Hello everyone! This week Tilly asked you to:
Draw something big and something small together. Maybe it’s you with something very small that you found outside. Or maybe it’s the most gigantic sea-monster that ever lived eating a miniature candy cane. It’s okay to use a few extra sheets of paper to fit the big thing, and it’s okay to use a magnifying glass when you draw the small thing. We can’t wait to see what you draw!
We’ll start with this wonderful pumpkin from Joe, who must still be in Halloween mode. His big: the pumpkin. His small: “spiders, and big-eye bugs.”
Another example of big and small: Joe (big) and his little sister Carla (small).
Here is Joe as a candy-crazed monkey.
And here Carla as a skeleton.
Apparently Carla is not yet candy crazed, but threatening to become so at any moment.
Here is Diego’s drawing, and I think it speaks for himself.
I admire Diego for taking the big/small challenge into the realm of the figurative.
And here’s a drawing from Alden’s pal Garcia.
In case you’re having trouble reading the narrative, here’s what it says:
The girl fell in love with a boy and got married. The girl found the sword of the rings. The boy found the locket. The fairy found the key. The mean fairy died. The scorpion almost snatched the nice fairy. The mirror got trapped in a whirlpool.
There you have it. Big stuff from a little guy.
And from Michael, proud dad of Diego and Garcia.
I can see where the boys get their sense of humor.
Here is a drawing from Tyler. His idea of big and small is to draw himself, “next to Taipei 101, the second tallest building in the world! Taking the elevator ride to the top at night and seeing all the city lights was one of his favorite memories from our month in Taiwan.”
I love being on top of tall buildings, though it always gives me a butterfly feeling in my stomach when I look down over the edge.
And here is a drawing 0f Spencer “standing next to a blue launch pad with a space shuttle blasting into the vastness of the sky.”
Big and small indeed.
Here is a drawing by Wesley, whose mom tells us that, “These are large and small Ninjas fighting large and small lasers. One ninja is in the middle of lots of lasers!”
To the poor ninja bearing the brunt of all those lasers, I say “ouch,” and “sorry,” and “work on your ninja skills.”
Here is Calli’s picture of, “a big fish with a little fish in it’s tummy.”
Calli’s mom Jessica admits to not being sure whether the little fish is there due to having been recently eaten or being not yet born.
For her big and small drawing, Alden drew a portrait of our family. Interestingly enough, she is big (the large pink head in the bottom right), and the rest of us are small.
I am the blue fellow to her left. Robbi is the pink presence on the left side of Alden’s head, and the boys are up there floating in the sky. Which is which? You tell me.
For her drawing, Robbi imagined a very large man on a very small motorcycle.
He doesn’t look very comfortable, does he? Don’t you think Robbi could have made the motorcycle a little bit smaller. Or the poor man’s legs just a little bit shorter?
And as for my drawing, don’t ask me to explain it.
Maybe this is a really big hammer or maybe this is a really small orange creature. It’s hard to say.
Notice how the nail is bent. This is what happens to me every single time I try to pound in a nail. No matter how much bigger than the hammer I might be, I just can’t seem to make it work they way I want it to.