A Budding Artist

At the Pear Fair this year a local artist had a tent set up for art lessons or just painting.  Josie loves to paint so she wanted to participate.  The artist (Martha) asked her what she wanted to paint and Josie said a pear.  Martha offered to draw an outline for her to follow but Josie said, "No, I can do it myself."  The day before she and I had painted some pears and we had talked about mixing colors and the shape of pears so she was ready to try it out.  I think for the $5.00 it cost we got a pretty great paining.  It is now framed and on the mantle.