Saturday was painting at the library day! Naturally my daughter, @SnekLady, and I attended!

I am only going to post pictures of my painting, as I am sure she will want to post her own.

I apologize for the photo quality. I was excited to share and now looking at my pictures, I could have done a much better job...

So the theme this month was "Valentines/Love/Spring" according to the library's facebook page.
As you can see, it is a heart-shaped tree, with 'leaves' blowing away. We got to play around with splatter painting, which is where we put the stencils we made down, and used our brushes to flick paint onto the paper. It was super fun! And messy!

We were using acrylics, and our instructor told us we can actually use them for watercolor painting by diluting them with water! I had no idea this could be done. It was great! The 'blowing leaves' were done by making little puddles of watercolor and blowing them with straws. Also super fun!

I did a little more free-hand splattering after I was done blowing.

And, of course, the roots were done in watercolor over carefully applied splatters.

@SnekLady and I had a wonderful time painting together, and are really looking forward to the next lesson!

We enjoyed the new techniques we learned, and we both want to use them to make more paintings.

I LOVE that we have this opportunity, and if you have the chance to take a painting lesson, I highly recommend it! It makes great mommy/daughter time, (or husband/wife, mommy/son, father/daughter, father/son.... well, you get it), or even painting alone! The teachers help you through the process step-by-step, so even people who 'can't paint', can totally paint.

I also love the fact that even though all the students are painting the 'same' pictures, not a single one is like another! It is so cool to walk around and check out all the different variations of the same picture, and you can get a glimpse into the imagination of another person. ♥

Thanks for looking! Have a wonderful week!