Vivian's Dream

I am teaching summer art camps this year. I LOVE it. There is something so liberating hanging around these wonderfully unencumbered thinkers. They brilliantly and refreshingly refuse to accept limitations to their thinking. To them anything and everything is fair game and I am eating it up. I can only hope they are getting as much inspiration from me as I am from them. 

Yesterday, one of my new little friends grabbed my hand and told me her dream.  "Sometimes, I wish I was a butterfly so I could fly around and see the world they way they do", she smiled. 

So Vivi, this sketch is for you. I hope you continue to dream and imagine all sorts of things and then share them with the world.

Borrow

Every month the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) has a drawing contest for its illustrators. They give you a word prompt and then you draw something pertaining to the word. It's always a lot of fun to see everyone's interpretation of a word. I used to be pretty good about submitting entries but things have gotten a bit crazy the past few months and I have fallen off the rails. Yesterday I decided I would check out the prompt for this month and submit an entry. Little did I know the entry was due today. So last night and this morning I cranked out an entry. I would loved to have a week to work on it but alas, that is just not going to happen right now.

So here is my quick entry. I had fun with it, even though I didn't have enough time.