The artist (in pajamas) explains her work
Last week, Elsa and Clio came home from preschool with pictures they’d made of thumbprint snowmen, with sparkly bits of snow pasted around them, and magic marker additions of snowman features, hats, and background accents.
The pictures looked quite different from each other. Clio’s was a tranquil, minimal scenario, while Elsa’s was a busy explosion of color. (More pictures after the jump.) I thought they were both fantastic, and the girls were very proud, so I taped them up on the sliding doors at the back of our house.
As Clio and I stood admiring them (Elsa had busied herself elsewhere), Clio asked, “Which one do you like better?”
“I like both of them,” I said. “I like how yours is very peaceful and pretty, like the snowman is standing in a quiet snow flurry, and I like how Elsa’s is exciting and colorful, like there’s a big, rainbow-colored magical snowstorm going on.”
“But which one is better? Do you like mine better because it’s peaceful?”
Read the rest of this post (and see Clio’s drawing) over at Baby Squared on Babble.
