Zoë’s Art

 

Zoë must have been watching closely whenever Josh would draw, because lately she just started to draw and draw and draw.  She’s been asking for pieces of paper and she turns around and comes back with these. With no help from anybody.

I particularly love this one above.  She played around with the “o” in her name and made lollipops and flowers and a smiley face and she colored each one!  How cute is that?  I love that she “framed her work, too!  Please excuse my mommy pride, my friends! 

She would usually draw quietly and then she would come up to me with her hands behind her back and tell me, “Mommy, I have a surprise for you.  Close your eyes.”  I would close my eyes.  I would peek through my fingers –because it takes her quite some time before she would tell me to open my eyes.  It turns out that she had folded up her drawing to a small square and then she would stand there slowly unfolding it before presenting the drawing to me.  She would do this each and every time.

This one here is supposed to be a field of flowers.  The people are tiny “because they are babies.”  The colorful squares are windows.  The black boxes are “clouds” and the blue lines are supposed to be “rain.”

We Have Another Budding Artist!

 

She woke up one day and decided to draw… and just like that, Zoë presented us with these…

She got Josh to help her tape those two drawings together and then explained to us that that’s her “big family.”  She included her friends in this drawing of her “family.”  I’m the fifth one from the right on the top drawing.  According to her, I was “eating noodles.”  That’s why there are quite a few “lines” where my mouth is supposed to be.  Chris is the one with the biggest head in the second drawing.

I love that her “people” have hair and hands.  I love that she added the sun and the sky.  Mostly I love that every one of her “people” is wearing a big smile.

She also did this --

That’s supposed to be her and Josh.  That negative space in the middle of the drawing is where she had written down our surname.  I’d taken it out… but apart from that, every single part of this drawing is totally Zoë’s, with no help from us whatsoever.  She spelled hers and Josh’s name herself and more importantly, she wrote the letters herself!   I don’t think I could write, let alone spell at that age.

Zoë’s Art

 

When Josh was doing those two paintings that I’d posted yesterday, Zoë –never to be outdone, –did two “paintings” of her own, too:

When I was praising Josh for how good his paintings were, Zoë asked, “How come you not tell me mine are good, too?”

I actually love the colors she has in hers and I thought hers are very modern-art-ish.  I’d told her just that and she was happy.

Like KungKung’s Paintings

 

When Josh showed me this painting, it literally took my breath away.  I don’t think I could’ve done a watercolor painting as nice as this one even if I’d tried.  And this was made by a 5-year old.  Josh has certainly picked up some watercolor  techniques from KungKung during KungKung’s last visit.

I love how the birds really look like they’re flying, how the mountains had ‘depth’.  I love his tree.  I love how his colors do not run messily into one another, but are  ‘clean’.    I just love this painting.  SO. MUCH.

Shortly after he did the one above, he followed it up with this one below.   Here, Josh decided to add a boatman, similar to what KungKung does in many of his paintings.

KungKung would be so proud.

School Journal (Winter 2009/2010) : #5