recent artwork

A few recent works by our resident artists for your enjoyment. The first four are J's, using his favorite medium, the Magnadoodle. But Zoo Boy got into the Lego sculpture act too below.

This first drawing is of a Where's Waldo book cover. (That's Waldo circled in the lower right-hand portion of the cover.)

J's depiction of our Fruity Flock of Four in their cage. Those are the birds sitting on their new nail-trimmer perch in the right-hand middle portion of the cage.






A conversation in hieroglyphics of some sort. I honestly have no idea what it says, but The Map Man has told me that it has to do with fire safety and comes from a Smokey the Bear workbook the kids picked up at a State Parks event this summer.

A portrait of J's hero, Tom Brady, quarterback for the New England Patriots. (He pointed out that he's wearing his baseball cap here, which means that his helmet is off, the game is over, and the Patriots won, which probably explains the smile on Tom's face!) Have I mentioned that we're all avid (very VERY avid!) fans of football in general and the Patriots in particular? GO PATS!!!!

The kids show off their original Lego creations. Zoo Boy created a "rocket restaurant" that flies around taking orders in space. J created a "special helicopter" that is sort of combination between a helicopter and a truck. (He's blowing on the rotors to make them spin in this photo.) These creations are noteworthy because, unless he's getting this design from a source we are unfamiliar with, this is the first time J has created something on his own with Legos (as opposed to following printed directions or copying a picture of a Lego creation). I'm pretty sure he got the idea to start making his own designs from a fair we were at recently, where kids had made their own designs incorporating pieces of various Lego sets. He asked me a bunch of questions about the sculptures that day, recognizing bits and pieces from sets he owns, and I explained that some kids like to put the pieces together in different ways to create their own original inventions. He really liked that idea, and obviously has been working up to this for awhile. He is QUITE proud of his original creation and has played with it much more enthusiastically than the stuff he's built previously. (Zoo Boy, by the way, has always been more interested in building original designs than in following any set pattern or instruction, partly because he can't really follow printed instructions yet, and partly because he's just that sort of free-thinking dude.)