Art class at the beach house

 

Grandma and Grandad gave Alora a rather complete set of pencils, pens and paints for Christmas and one day, after an early morning trip to the sandbank, both Eli and Alora were keen to try their hand at creating a few masterpieces.













Eli really enjoyed creating images using the watercolours (Grandma was amazed, she didn't think he'd be interested at all!). He started by just painting colourful swirls, but soon wanted to paint a range of creatures. Grandma and I helped with sketching out the image and then Eli went to work. Here is putting the finishing touches on a particularly colourful beetle (left) and declaring his blue-spotted stingray complete (right).

Eli was so in to the watercolouring painting that he did one (or more) most days - even after Alora had gone home. Thankfully Grandma had her own supplies of paints and watercolour paper for Eli to use.










By the end of our stay at the beach house, we had unearthed a new talent and Eli had compiled an impressive portfolio which included a few abstract pieces, plus paintings of an octopus, a beetle, a stingray, a rainbow lorikeet, a shark, a coral, a koala, a crocodile and someone catching a wave! Here he is posing with his paintings - I have no idea why he posed quite this way, but I do like how he makes our floor look like a wall...