Another of our summer “pot luck” activities was a study of shape and colour. The idea was to create a silhouette, divide it up into sections, and then fill it with different shades of the same colour.
My ten year old, a comic book fanatic, decided to draw the recognisable silhouette of Batman. Green is his favourite colour so he filled Batman with shades of green and that made us think how cool it would be if farmers could make their fields into silhouettes so we could all enjoy the fun shapes when flying overhead.
My nine year old kept things simple and symmetrical with the clean shape of a butterfly. He used gold and silver gel pen to colour it in which gave it a very pleasing shimmer in the sunlight.
My thirteen year old chose a love heart and filled it with mostly metallic blue gel pen ink. The glossiness of it made me think of a faceted gem stone.
My seven year old went off piste a bit. That is OK. It is all about being creative after all. He drew funny little monster characters and divided them up using lines and then coloured them. One is a wee weirdo guy he called an “Igor beetle” and one is – as he explained – a “vampire butterfly”.
I drew the silhouette of a pig and coloured it using watercolour pencils in neutral, stone shades. It kind of looks like a patio shaped like a pig.
A Pict in PA 
From a fellow PA immigrant (although I only moved here from Baltimore MD haha) Welcome! The drawings look relaxing!
Thank you! Always good to “meet” another transplant. Are you addicted to pretzels yet? Ha ha!
In my household, we consider pretzels vegetables and ALWAYS have bag lying around! (Pretzels are made of flour, is made of wheat, wheat is a grain, which is a VEGETABLE haha!)
I like your thinking! I don’t like pretzels but I’m going to apply that to tortilla chips. My kids had barely ever tasted a soft pretzel when we lived in Scotland but they soon became addicted to pretzels upon arriving in PA.
Reminds me of my old lost sketchbook. I am 19 and still do such miserable things. 😛 Lovely post. 🙂
Thank you. I hope my kids continue to be creative too.
These are wonderful works, Laura. The kids are on a roll again and I’m glad to see their art once more.
Thank you!
Oh, I love your six-year-old’s stuff! I wish I could colour outside the lines with as much authority and abandon! Confident use of colour, too. The batman tower in greens is also gorgeous…dang, I should really make time to visit your blog more often (now that I’ve got internet access) there’s so much going on! This is my quiet morning treat, today…sifting back through your posts until I have to make lunch. 🙂
What a wonderfully complimentary and kind comment. Thank you. That little one of mine always does his own spin on things. It’s great.
You know I am so bad at commenting on other people’s blogs, though I often lurk just to see what you’re up to. While you have been so consistently generous with your time, commenting on my posts, I feel ashamed. I am so looking forward to getting back home, to an internet connection in my home, and spending more time building and nourishing my internet friendships. Some of the nicest people I now *know* are internet folks I don’t really know at all. Be nice to connect on a more real level.
I think all of us who follow your blog completely understand and appreciate that your haphazard internet access means you can’t reciprocate. No worries.
You also made me realize I wrote he was six when he turned seven last month. Doh.
unforgivable. LOL 😉
Ooh… this one looks like something even I could try. 🙂 Nice!
Go on and have a try, Amy.
This is another great idea! And it’s so interesting to see how each of you takes the prompt and puts their own unique stamp on it. Your 7 year old actually reminds me a bit of myself at that age… everything had to be a monster, ghost or vampire 😀
He’s not like me in that regard either. I draw a lot of zombies.