like in the old days ...

Last Monday

daughter started a big commission :

paintings on the windows of all the class rooms

of the school her children attend (ed)

It is the same school where I've worked happily 

all the years we lived in this village

untill I retired in '07

Painting on the windows was something I did

when we needed illustrations

for the themes that we were working along in our group

(age 4  - 6)

After I retired my old collegues

asked (on a regular basis) to help out again with it

and I did that, because it was fun !

This summer the school had a major refurbishment :

ALL the windows (and the roof)

were replaced.

That meant of course that all the window paintings

that were still there, were gone !!!

But this time it's the next generation

that is willing to do the (big) work !

(and I'm allowed to help her)

On Monday we started with the outline 

on four windows, today we started in colour.

(and outside the sheep are keeping the grass short !)

(hmmmm ... I hate that colour they chose for the roof

and you can see that not all the windows are there yet ...

neither is the front door !!!)

While daughter had an early start,

I came a bit later and started in the second class room

(the design is inspired by the illustrations of Dagmar Stam

and the drawings I made myself during all those years at school)

At the end of the morning daughter could almost start on the back ground ...

and the little one 

(not at school yet ... for he's only 3 years and 4 months)

loved to be in the classroom, watch the bigger children ...

and his mum painting.

Late in the afternoon we left for today, not yet finished ...

.....

To be continued !