Wee Wednesday Colorful Creations

 This morning we went to the Art Museum Wee Wednesdays.  Today's theme was Colorful Creations and had 4 storytime stops.  We started on the 2nd floor for less crowded stops.  In the above picture Miss Audrey is doing something you aren't supposed to do ... running.

  Here she has stopped to check out her CAM Wee Wednesday sticker book.  For this month she choose a shiny Santa sticker.  She met Santa yesterday at Kenwood (topic for another post).

  First stop was in front of Marc Chegal's Red Rooster.  The docent read a really cute book called Magic Art Class by Harley Black.   The picture below shows Audrey and a little boy helping the docent with the interactive part of this storytime.

  A picture of Red Rooster I copied from google.

  I might just win mother-of-the-year award for this picture.

 Next we went to one of the contemporary galleries and this stop was in front of Helen Franethaler's Rock Pond (another photo copied fro google.)  The docent was really interesting at this stop.  She explained how the artist made the painting (poured paint on canvas and then tilted it) and the case for not dislikinng modern art but instead trying to understand it.  This docent gave the children small translucent squares of blue, red and yellow and showed them how to make the colors of a rainbow. 

Next we went to the storytime on the 1st floor in the Rookwood Gallery.  The docent at this station ready the book below.

This look thru the peephole type of guessing book is the type Audrey is particularly fond of right now.  The docent also took them around the corner to "I Spy" the designs on the Rookwood vases and paperweights.

Our last stop was in front of this painting by Edward Henry Potthast called Playmates.   I learned this artist was born in Cincinnati and best known for his sunny beach paintinngs.  Also that because of his love of children they were in many of his paintings as well.

Tonight John is coming home from a short trip to VA for work.  Hopefully he won't have any delays and will be able to meet Audrey and I at the conservatory for yet more holiday pictures.  However tonight's pictures are free! 

Miss A has such a good memory ... this is an example from this morning conversation as I was getting her out of bed:

Me:  "Put on your hat and grab manket and let's go down to eat breakfast"
A:     "Look for Baba"
Me:   "No he is still not home yet.  But he will be tonight"
A:     "Airport"