Saturday, August 9, 2008

Budding Artiste Matisse?

When I was little, I loved to draw, color, create. I took oil painting, cartooning, and kids' crafts lessons. However, loving something doesn't necessarily equate excelling at something. Actually, I do remember winning my fair share of coloring contests, but I was always pretty good at staying in the lines. Drawing the actual lines myself, however, proved to be more difficult. As I got older, I realized the terrific artistic talents of other classmates and stuck to writing and music as my main areas of interest. And that is why I was in complete amazement when I witnessed my two-year-old's most recent doodles:




I had to document them because they were gone as quickly as they were drawn with one pull of the lever. Considering my own artistic abilities, I was pretty proud of my little 28 month-old. All I know is, I'm giving credit to the recessive genes!

P.S. I am not discrediting the artistic talents of my husband, of course. He drew some pretty impressive Bob the Builder characters with chalk on our walkway just this afternoon.

7 comments:

Lisa said...

That is really good. I doubt I could do that. (Wish I could say it is because I excel in something else.)

Do you think you will one day be blogging about what a great painter he is and why does he keep writing alot instead of a lot?

:-)

FilmFather said...

Thanks for the props, honey. And if anyone out there needs a Van Halen logo for their notebook cover, I'm still pretty awesome at that too.

Anonymous said...

How cute! I thought for sure it was from Cameron until I scrolled down and read the rest/saw the pic. He is too cute drawing. You definitely need to get Connor some art lessons.

Kristen

Kelly said...

That is REALLY impressive! Way to go little man! :)

Kristin said...

Nice! What a great job! I wish my kids had some artistic ability! But I know they have other abilities that are just waiting to show themselves! :) But what a great job by your little one!! :)

Gemma said...

Awesome! What great drawings! We need to get him to do some of these masterpieces on a sketch pad to save for posterity. That way, when he's being interviewed on Oprah, he can document when this gift first appeared!

G4and2Cats said...

Very nice!!! My Pumpkin is getting a lot of practice on her older sisters Magna-Doodle just like that.. but ours has Princesses on it.. oh.. and it's PINK! :)