open art studio

It was cold and rainy today, and Liesl and I are both struggling with colds, so we headed indoors to the Portland Child Art Studio for their open studio time. Anne and Mary met us there, so it was an artistic extravaganza. We had a wonderful three hours of painting, drawing with oil pastels, shaping clay into pinchpots and snowmen, and creating glue-bedecked collages. I decided that if I was going to be there, I should dive in wholeheartedly alongside Liesl, and so I too painted and played.  It was splendid. I wish there had been places like this when I was a child, to get so messy and splattered, to be able to collage with so many different objects - maybe I would have enjoyed art more.