Saturday's Cookies and Canvas Painters

How about all the creativity going on here. These young painters chose their own colors and bedazzling for the hermit crab shell.

This is Ella with her painting. She named this little guy "Hurry, like hurry up let's go swimming".

Today is the first day of June!

Have a wonderful weekend.

-JanettMarie

"Spots" by Young Artists!

Logan, Reese and Ally! Cousins painting!

Today was a fun day of painting with young artists at the Cookies & Canvas Studio!

In the above photo you see three cousins that had a great time painting a Dalmatian puppy. Ally, the artist on the right side of this photo is the inspiration behind this painting! She asked in April if I did any Dalmatian paintings, I hadn't, but I told her that I would put one together for her!
So "Thank You, Ally!", we all had a great time painting "Spots" today! Great idea!

All happy artists! Beautiful work!

A good time had by all, and we all gave our puppy a ball to play with!

This is Kyle, he painted the Jolly Roger with me last month. Kyle knows really good jokes!

Thanks Painters!!!

-jM

"Spring Has Sprung!"

14"x11" acrylic on canvas

Here is my painting from Cookies & Canvas last Saturday. I had a great group of artists and all of the paintings turned out absolutely perfect!

This is Anita and Carol, they love to do "artsy" activities together. Saturday was another perfect time together for them.

And here are a few more young painters from Saturday. See the rainbows? The artists used their artistic licenses wisely.

-jM

PS: These little painters keep my "spirits" high...   : )

It's May in Indianapolis!

Ayri and Mallory with their Indy Car paintings!

Above is a photo of two of my Cookies & Canvas painters from this morning. We painted an Indy race car that signifies the beginning of Race Month here in Indiana!

Ayri on the left is named after the famous F1 race care driver Ayrton Senna! How cool is it that she painted in my class today!! Too Cool! Thanks Ayri : )

May is a busy month for Indianapolis with the Indy 500 Race at the end of the month. This morning kicked off with the Mini Marathon, a 13.1 mile run that is a tradition in Indianapolis since.... forever.... just kidding. I know when I ran it in 1995, it sold out in January! This morning was so hot they put out a yellow flag for the remaining participants to slow down for health safety due to the high humidity and heat, wow.

Oops, I forgot to post this Saturday and now it's Sunday, well, I hope you all understand... it was the heat!

More tomorrow!

-jM

"Frog on the Beach!"

14"x11" acrylic on canvas

A painting for Cookies&Canvas, the kids version of Wine&Canvas!

This is a very unique frog that he is sitting on a beach! I wonder if he's from Texas and he's looking for Myra. Someone told him she was painting at the beach, lying down! He wants to see this in person!

Knee is getting better, I've been standing and painting a lot today!

-jM

"Crazy Monster"

Cookies and Canvas, one of my favorite activities to do.  I love helping young artists learn what they can do with a paint brush on canvas. We did this "Crazy Monster" on Saturday, May 14th at the Wine and Canvas studio in Indianapolis.

Dom and his Mother Sarah.

 Above is Dom and his mother Sarah, with Dom's painting of the "Crazy Monster". Dom wasn't sure he liked his painting, but everyone I've shown it to loves it! I hope he likes it by now and will paint again and again. Little artists just like big artists, we are our own worst critic.  Did I mention that Dom is 5 years old?

"Crazy Monster" by the young artists at Cookies & Canvas.

Here is the whole group from the day. All the monsters are pretty scary! Or does this monster just think he's scary!

I'm not sure who has more fun.... the kids or me!

-jM

"Green Cup" -Sold

3"x2" itty bitty acrylic on canvas

An itty bitty "Green Cup" with real coffee on the surface of the canvas in the cup!

Saturday was painting a "Bug" for Cookies and Canvas. I always have a great time with the kids and I have to believe that the parents and grandparents have a great time too!
Here is happy painter Faith with her painting and mom Merilee!

Merilee and Faith at Cookies and Canvas

She's drying that bug so it's okay to take home without getting paint on the car!

-jM

My Little Painters!

I mentioned the other day about "Cookies and Canvas"..... Well, here is the photo of the kids (cookies) with their paintings! Great Little Artists!

-jM