I am excited to announce that we will be offering art lessons starting this September!
For several years now, we have been asked why we aren't teaching. The answer was very simple, there was already an incredible art instructor in the valley.
Alicia Garver doing an art demonstration at the A.V. Fair.
I was fifteen and working on my first watercolor when this picture was taken.
I first began taking art lessons from Mrs. Garver at the age of twelve and continued on through my senior year of High School. Over the next few years, Caleb, Melissa, and Hannah also began taking lessons, and also fell in love with art. Although I never dreamed I could actually be an artist, I thoroughly enjoyed the opportunity to learn.
At the age of fifteen, after winning numerous awards at the A.V. Fair as well as several A.V. Press art contests, I was shocked to find myself the over all winner of the Congressional Art Contest.
Alicia Garver, Congressman Kevin McCarthy, and me with my winning piece, Friends in Denim.
As my confidence grew, I began teaching my younger siblings the lessons my teacher had taught me.
Soon, we became known as a family of artists.
We have had our art on display in the U.S. Capitol, the State Capitol, and numerous private collections in multiple countries. And a year ago, we had our first solo art exhibit!
Caleb won the Congressional Art Contest the year after I did. His piece is titled Weathered But Not Beaten.
Melissa took second place with her watercolor painting Desert Beauty in the Lakes and Valleys Art Guild juried art show!
Christiana won the Congressional Art Contest with her colored pencil drawing Lost in Thought.
Hannah's colored pencil drawing A Quiet Moment Took first, best of division, and best of show at the A.V. Fair. Later, it would also take second place in the Generations juried art show.
We still had no immediate plans to teach though. But then, last year, Alicia Garver approached us with the possibility of taking over her Tehachapi classes at the beginning of this school year. And so, after giving it much thought, we now find ourselves offering classes at Slice of Life Enrichment School in Tehachapi, and at our house in Rosamond! If interested, please contact us through our website by clicking here, message us on Facebook, or email us at ourpeculiarfamily@hotmail.com, and we will be more than happy to get you information about the classes.
~Elisabeth~
