Big Head Monkey

She drew the big head and I drew the monkey parts!

By: Holli & Walker, age 3
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A Little Studio (space)

No art today (the Woog's at Mother's Day Out) but I did want to share her space in the studio. Since this little corner of my studio has been set up, she draws or colors more than once a day now, on her own doing I might add. She just goes over when she feels like it and doodles. It's pretty funny walking in and seeing different things on the Magna-Doodle.

On another note. It is on my list to do a blog redesign and try and get more people to participate I've set up a flickr group for big and little art, so add your art there too if you have an account.


By: Holli & Walker, age 3
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Pumpkin Junkin'

Ok guys, gather up those little munchkins and start junkin' your pumpkins!!

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magnet making

The Woog and I decided to make some magnets today. She drew the picture (just scribbles) and then helped me glue them to the back of marbles. Her favorite part was playing with the marbles and then putting them all up on the fridge.

These are her's:

And here are the ones that I made.

By: Holli & Walker, age 3
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She's a Grand Old Flag

Since it's Independence Day today we did more of a collage with junk rather than the things we normally do and instead of painting the Woog had the job of "sqiiiiiisshhhhh-ing" the glue and gluing on the fireworks (aka buttons). I decided to stick it in a frame and it's new home is in the kitchen. Happy 4th!

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Photo montage

I finally got around to putting new batteries in the Woog's camera and she started snapping everything she could.

I took 4 of her images and made a montage with a coupe of other overlay elements.

Wa-la, a fine art piece!

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Simple and sweet

A quick piece while we worked on Woogie Wednesday today. She painted a styrofoam plate while I worked on assembling the other piece and then we made "ocean animals."

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Making Daddy

Another fun Junk A Doodles piece!

Here's what we started off with:

I then asked her, what should we make out of all this?
"How 'bout daddy?!"

Alright, I guess since she already made mommy, it's daddy's turn.

She paints his goatee and then proceeds to paint herself for the duration of the project. "Hey, look at my tummy mommy!" Humm...whatever, she's having a bath tonight anyway.

And here's how it turned out:

I think anyone who knows him would say it looks like him. And he'd even wear a funky patterned shirt like that, much to my dismay.

By: Holli & Walker, age 3
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Make you!

I had a little time the other day while paint was drying on another project, so the Woog wanted to make something. This time she picked out what she wanted to make first.

"You!" she said.
Ok, lets make Mommy. Then she picked out a few items this time and I created everything. Pretty smart girl for picking the "H" but I'm sure it was at the top of the pile! A nice little sculpture of mommy :)

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The circus!

Here's a project we did last week. We started off with:

I then asked her, what should we make out of all this?
"The circus!!"

So we're off. She paints the frame and then the paper under the frame, then the table, then her hand...ok we're done painting. While she goes on to destroy my studio and toys, dess-up clothes, etc. she checks in on the progress with comments such as "amazing," "beautiful" and "awesome."

And here's how it turned out:

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Hey, it's a dog!

Just a quick project today. She picked the colors and stamped the wood blocks while I drew the dog.

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Let's make a bee!!

Here's what we started off with:

I then asked her, what should we make out of all this?
"Hey, there's a B!"
"Yes, that's a B, but what do you want to make?"
"A B!!"
"Like a bumble bee?"
"YEAH!!!!!"

So we're off. She's a little distracted by Dora (again) but she manages to paint the background and tells me she wants a blue bee (like the blue B I guess). She paints a little more and then just wants to watch Dora while she checks on me periodically.

And here's how it turned out:

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How about....me!

Here's what we started off with:

I then asked her, what should we make out of all this?
"Mmmmmm...how about me!"
"You?" I said
"YEAH! Hey, where's my nose?!" she yells.
"Umm...I'm not real sure where it's going to go."

Oh boy, how was I going to do this? While she paints the background, I play with the shapes to see how it would work. Ok, I got it! She finished painting the background and then moves on to dancing and singing to Johnny Cash (actually it's Joaquin Phoenix singing as Johnny Cash) never to return to helping me, but she does want to play with her little head I've made.

And here's how it turned out:

Her response: "Mama, how pretty! THREE! I'm three!"

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How about a......lion!

Here's what we started off with:

I then asked her, what should we make out of all this?
"A yiyon" she says (aka "lion).
I ask her what color it should be an she says orange. "OK, let's paint it orange."
She then proceeds to color and paint different pieces. Once assemblage starts, she looses interest in it and moves on to something else but she does check in with me from time to time to see it.

I start having my doubts about picking the light bulb because I have no idea where to put it. Ah, ha! The king of the jungle needs a crown! Perfect! And here's how it turned out:

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Make ahhh........cow!

Here's how we did it:

I pick out several random objects:

I then ask her what we should make.
"Ahhhh, ummmm......a COW!" she says.
"OK. What color cow should it be?"
"wed" (aka "red")
And then we go from there with her choosing colors, painting and coloring and then I take what she's done and put it all together to where it's a cow.

Not bad for our first go at it. She giggled at the balloon :) Oh, and notice there's no blue button like in the first picture? Yeah, "we" lost it during our creative chaos. I wanted to sit down with her and look over the before and after to see if she could pick everything out but she's already onto Dora and snacks, so maybe later.

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