The Good Father5"x7"

5"x7" oil   Everyone needs a best friend they can confide in.  There are lots of choices at Grandcamp.  This little guy is taking his monkey baby to the hardware store (his favorite shop) in his baby sling.

Playing Dress-Up

5"x7 oil

Who doesn't like to play dress-up?  Our fashion industry is based on the belief that we all like to dress up in the latest fashions and go out and show ourselves off.  Really I think designers sometimes just sit in a room with a bunch of kids who try on all kinds of crazy things and the designers quickly sketch out their choices and call it haute couture!  (or maybe they would be well advised to do this!)  This is another possible page for my kids book.

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Hello Rooster

5"x7" acrylic

Another favorite "Grandcamp" activity is visiting local farms to pick berries, pumpkins, apples, veggies, go to corn mazes and check out the animals.

A Walk In the Park

5"x7" acrylic

This is another illustration for my little book.  All of our grandkids love to go for walks in the woods and in parks.  It is probably my favorite thing to do with them because it is so easy and they love it so much. 

Hula Happy

5"x7" acrylic

I decided to write and illustrate a book for my grandchildren.  Right now I am working on the illustrations and when I get those all done I will attempt to do the text the way I want.  If I fail at that I will just simplify it and call it good.  The theme of the book is, "What Can You Do When You Go To Grandcamp?"  That is only a theme and a working title, not the finished idea.  When the kids come to visit we call it Grandcamp.  So, if it is at the beach we do beach things, like hula-hoop!  I am doing these with an outline and then painting in sections as if I was doing a coloring, kind of like school kids tend to do.  My grandkids are being raised to color outside of the lines...so we will see what will happen with that!  Anyway, this is a fun diversion and it is always great to work on projects for the kids.  This week I am taking a workshop with Dreama Tolle Perry, so I am mostly concentrating on that.