Lately Mondays have been our day for watercolor painting, for really no particular reason other then that’s the way it worked out.

This set of paintings are some of my favorites from the last couple of months.  They are currently hanging on a wall in my kitchen.

First we painted in blue, then used clean brushes to remove the paint to make the trees and ground, then we sprinkled them with salt while they were still wet.

This week while Galen was painting I told him the story of the yellow sun fairies and the blue rain fairies and how when they come together the bring life to all of the green and growing things.

Once his painting was dry, we cut it into leaves, which he hung on the wall with loops of masking tape, first in the shape of a tree and then in many other shapes, as he seems to like to rearrange them into a different pattern every time he walks past.