too, to add in some accents to those fields.

And the landscape was in!

My final painter was the oldest, wisest cousin, 6th grader "L".  He did the detail work of the blue tractor and the home.   Here he is using the picture of the house to help him out with details, as well as my pencil sketch.

He also added in a corn stalk to the fore ground.

Last, but certainly not least was the tractor.  I had an image ready for him to reference as he painted in the important details.   No rest for the weary 6th grader on a Friday afternoon, right "L"!?

You can see that I had painted in white to sketch in some guides for him as well.   It made it easier for him to see.

 Finally, "L" finished up some last minute details of the house (including the tree in the front of it).

And we called it done!   The masterpiece collaboration of 6 artists was ready to be gifted!   I'm sure they will love it!  Great work cousins!