I celebrated my 50-something birthday
It was just me
and my youngest son, Ryan
left here at home this weekend
Mr G. had to go on a Boy Scout
Turkey Dinner camp-out
There was no one that could take his place
and they needed two deep leadership
or none of the scouts could have gone
My love left me with a sigh
and a smooch
a beautiful and touching card
and a big bottle of Wine !
Anyway Ryan surprised me with breakfast
He made me two eggs
and a cinnamon raisin bagel
and coffee
I showed him how to make coffee recently
He says he likes the smell of it
...always asks if he can try a cup
I always tell him it not good for him
What a bad habit to start at 12, right ?
Would you let a 12 yr old drink coffee ?
So we spent much of the weekend doing some art projects
Ryan wants to enter an art contest
(kids only) at my studios building
he has to turn in one or two art works
by the end of this month.
This is so fun
He wants to do a drawing of a character
from a video game he plays called Sky Rim
and the other art is something I asked him to do
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| This is art from a few yrs back done by Ryan He was in third grade I really liked it a lot |
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| It is made by printing out a photo (he did himself) then trace the contours onto a piece of foam I think they used foam from food packages like what meat comes on in the store so an indentation is made . Then roll on some paint and press construction paper down on top of the "carved" foam |
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We wanted to try it with Ryan's niece, Jillian so I printed out a photo and we went over parts of the photo, that was taped over the box, with a ball point pen |
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| This is the Jillian stamp impression kind of hard to see sorry |
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and here is the stamped impression on a piece of black construction paper we used white and black acrylic craft paint. Turned out pretty good I think there are two black prints and two white prints maybe we should mount them on canvas and make a collage with them |
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| Ryan did this one this is Bandit our dog Ryan used the foam egg carton lid to make this one next we have to roll paint on it and stamp it on a piece of paper |
Ryan is more interested in doing his dragon and warrior drawing I'll show you that when he has it more finished It is so fun to do art with Ryan - KAT - |
10 comments:
What a fun project for kids! The outcome is wonderful. xo Diana
Really neat process. I am going to send this post to a friend who teaches are through email. She has been looking for fresh ideas. Thanks for sharing and for the lovely story.
Happy 50th!! :)
What a great idea. I must try that some time. Maybe 1/2 cup of coffee with lots of milk wouldn't hurt Ryan. I think it's wonderful that he made you breakfast. What a wonderful son. He did good too on his piece. Happy Birthday, late or not. Hope you enjoyed and that's a really good year. Enjoy. Great post.
very cool art projects! and happy birthday to you!!!
btw, i began drinking coffee each morning when i was about 10 i think. :)
Sounds like a good birthday even though your husband wasn't there, your son looks to have inherited your talent for sure, I thinks its great he wants to learn to cook,
Happy Birthday to you! Sounds like you had some fun! And 50s are young....you know! Hugs! ♥
Love the breakfast he made you--yum. What a sweetie, and a talented artist too. I would let him drink coffee--but I'm a loosey-goosey kind of mom. When they were in h.s. I wanted them to drink coffee to help them wake up for school. As someone suggested, maybe half milk. Very European. Happy Birthday!
Tell Ryan I want a Jilli impression just like that for Christmas!! We so hope to see you guys. We'll give you a call on Thanksgiving! Love you!
Jess
By the way, is that your favorite pic of all that set we had done? Let me know!
Jess
Hope you had a fabulous birthday :)
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