Yesterday Sasha had a painting session with his sister and created several pieces for the website.

Painting #1

This first picture has a house, a man (who looks like a red letter H), a bucket full of red lava, with green clouds in the sky.

'Car'

This is actually Sasha’s wiping cloth. Before we threw it out, we noticed that it looked like a car, so he wanted to save it.

'Body parts'

Sasha claims this painting is of bones and muscles and other human body parts.

A man and his sword

This painting is of a man (the green blob) trying to pick up his sword (the silver blob) by the handle.

Prehistoric landscape

In this ‘painting’ (actually another of Sasha’s wiping cloths), the imaginative viewer can see a green dinosaur near the bottom, and a volcano erupting red lava.

Bird's nest in a bird's nest

The other day, on one of our regular mushroom hunts, Sasha and I found numerous bird’s nest fungi (Latin name: Cyathus striatus) growing on woodchips.  We took some home and ‘hatched’ the idea to create some art using a bird’s nest he had found at his grandparent’s house. The resulting piece is an interesting juxtaposition of elements from nature.

In the close-up below you can clearly see the ‘eggs’, which are actually spore cases called peridioles. When rain hits the cups in the right way, the spores fly out from the force of the impact, and the life cycle of Cyathus striatus is continued.

Close-up of peridioles

We would like to thank the anonymous bird that made this art possible.

Media: bird’s nest, Cyathus striatus

Sasha and some of his family members

This is a picture of some of Sasha’s family. Pictured in the larger house are his daddy, mommy, and little sister. His youngest sister hasn’t been born yet. In the smaller house are his aunt and uncle - he explains that in this picture, his cousins haven’t yet been born (paradox-his cousins are older than him). The houses are situated on a triangular hill with plenty of green grass and plants. On the left side of the hill, the observer will see two trees, one coniferous, the other deciduous. Between the trees are two brown hourglasses - recently, he’s been practicing the hourglass shape frequently. The blue patches above represent the sky, while the patch at the bottom left is water, for Grandpa to go fishing. Sasha also hastens to mention that our house has a chimney, “so Santa can get in”. 

Note that all the humans depicted have Sasha’s characteristic bellybutton dot - I find it interesting that he never forgets to put in this detail while leaving out a number or more rather obvious ones (like arms, hair, noses, feet, etc.).

Media: markers, paper