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Claire Art #3

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For a while, I’ve been posting the girls’ art to the portfolio section of this blog.  But the portfolio is tedious and cumbersome to manage, so I’m going back now to doing the art as a regular blog.  While Kit and I were in London, Joyce scanned our big backlog of the girls’ art.  Here is a bunch of Claire’s art and other creations from the last several months…

Art Portfolio

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The short-lived art-samples feature has been converted to a portfolio.  The new format seems to make more sense for art samples.

Check out the new portfolio page for the girls’ art.  The portfolio will be continually (if intermittently) updated with their latest work.  It also has some other cool pictures that the girls did not do, but you can pick to see Claire and Molly’s pictures specifically.

Art Samples #2

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Continuing with the new art samples series, here are the latest highlights from Claire and Molly.  This covers the last batch to come home from school before the holiday break.

As usual, Claire’s drawings are full of cryptic words that are a really nice, courageous shot at sounding out the words phonetically.

“You are a flower” 
I can’t tell what this one is trying to say, but I like it.
No idea what “GOTAN” is, but I love this picture.
It looks like it’s out of a botanist’s field journal.  
This one is infused with a bit of Christmas cheer.

Molly is making her mark with finger paint and stickers.

Art Samples #1

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Another new recurring idea I just had for this blog is to show regular samples of the girls’ drawings every few months.  I recently got pretty quick with the scanner, so now I don’t mind scanning some art to include here and there.

Claire’s drawing has taken a jump in sophistication lately.  Her recent pictures now include large, complex scenes and a range of ideas and emotions (not just hearts/flowers/butterflies, although those are still quite prominent).  Some of her pictures even have a little bit of a story to them.  Here are a recent few samples, along with Claire’s explanation.

Drawn in Halloween colors, this is a picture
of a flower with a separate picture
contained within each of its pedals.
Plus a bunch of other stuff going on.

The boy has the jumprope.
The girl on the left wants it.
The girl on the right wants to help.
The girl on the right is so nice
that she has a cup of “bug food”
stuck to her head to feed the bugs.

I don’t actually know the explanation for this one.
But it is certainly fun and interesting.

This one is based on the cover art for
Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots,
an album by the Flaming Lips.
Claire likes the underdog girl protagonist Yoshimi,
but she also likes the robots
because they’re pink, and pink = good.
So it’s a toss-up.

I wanted to include Molly’s art too, but of course Molly just turned two and is not able to do art like Claire yet.  But Molly did recently create a sparse and provocative piece, which I like to call “One Star Sticker, and a Slight Footprint”.

Okay, so Molly is concentrating on other things right now besides art, like honing her talking skills and learning about the potty.  You’ve got to start somewhere, right?