August Art

I'm not so good at taking lots of pictures so I'm filling in with ones we've drawn. :)  Earlier this summer we started using an online art class- just the basics of perspective, shading, horizon, etc.  The lessons are all 30 minutes or less (often less than 10).  The teacher is a cartoon artist and just the right mix of spastic creativity and information.  The kids love him.  They picked a few of their favorites to share.

Two lessons meshed into a reluctant alien blob babysitting a space hamster.

The two on the right, Kirdy & Nindra, are commentators who appeared in Lise's sketchbook a week ago.  They now show up to comment on every lesson.

This fuzzy guy at the bottom is the lesson, the rest are additions.  Bug's drawings have entire, elaborate stories by the time he's done.

We're also about half way through 'Journey to the Center of the Earth' and 'The Never Ending Story' (the book is much different than the movie- as usual).  We can't ever seem to read just one book.

Our history timeline is starting to take shape up the stair well; some of the only length of empty wall space we had left.

We've spent more time playing at the beach and avoiding hot places with no water.  We've tried to go snorkeling a couple of times but got rained out.  Or rather lightening-ed out.  We prefer not to be electrocuted.

Lise is practicing for a musical theater production in October.  Long hours sometimes.  She's teaching a very relaxed ice skating class for the homeschool group every couple of weeks.  And still animating away on the computer.

Bug's still hooked on Legos.  Learning how to do some pretty fun stuff with stop motion and building tricks.  Yesterday he made several puzzle chests that had to be opened by figuring out which pieces released the next ones.  Simple, but pretty inventive.  Hopefully we'll have some short flicks to share on our update at the end of the month.