Last weekend Oscar & I worked on a ceramic piece together - we picked it up from firing yesterday. Unintentionally the cup became very surrealist-influenced - very Joan Miro. We talked a bit about the artist & I showed Oscar some paintings when we got home. He was pretty stoked...I mean, Miro is kinda magnetic for kids. I remember my pediatrician's office had a few prints on the waiting room walls & I was fascinated. This morning when I asked Oscar what he wanted he said "something that painter did." I was super excited until it was followed up with "or batman. or a fart." Oh, so cultured we are here. Happy Tuesday! xoxo
Yep, another insect morning...hope you can handle it. This one is a summer fave though - the musical cicada. Every August we hear them in the trees & Oscar looks hard for them within the branches. Not too easy to spot, but since I'm a countrified city chick, I always find the empty nymph shells for him on the trunks & hang them on my shirt. What? Happy Monday! xoxo
Gross, I know. Oscar is kinda fascinated with cockroaches this summer - no idea why. Even I don't like them, and I'm pretty tolerant of if not excited by all living things...ick. It's less about the actual insect than the association of them with filth I think. I mean, we dig the hissing cockroaches in the Madagascar exhibit at the Bronx Zoo. Somehow, seeing a regular ol' NYC cockroach racing along the subway platform is way less, uh, educational? You know what I mean. Anyhow, doodle is. Happy Friday - happy weekend! xoxo
Man, I love when Oscar asks me to draw an animal. This morning's doodle opt - beavers. So so many jokes here...but let's stick to rated G if possible, hm? Seriously, beavers are dope - little furry architects with super charged energy packs. All this & they are freaking adorable. Oscar's motivation here is tied to the animated series, Angry Beavers.
The characters in the show have none of these qualities, so I am drawing the real deal. Happy Thursday! xoxo
Yeah, I don't really have much here. This is what Oscar wanted me to draw today...a trash can. He doesn't have much justification - he said he just wants that on his bag. Hmmm...veiled commentary on his snacks perhaps? I suspect it has something to do with Oscar the Grouch, but when I suggest this I get an adamant "No! That show is for babies." To conclude: garbage cans = good, Sesame Street = sucks. There you have it. Happy Wednesday! xoxo
Oscar has been running with me a couple days a week - so far so good. The highlights - lots of chat time & energy expended. It's also super cool to answer questions about stuff you totally take for granted as a grown up. "Why do we swing our arms when we run?" & "Is sweating good for you?" are nightly conversation starters while we are hitting the pavement. Of course, there are some questions that pop up based on what's going on all around us that are a bit trickier to explain to a 6 year old. For example: "What are those people doing in the grass? They're not exercising are they?" Um, yeah...avoid the area around the basketball court in the park - noted. Happy Tuesday! xoxo
Ah, summer hi-jinx. Oscar loves him some good shark talk...especially when we are at the beach...in the ocean. One of his favorite things to do is yell "Shark! Look out!" when we go kinda far out. Yeah, other beachgoers sure do appreciate that. Oscar is so enamored with sharks he has already chosen one for his first tattoo about 12 years from now. This morning's request called for some blood & a hapless scuba diver with an early expiration date. Kids! Happy Monday! xoxo
