Rolf's Hideaway?
A face with glasses. Very abstract. The glasses are rectangular. Not a typical portrait.
I don't believe this necessarily at all, but if one looks at the smile in the sun face, it is not a curved smile. It has sharp angles to it.
So to me it implies a false smile. Smiling, but cruelty behind the smile.
I am just throwing it out there as a thought. I am not committed to it at all.
Plus, the sun shapes are very much like daggers to me, not friendly at all. They seem ot be thrusting out from the sun aggressively.
It's a sharp picture, not a soft one to me at all.
What does this mean? Nothing, as other people have totally different ideas.
Happy Saturday.
I wanted to cheer myself up and look at Kyron's Art again...
IMO - I think Kyron probably copied the sun drawing for a directed art study class.
We discussed this weeks ago on the numbered general thread. Doing art units (native american art, impressionism) in Art is common - wholistic study and then the kids are invited to choose a piece they've studied and try to replicate it or stylize from it. I asked the forum for input because I could not figure out how a 7 year old could draw such a picture without being very very gifted. (This isn't to say Kyron's not a wonderful artist - he is. It's not that easy to copy so well!)
My kids are old enough that they didn't have this type of art education experience in early years in school. As it turns out, many on the forum do, and had a good idea how the sun project likely came to be... Based on thier feedback, to me this seemed the most logical explanation of Kyron's widely publicized art.
Again JHMO, The squirrel picture by Kyron is NOT a squirrel at all - it is a chipmunk. Kids know the difference. Kids care about the difference. Young science geeks with boy scout older brothers really care about the difference. You can bet Kyron's family taught him the difference. (I won't insult our little outdoorsman Kyron by calling his chipmunk a red squirrel!) :biggrin:
(That doesn't mean that Kyron wasn't aware that the red squirrel is special to his stepmom - it probably means he'd already done 10 red squirrels and decided to do a chipmunk. In all likelihood, he made yet another drawing of a woodland creature expecting to have it admired by his stepmom, especially.)
The most recent photo of a Kyron work of art we have - be-spectacled self-portrait - might be more indicative of Kyron's young artisitic ability. I totally love his portrait, (and so does he!). He's in the woods! And so happy! And, man does he LOVE LOVE LOVE his glasses.
When I first saw the book site a few days ago I wondered what came first..Terri's nickname or the book titled (I assume written with her in mind) Terri, That Red Squirrel ..Any idea? TIA!
Just to bounce off your post regarding the book. In light of Kristian Horman's statement of being sexually abused by his grandfather, the website of these stories gives me the creeps.....all about secret places, hiding places, etc. The author is Kaine and Kristian's father, correct? Does anyone else find this website suspicious or do I need a vacation from WS? JMOO
This is beautiful. I studied childhood art education in College a little bit..as boys grow up and socialize with other boys in school etc they usually move away from themes such as these to themes that are more in a 'boy' than 'girl' section..like spaceships, cars etc. So this is strange to me...IMO it shows a very happy unaggressive nature and is very personal...(psychologists usually get children to draw pictures of how they feel instead of verbalizing it as their drawing capabilities usually outstrip their ability to describe situations/feelings at this age!)
I have also worked with children who drew like this a few years ago and have kept up their interest in art/drawing and have become quite accomplished! I am a potrait artist and his drawings remind me of what I used to draw like when I was little. I hope he gets to express himself so happily again.
Someone posted 3 days ago that the reading book for Kyron's class had a story about a squirrel. They might have been asked to draw a picture to reflect their impression of the squirrel in the story. IMO, I don't know that much can be inferred from these drawings without more personal info r/t Kyron.
It does look like a 7 year old tried to color the squirrel and background.
Not really. Neil is adoptive father of kaine & kristian. They may have had a number of grandfathers in their lives.
Both Neil & Melvin, Neil's father seem of academic ilk. Neil was a literature major at Wash U. People who love literature often take to writing things themselves. Looks like he wrote for his grandchildren. In my research I fouond that many of character names in the books are actual Horman grandchildren names.
The children's books are about the area where Neil actually lives. Snoqualmie area is in a national forest. Beautiful country. I got the feeling everything he described is real - and the grandchildren have walked to this special place with him on several occaisions...Rolf's Hideout.
I'm curious- are there even red (or grey) squirrels in that area?