The home school art lessons continued this week with another exploration of shape. As you may have read in the last installment my burgeoning artist daughter and had completed several drawings of our Gerber daisy still life.   We had also procured some salvaged wood from an old family armour and had begun the process of sanding and prepping it for painting.

This week we focused on deconstructing the previous drawings and remaking them into simpler more basic shapes. Removing much of the superfluous lines, unneeded shading elements, etc. Basically an exercise in editing. Hannah took to the task straight away. It's interesting but after all these years I still find it somewhat disconcerting to take an eraser to work that I'm quite happy with. I'm glad to see that she's not struggling with that same hesitation. The fact remains that more often than not my work benefits from the refinement. Whether it's drawing or painting, copy writing or crafting code, the second take is all but guaranteed to be better than the first.

Next week we'll break out the paint and brushes and really start having some fun. At this rate the painting should be ready for place of honor in the new office by the end of the month.