A Sidewalk Art Class

On the way to the conference, we passed an art class on the sidewalk in a square. The theme for the day was fall landscapes. The students had palettes filled with brilliant shades of red and yellow.

A huge banner proclaimed this to be the opening day for a sidewalk exposition of student art. The students had easels and chairs and were very busy creating masterpieces.

It turns out that the reason they are out on the sidewalk is that the conference we are going to is housed in their school and they have been banished for the day. We tried to explain to the lead teacher that we would like to see more of their art but she never really understood what we were saying. There were some clearly talented artists in the group.

Later, I thought of these students when going through my photos for the day. I wonder which one of them could have painted this Monet-inspired picture that I captured from the taxi window.