Sharing Some Enjoy & Some Art

This week would have been my Aunt Kay’s birthday so it was kind of hard for me since she passed away last year (she lived with me growing up and was sort of like my second mom). She was such a glad and colorful person, and she enjoyed to paint and draw, in fact it was her minor in college. So I chose to do a little watercolor painting with Clara in her honor.

I know every mother likely thinks this, but my kid is an artist. Somebody get this girl a beret.

The watercolor set came from Target (it was a total impulse buy when I saw it on an end cap – I simply enjoyed all of the glad and bright colors). Here is one of the plain boxy paintings that I did, mostly while marveling at Clara’s creations.

Here is my absolute go-to painting that Clara did. Are not the colors vivid? I am her biggest fan.

She also did this one on a smaller piece of watercolor paper that I gave her. She painted it sideways, but when we stood it up we thought it looked like a pink sunset reflecting on the water. See it?

This little Clara creation made me smile when I noticed that the small dot of red looked like a heart. I know it is likely simply a glad accident, but I like to think that she was feeling the enjoy while we painted and I told her stories about her Strong Aunt Kay.

Here is a close up of the boxy little painting I made, which was inspired by this shirt that I saw on Instagram. I simply made a few messy boxes in any colors that caught my eye and then cropped it like this.

I thought it might be lively to hang two of those together, so this could be a second print to hang next to it.

I cannot decide if I’d like them better vertically though. We will have to see which way they end up if I ever get them onto the walls around here.

And here is my last one, which is sort of like Clara’s first painting, except not as cool. Here is the headline: Three year old trumps mom in paint-off. Mom could not be more thrilled.

I made all of the paintings above available for download. So if you click any of the images, it’ll open a larger version of them (they are all 8 x 10″ printables) that you can download by right clicking or dragging them off your screen onto your desktop (depending on your computer). I know it is not much, but during a tough week, they made me smile, so I hoped to share them. I also want to start an annual tradition of donating to the MS Society in my Aunt Kay’s memory, so feel free to click that link if you’d like to join me.