Finn liked the cacti that he saw in Arizona this past weekend. Here's a page from his art book with two saguaros, some desert vegetation, and the Arizona sun high in an ultramarine blue sky.
The ochre yellow critter above the cows is a scorpion. We did see a live scorpion, but it was safely behind glass at the Desert Museum.
The cows and the little hedgehog are rubber stamps from Grandma's collection. They have little to do with the desert but lots to do with the weekend since they were in the stamp box and available. Finn paints the rubber stamps with watercolor and then he does the stamping. That's how he gets a two color hedgehog. Finn taught me his technique last fall when we were stamping autumn leaves.
Both Max and Finn used water brushes and watercolor paints along with stamping supplies to create art while they were here in Arizona. The kitchen counter was filled with stamps, stamp pads, paints, markers, new Smash books and other art supplies so that when the boys arrived they could start their art work.
Doing art is a neat way to document all of the new things that you see when you first come to the desert.
Copyright 2013
Wanda Hayes Eichler
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