Absolute Laziness!!!

My children have been lazy for the past couple of weeks and haven't been churning out anything. With that being said, I do have a ton of older pictures to upload, but I have been to lazy to scan them and post them as well. We have achieved absolute laziness!!!

We haven't really had much time to encourage them to draw anything new with the other tasks life brings our way (babysitting for friends, birthday parties, math, reading, etc.). We have been spending a lot of time recently getting ready for Maria and I's mission trip to Germany. I hope she takes the time to be inspired while we are there. Until then, I would like to continue to post here with something and all I have on my computer at work is a piece I did a while ago that includes Maria when she was 2 (her modeling is artistic, right?) Anyways...

Maria-6-Model

"Princess Butterfly and 

the Traveling Turtle"

Wanted to make it look like it was found in the bottom of a circus trunk 

(whatever that means). Needs more destruction in my opinion. 

Thanks for stopping by and checking out her cuteness!!!

God Bless

Mark 16:15

"And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation."

Happy Resurrection Day!!!

Here's a little Drawing Maria did her first time experimenting with Adobe Illustrator. She's used Photoshop for a while now and seemed to take to it pretty well.

Easter Bunny

Maria-5-Digital

She's going to get around to coloring it soon, but we are too busy having a fun time on this beautiful Resurrection Day. Christ is Risen Indeed!!!

1 Corinthians 15:20 NIV

 "But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, 

the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep."

Maria - Trip to the Pet Store

For a fun, free zoo like experience, take your little ones to the Pet Store. We did, and Maria drew a picture to prove it :)

The Pet Store

Maria-5-Pen

She's feeding the fish!

God Bless!

Love, Maria

Mark 1:17 NIV

"Come, follow me," Jesus said, "and I will make you fishers of men."

Illustration Friday - Elissa - Cultivate

I really didn't think my older girls were going to do anything for this weeks Illustration Friday, and then I came home to be pleasantly surprised. I love it when my girls pour over a drawing all by themselves and give me something that they are proud of. Elissa really mad me happy because she told me the day before, "I can't draw broccoli," and I told her, "That's because you've never drawn it before." I then began to explain how you look at it in order to draw it, and if you mess up, you have learned something along the way that you can put to the next drawing you do. You keep drawing and drawing until it looks the way you want. She did!!!

Cultivate

Elissa-4-Colored Pencl

 

I really like that her blond hair is pulled up in this picture. The design on the shirt alsotells me that she's paying attention to detail. She's holding a green tomato and her broccoli. Like I told her, draw it until you are happy!

Here's a link to her sister's picture for Illustration Friday

God Bless You, 

Elissa

Gen 2:8 KJV

"And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; 

and there he put the man whom he had formed."

Illustration Friday - Maria - Cultivate

I really didn't think my older girls were going to do anything for this weeks Illustration Friday, and then I came home to be pleasantly surprised. I love it when my girls pour over a drawing all by themselves and give me something that they are proud of.

Cultivate

Maria-5-Colored Pencil

Here's a link to her sister's drawing. 

Again, I couldn't be prouder of both of them this week and really pray that everyone learns the lesson I learned a while ago. Some times you have to stand back to make room for their imagination!

God Bless You,

Maria

Gen 2:8 KJV

"And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; 

and there he put the man whom he had formed."

Maria - A Bird and A Kitty

Sometimes I'm going to dedicate posts to one of my kids. Maria is the spotlight for today. She is the reason I even started an art blog (it was just for her and then turned into one for all of them). She produces the most work and will probably take up a good deal of space here because of it. She is the oldest, and has the most patience in completing her pictures, so that's another reason you'll see a lot of her work on here. Without further ado:

I See A Bird

Maria-5-Colored Pencil

My guess is that she saw a bird one day and decided to memorialize it. 

Poor Sun. She sees that thing everyday and didn't say anything about it :)

Kitty

Maria-5-Colored Pencil

This the one of the first pictures she ever did that really showed her 

talent. I told her we could take the kitty and turn it into a movie one day.

Has that happened? No, terrible dad that I am, but I did do this:

It's not what I promised but it's something I did to help make the process of

animating her work a little easier. I'm going to get her to draw all the parts needed

and then help her animate it one day with Photoshop. I'm really looking forward to this.

Thanks for stopping by.

Blessings!

Psalm 103:13 ESV

"As a father shows compassion to his children, 

so the Lord shows compassion to those who fear Him."

Illustration Friday - Maria - Stir

Maria was in a hurry to do this one. We went through all the things that stir could mean and she liked her mom's idea of a little girl beginning to stir out of bed. I was hoping she would do stir crazy, but alas, It was not to be. Here it is.

Beginning to Stir

Maria-5-Colored Pencil

 

She's stretching so that's why her neck is long. Daddy thinks she woke up on the wrong side of the bed. Mommy thinks Daddy should say nicer things but Daddy thinks that's pretty nice ;)

God Bless You!

Ephesians 5:14 God's Word Translation

"Because light makes everything easy to see. That's why it says: 

"Wake up, sleeper! Rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.""