Artwork

After Madeleine made a desperate plea this morning: "Mommy! Can you help me color Boots GREEN head?" I realized it was time to buy some new markers. Pressing as hard as she could with her green marker, she was barely able to get even a streak of color across Boots' face, proving the current set of markers to be utterly dried out. I used the marker-buying outing as a reason for her to get dressed and get her hair done, since every morning she has a huge melt-down about having to change out of her pajamas. After some initial resistance, she warmed to the idea of getting her clothes on so that we could head out to buy new markers, and was quickly dressed and raring to go:



She is truly IN LOVE with her new markers. She has spent a significant chunk of the day coloring with earnest attention:



She went to town in her Dora coloring book, Ariel book, and even got over her fear of Snuffleupagus and colored page after page in her Sesame Street book. Here is a sampling of her prolific artwork:



I think the caption should instead be "King Triton gets gangrene and vomits blood all down his beard."




"Burp spends a little too much time in the sun and suffers melanoma of the nose."



"An albino Oscar the Grouch comes down with chicken pox."



"Ernie and Burp get in a fight and wind up with bruised ears and noses and bloody fingernails. Oh, and it's Oscar's birthday, but he's hiding because he has chicken pox."



"Classic Madeleine, without the pinkeye."


Not only did Madeleine color pages in her books, but she did a bit of free art as well. Her imagination was in full swing as she colored, with each subsequent circle representing some other image that she described to me as she drew:


MADELEINE: Mommy! That's a hippopotamus. Look! It's a RHINOCEROS. That's his HEAD! Look, it's a WALRUS! That's his NECK!

(Just in case you needed her explanation of what it is she drew. In my mind, it's all PERFECTLY clear.)