Earbuds, Pandora, Drawing Supplies...
On Tuesdays and Thursdays, I post a picture and just a few words.
One of Zoe's summer pastimes: art at the table with a drawing tutorial on the tablet and a favorite Pandora station playing through her earbuds.
(Why yes, she IS a bit of an introvert. How did you guess??)
One of my favorites as a kid was to either illustrate a story that my dad made up/generated, or make up a story for a series of pictures that he similarly pulled somehow from the magical computer. Back in the days of black-and-green screens and continuous perforated paper. 🙂
I definitely remember perforated paper! All those strips to pull off after printing...
My son loves art too! Where did you find the tutorials she uses? I need to get him involved in something at least SEMIproductive this summer!! 🙂
Zoe usually just googles, "How to draw _____", filling in the blank with whatever she's wanting to draw. Sometimes it's cartoon characters, sometimes it's animals. The tutorials have been great for her because she tends to get more frustrated when she's just drawing from her brain/memory.
"Coloring" was one of my absolute favorite pastimes as a child, so I made sure my own kids always had crayons, paper, fun scissors, play-doh...and usually I had classical music going as well. Did you know they sell coloring books with all sorts of patterns for us older kids? Still a favorite thing to do!
Yes! A friend of mind just gave one of those to my kids...it has fancy circular patterns that you can color in.
Aww, she looks just like Lisey there! So cute.
This reminds me of me as a kid - minus the pandora and tablet :-). I used to spend a lot of time recreating art projects I learned in school. I was likely listening to one of many mixed tapes I recorded on my boom box straight from the radio, haha.
We only JUST got a tablet (and the kids are rather young to use it on their own) so I got some "how to draw" books from the library and have pulled up you tube videos, too. Such a good downtime activity!
you tube Origami how to videos look great. cranes are considered very good luck birds to make. i have begun to go back to coloring again also. but i am using colored pens and fantastical pictures downloaded from the internet. i love doing this..(54yo)