The best part about homeschooling in an urban environment is coming across interesting things in your own neighborhood. Last week, on one of our mid-day outings (it was 40 degrees out) we walked by Ylli Haruni, a real artist, doing an oil painting. I didn't want to disturb him too much but asked if we could watch him work for a few minutes. He graciously said that we could, so we stopped and watched him as he worked on Four Corners at Bidwell. We got to see him paint the red awning in the painting.
I had seen some of this work in the window at Brian Art Galleries so we stopped there to get more information on Ylli Haruni. Brian Cheman graciously gave us the correct spelling of the his name so we could look him up online and right there in his store, still a little wet, was the complete painting we saw him working on.
It's experiences like these that make homeschooling in Buffalo, or any urban environment, so interesting.
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