We are trying to get all our summer extracurricular activities done before time runs out and we have to get back to doing math and grammar. This week Matthias was at piping and drumming school in Coeur D’Alene, so Taite and I did some watercoloring. We found an artist who does sort of primitive, quaint watercolors for her blog instead of photos and Taite copied one of her pieces.
I once spent the day with a scrimshaw artist in Massachusetts who taught me how to work on ivory. The first step is to accomplishing detailed work on ivory is to work with pen and ink. One day this summer that is what Matthias tried his hand at. I bought some ivory piano keys that are waiting for a ship to sail on them.
