Dad: So, Alex, this is your first piece of artwork from Grade 1. Tell me about it?
Alex: Uh, Dad, this wasn’t my first piece of art made.
Dad: Yes, but it’s the first one you picked to put on the website.
Alex: Oh.
Dad: So, tell me about it.
Alex: Hmm. We were making flowers and we got to make our own flower.
Dad: Ok, what type of flower did you do?
Alex: I don’t know.
Dad: How did you pick the colors?
Alex: We got to pick the colors by chalk. My colors were yellow, green, and blue. We put those colours on the leaves.
Dad: How did you do the background?
Alex: I used a black Sharpie.
Dad: Very nice. I like it.
Alex: I picked the middle color to be blue.
Dad: Why?
Alex: It’s my favorite color.




Dad – This is a very nice painting, it looks like a Picasso. Were you studying Picasso in art class?
First we got a big piece of paper and we did the background with the dotters. Then we made a big fish container and we outlined with a Sharpie. Then we drew the fish and outlined them with a Sharpie. Then we painted the water blue. Then we drew stems and cut out leaves from green paper and we put them around our fish container.

Our class made owl’s in Art class. I made a good one. I cut out the eyes from yellow paper and drew black circles in the middle. My owl’s wings were long. I drew a rocket ship in the picture and I also drew the moon and lots of stars. I colored it with oil pastels. We made the wings curvy rectangular lines. We made the body in the shape of a square. We made the beak one triangle facing up and one facing down. I made two leaves.
Guest blogger Alex on his Self Portrait in Winter:

