Yesterday I had a very sudden thought as to who the Mystery Surprise piece might be. I have started a list (two, actually, because this idea can go several ways) and I will post the lists when I'm done thinking about who the model might be.
In the meantime, here is another throwback post on my own attempts at drawing when I was a child. More goodies that came from those boxes of elementary schoolwork that my mother had saved!
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I seem to remember a few things from my childhood differently from the way they really were. For example, I was taught to not doodle on schoolwork in elementary school, and I passed that directive on to my own students.
Apparently I was never actually taught that and my memory is off, or perhaps it was that I did not listen to my own teachers very well!
In going through the boxes of old school work that my mother had saved for me,
and even Science, it is clear that my mind was frequently not on what was going on at school, but dreaming about horses instead.
I even used the old trick of eraser art - removing the color on the cover of a book with an eraser. Can you see how I have turned that square into a stall with a horse looking out over the barn door with an X on it? Look closely and you can see an ink drawing of a horse on this cover, too.)
Year after year of school, my papers are covered in horses (and once in a while, a mermaid. Go figure.)
My artwork has not improved much in the intervening years, but I do still occasionally doodle horses on papers. And, when I was grading the work of my students who were horsey like me, I'd often draw them a little smiling pony next to their grade.
My mother always told me that she could document my love of horses back to when I was two. I wish she were still living - I'd love to explore that more with her now.
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More art coming tomorrow - and hopefully some BreyerFest news, too!
I particularly like the math assignment. // Far from a mermaid, I see a camel. But it's good to have all kinds of animals.
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