Life Imitates Art Imitates Life

Our little artist really likes to draw. Her favorite thing to draw, by far, is a rainbow. This usually involves little blocks of color all of the page that are very bright and full. They're probably some of my favorite pieces as well. However, Zoe is capable of doing lots of different art with a range of mediums. Here is a sample of some of those.

And here is the artist proudly showing off one of her pieces.

When Zoe is drawing I like to join in to show her that old folks like art too. One of my go to drawings at this time is to make little caricatures of each of us, put angry eyebrows on them with a pouty face. This seems to entertain Zoe immensely. She even posed with my rendition of her and made the appropriate face.

If you have never seen Zoe make this face, then you probably haven't seen her much since she turned 2. You can see all of this artwork, and more, in the Artwork album on Flickr.

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