The McDonaldSpot Art Gallery

Milk and Cookies available during normal artwork viewing hours...

We know that Anna loves crayons and pens. She has been honing her fine motor skills lately at home and at school! She has always been hesitant about paint (mess!) and smocks (made her claustrophobic?) until recently. We were so proud to get her snowman sponge painting from Mother's Day Out recently, when she volunteered to wear a smock for the first time! Perhaps she'll love art after all!

This morning I awoke early to her calls to change her diaper, and afterward I had her play in her room while I caught a few more winks of a power nap. I woke up about 20 min later and walked into our piano/formal dining room where Caleb has been working on a science fair project with Legos.

Our artist met me at the doorway with her latest pièce de résistance. Medium? Broad tip Sharpie.

This was taken later after a cleanup attempt with fingernail polish remover.

Then I saw my camera, which had the screen colored on. Great. Fortunately it wiped right off using the hem of my t-shirt.

Then I saw this work of art.



Naturally, I had interest in her work...and perspective...so I began to seek out more by considering the whole span of the gallery (with perspective in mind, if you know what I mean). There was Caleb's science fair project:


And her mixed media musical offering....

This is just the upper range. The last 5 keys on the opposite end were quite a sight to behold, and I don't know how I didn't get a photo of them.

And the blinds...




The bookshelf was an interesting study in both horizontal plane and vertical plane art. Amazingly, no books were harmed in the production of this art.

looking down on the horizontal piece

Her best work yet... Actually, we've been working on drawing faces....
Do I smile proudly or cry?

Then there was the storage tub and Caleb's Lego storage (for his project)...

And what was probably the scariest, er, I mean most moving work of all was the one that bridged the gap from that room into the living room: the demilune table. I was certain that finding this one meant the borders of the McDonaldspot gallery had expanded...

Whew. It hadn't. This was the final piece.

Thankfully, the light colored couch, chair, and carpet were spared. So were the leather couch and the walls. Does that make her a discriminating artist?
Tune in for the next post... Now what?