"What My Great Grandmother Saw." Her oil painting of the old family homestead, and my go at doing it

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12. The contrast of two artists doing the same scene is delightful

And your flowers are so colorful and yet so delicate. You did a great job using the ink to do very fine and sketchy outlines of the flowers and the basket. It looks like you used a very fine pointed pen and drew one squiggly continuous line with the stems and flowers. The work is exquisite and the way you filled in with colors and washes in a easy and loose way shows you have an ease with doing quick fine line sketches with color added.

Your painting of the homestead belongs in a book about a homestead. You can fill the pages with your sketches of the objects inside with little stories about them. You could take your young readers on a painted tour of the countryside around the property. You can spin a tale of life there by showing the objects, without having to paint a single human being. You know, like you did in your recent painting of the beach with the big umbrella and the toy bucket and scoop.