My son the budding artist
You know how it is watching your child everyday and then all of a sudden a new thing suddenly clicks. Lately, for Ellis, it has been crayons. I don't know if all of a sudden he started pressing down hard enough or what it was, but he's finally really gotten the hang of crayons. He loves to color. He puts the crayon box in front of him and vigorously scribbles casting waves of color all over the paper. We have a paper roll attached to his little table from Ikea, and it's a good thing, because his strokes are from the limiting 8.5"x11" of normal printer paper (the only other paper we have around).
This is one of his first pictures in the new style, the style of boldness and abandon and wanting to use every color (some of which he can name by the way!). I just love it. I know to any other person it is just scribbles, but it warms a mother's heart.
I think I want to scan it and print it out on paper and make a pillow for his room. We'll see. I found this great site with suggestions for printing onto fabric.
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How cool that he already knows some colors and that he's being an artiste! Your pillow idea is a neat one, and it reminds me of a pillow I made when I was a kid (that my mom might still have, btw). They gave us these heart-shaped pieces of paper at school and had us color them however we wanted, and then they did the fabric transfer thing and made pillows out of them. I colored mine with a rainbow, because I was obsessed with rainbows throughout my childhood. Anyway, it was a great keepsake. I'm sure Ellis would love to know when he gets older what some of his first coloring endeavors looked like. =)
Posted by: Erica | February 24, 2007 06:12 PM
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I have many of L's saved in the cedar chest. The joy of the firstborn!
Posted by: sperlonga | February 24, 2007 07:59 PM
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Aren't those rolls of paper great? I had gotten my niece one awhile back with a holder to hang it on the wall above a table, although, I don't ever think my sister got around to actually hanging it...sigh!
Posted by: Dawn | February 26, 2007 04:13 PM