Paintings!

Here are the paintings Mark and the girls made at the Florence Griswold Museum last Sunday. As I mentioned, they were given canvas, brushes, and a palette with 4 globs of paint: yellow, red, blue and white. In the hour they spent by the riverside, they created three very different paintings...

Zoe (3 years old) defied her upbringing by creating this example of modern art. But, hey, we love painted emotion when a 3-year-old does it--for the record, she says it's a tree, but it looks like happiness: 

Lucy (almost six years old) created this impressionistic view of the riverside and reeds on the far bank...oh, and a "two-color rainbow." Just because....it also looks like happiness. :)

And Mark, never one to shun a challenge, accomplished this rough, but more traditional painting of a gorgeous, old tree by the river:

This is the actual tree, from a slightly different angle. I think Mark captured it pretty well in an hour with finger paints. :)