Little Miss’ First Artjam

In the end I spent about 2 hours in a cab over the course of ferrying each Rockstar there and back separately because it was looking like the Miss was going to be hit by a major nap incident around the time of Rockstar’s original Artjam playdate… But I still really wanted her to have a first Artjam because she appears to love colors a lot more than Rockstar ever did. So she came two hours early, did her thing, then I rushed her back and bathed her, settling her in her feeding chair (the helper can still handle a bit of feeding and a nap) before navigating Wellington Street traffic a second time for Rockstar’s playdate.

The Miss takes a first look around, amid a sea of tantalizingly clean canvases…

“In the jung-le, the might-y jung-le…..”

And then… to work! (Yes she chose to start with red herself)

Pose-y pic…

Blink-y pic…

The Why Yes, I’d Like More Paint Maneuver…

The Sideways I-Don’t-Know-Why-She’s-Painting-Like-This Maneuver…

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The Up-Down, All-Around set of moves:

And The What The Heck, I Have TWO Hands

After that I started to rotate the canvas, because I really wanted a semi-artsy canvas, and otherwise most of her strokes would be up-down or splat-splat (yes this is an actual “art stroke” if you have a toddler)… I wanted her to do an Aelita Andre-like one, pouring paint and glitter on a canvas on the floor, but they don’t really encourage it because 1) the canvasses are packaged/ stored standing up which means all your hard work pouring paint a certain way will be flowing downwards unless you bring it home immediately, carrying it the entire time like you would a pizza box and leave it to dry like, a week, and 2) something about some toddlers not staying off the paint-filled canvas and you might have a hard time recognizing your child after (not to mention you’d have to bring your paint-filled child in the cab home unless you brought lotsa clothes to change… They always supply aprons, The Miss just didn’t want one, but if it’s a toddler they probably aren’t going to keep the paint on the aprons only, anyways)

*Brief Interlude while I packed a now-drowsy Miss home, rushing to make Rockstar’s official playdate even as the Artjam guys packed the Miss’ masterpiece for Rockstar and I to pick up later…

And then back wit Da Rockstar

Yes that’s his painting – he chose Tatooine from the Google search “because it’s Anakin’s home planet”, and that is some laser battle going on with I forget what faction attacking the planet… Have to ask him again… Btw he almost always paints on very dark backgrounds – not just because of the Space fixation, when he did a sea one it also had to be very deep sea with ugly mug fish in some evolutionary food chain – this is why I said the Miss likes color a lot more..

Also, he says I spelled the planet wrong in my original blog post. (Tattooine, Tatooine, whatever who cares, only my 6 year old and like, a gadzillion Star Wars fans.)

Eye-ing the Miss’ painting in its box, I then decide to try and do a matching one, for a “mother and daughter series”. It turns out to be really hard to match the Miss’ random strokes and color choices and I’m hard-pressed to remember what she did, especially as hers is already boxed up.

This is Rockstar adding the same glitter to mine…

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And here’s the two, side by side:

Can you easily tell which is the Miss’ and which is mine?

I originally wanted to have you guess, and then answer in the next post, but everyone I asked guessed right….. eventually, after some thought.

I put the Miss’ flappy butterfly on hers

The title of this mother-and-daughter combined work?

Butterfly In Abstract Flower Garden.

Because what else are you going to do with toddler paintings?

(No, really, that whole thing is the title :D)

ps: We appear to have lost her Bambi hair clip after this saga.