Thursday, June 26, 2014

Madeleine the Artist

This morning, while Julia sat down to write yet ANOTHER new book, Madeleine decided to do some drawing of her own.  In a flurry of wasted paper, Madeleine chose to draw a picture of various  items that were strewn about the table.  One picture per piece of paper. 

Some of the items which she drew, posed next to the drawing, are as follows:


The ginormous pencil she got at the Freedom Trail in Boston
(Perhaps the most phallic drawing either kid has ever done.)


Bleach spray cleaner (or as Madeleine called it, "chemicals.")



Her crab pen, also purchased in Boston


Scissors, which she then cut out, creating a conundrum, as pair of scissors can't cut itself out.



Her stuffed animal fish




Julia's quill pen, with which she was writing her new book



There were several other drawings, including my cup of coffee, so rest assured the entire pile of blank paper I had given the girls was gone in about ten minutes.  It's not as if Julia uses enough of our paper with her countless books, anyway.  Why not let Madeleine experiment with still art on a whole stack of paper herself??


Madeleine also illustrated a new book last night, loosely based on the movie "Hocus Pocus."  She even drew the three evil witches on the front cover:

In this picture, the witches are sucking the life out of Emily Binx, which occurs at the beginning of the movie.  Not a bad artistic representation of Bette Midler, Kathy Najimy and Sarah Jessica Parker, I must say.




Inside the book, Madeleine drew pictures of key events that occur throughout the movie.

The first two pages depict the three witches, the cat Binx (formerly Emily's older brother Thackery, who was turned into a cat by the witches), and Eddie, the graveyard mummy:

The faceless witches definitely add to the creepiness of this whole illustration.  And don't even get me started on Eddie.  Shudder.


We then see Emily Binx being hypnotised into trusting the witches and willingly heading to the chair upon which she will sit as they suck the life and youth out of her.



Then, in a completely unexpected crossover, a My Little Pony appears on the next page of Madeleine's "Hocus Pocus" book.  Not sure what she's doing there, but it's a fun little cameo from one of our pony pals.


Aaaaand we've turned our focus back to "Hocus Pocus" again on the next page.  Good-bye pony.  Hello Emily and Thackery Binx, reunited once again in the afterlife, or, as it appears in this picture, reunited in what is either a jail cell or a big human-sized box wrapped as a present.


And to finish the book off, we get another inspiring heart on the back cover of the book.  This one doesn't have stegosaurus spiky plates on it though.  It's just a regular old heart:

And everyone lived happily ever after!


There's no question that Madeleine loves to draw.  Maybe that's why she's feeling such Freudian love for her super-sized pencil.












4 comments:

  1. I wonder if the picture of Vackery and Emily in a present is actually a mix up between Vackery and Emily at the end of the movie and the two jerky guys who get put in that big hanging cage when Max takes his shoes back.

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    1. I thought it might be the big iron gate they go through. Or am I imagining that they go through a gate?

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    2. oh yeah, it could be that too! They DO go through an iron gate! "VACKERY, VACKERY BIIINNNNXXX. Vackery Binx, what took thee so long?" I had to wait 300 years for a VIRGIN to light a CANDLE!"

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    3. no it's when they walk through the golden gates together after vackery says bye to Danny!!

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