Day: July 19, 2007

Just for posterity.

Dayanita by Dad

Christian did such a great job on his Grandpa Lauro drawing yesterday, that I thought I would go ahead and put mine up today.  Kelly promised she would finish hers by tonight so that we can post it tomorrow.  I have mentioned this before, but these drawings are an outgrowth of our homeschool drawing program.  Each summer, in the evening after I get home from work, Christian, Kelly, and I all sit around the dining room table with some classical music turned on loud enough to listen, but still talk.  We work our way through a drawing course described in a book.  The first two years, we used Mark Kistler’s Draw Squad.  We loved that course, learned a lot, and would recommend it to anyone.  Especially those with children between the ages of five and 90.  This year we have moved on to a book that is teaching us how to do pencil drawn portraits.  We have been a little lax this summer because of the move, but we are moving forward and getting better.  Aunt Julia has identified our next book.  She is taking a drawing course right now and I am not sure which book she is using, but she described a book for us that is supposed to be a classic work that teaches people how to draw.  We are looking forward to it, but we want to finish this book this year and next before we get to that.