A Portrait of the Artist
Robin loves to paint. He would do it every day, but I don’t let him, because the clean-up time involved afterwards is serious. He doesn’t like crayons or colored pencils nearly so much—it’s paints and brushes that really do it for him.
Here’s my favorite of his recent compositions:
The key to getting eye-pleasing works out of him is to provide him with harmonious colors, and to take the page away before it gets completely filled up. It’s also fun to ask him what the paintings are. “A yellow robot!” “A monkey-whale!” “Ants!”
June 26th, 2011 at 9:48 am
That last one has a kind of Chinese dragon (or maybe Kirin) thing going on. Right paw slightly raised, walking towards and to the left of the viewer.
June 26th, 2011 at 10:31 am
I totally see that!