ode to replenishing

rocks in la jolla.

painting at noon.

13/52

"a portrait of my children's artwork, once a week, every week, in 2013."

Don't you just love the saying en plein air? It's that cute French phrase that describes the act of painting outdoors. It's spring break and we're at our house in Mexico with the four little ones. Needless to say, staying outdoors is a necessity. When not off adventuring, we painted rocks, shells, sticks, dyed easter eggs, painted feet, legs, eventually each other, balloons, leaves, and snails. 

s. Aside from the eggs and body art, which occupied much of Sienna's time, she did this small painting called, the dotted.

o. Olivia loves tiny things. If she's missing, look down. You'll likely find her hunched over, digging into small crevices extracting microscopic objects. She spent hours in the garden collecting snails and rollie-pollies. Since the rollie-pollies moved to fast, she decided to paint the snails. Here's her painted snail collection. 

A few more shots from the week below.








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52 project links: I thought this blurry shot of her boys, by Pink Ronnie, was perfectly captured.

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mid-century modern home tour via martha stewart

I love you print by Rachel Castle

heart shaped painting by Damien Hirst via New York Times

I am not a heart sort of person, but I would take all of these pieces in a minute! I'd actually like to recreate the first one. I've held onto that photo for years thinking that one day when my house is bigger, maybe I have a hallway, I'd paint it. You could never be in a bad mood passing by. Can't you just feel the love.