Beeb - The Artist

A friend of ours has started offering art classes for kindergarten aged kids and when I heard about it I quickly signed Beeb up. Today was her first class (because we missed the earlier class this week) where she learned about and practiced drawing different kinds of lines; horizontal, vertical, diagonal, curved, zig-zag, solid, broken, rough, smooth and a contour line with horizon line (who knew there were so many different lines outside of a cheap bar?).

When I picked her up Miss Kori (the teacher) gushed about Beeb's concentration and methodical style. Then she showed me Beeb's squash still-life master piece:

(I added the white canvas and wording)

The challenge was to do this drawing using one continuous line! As I stared at the image MY five year old daughter created I got all choked up and started to cry - it is such a beautiful picture!

As we drove away I couldn't help but think of all the artistic talent Beeb has to inherit from her two great-grandmothers (both artists), my mother and well from me too (though only a little from me). I am so overcome with emotion to see a little bit of my Grandma and Mother in my daughter. That's the best kind of genealogy there is!