Last Friday, Tilly asked you to draw your Halloween costume:
Draw your Halloween costume! You can draw just the costume, or you can draw yourself wearing it, like I did. Or if you aren’t going to wear a costume on Halloween, draw whatever you’re wearing that isn’t a costume.
Here is a drawing from Joe, whose mom had this to say:
“They all dress as pirates. Pig, Chick, and two Dogs. That bottom one doesn’t have a pirate hat.”
I love Joe’s imagination, though I feel a little bad for the dog with no hat. Sometimes life is unfair.
Spencer and Tyler, who have been in Taiwan for about a month, have just returned. It seems they did this week’s drawings on a train during their journey home.
Here’s what their mom has to say:
We spent Halloween this year at an unlikely party hosted by some Brits we met on the road at an abandoned sugar factory in rural Taiwan that has been taken over by artists. There was an aboriginal band playing as we found masks hidden around the factory. Then came the face paint. It was . . . unique.
In his drawing, Tyler focused on the yellow mask that freaked him out the most.
Spencer did an Adams family-style portrait, highlighting his own pirate costume with black and white face paint.
Happy Halloween from Taiwan, but it is good to be home!
Thanks to Tyler and Spencer for keeping up with their drawings while away, and for all the cool pictures of Taiwan! Welcome home, you guys.
Moving now to Massachusetts, here’s a drawing from Diego. Picking up on a theme that has appeared in several of his previous drawings, he is dressing as Frank Zappa for Halloween.
For those of you who don’t know what Frank Zappa looks like, here you go:
If you ask me, the drawing is pretty dead-on. I’m seriously considering growing a tiny square-shaped beard and starting an internationally acclaimed rock band.
And then we have Garcia, who is going to dress as a “kitty cat.”
I love the use of white space, the decision to leave the side of the cat’s face implied. It’s really quite powerful.
And lastly, we have Gina, who is going to dress as herself and hand out candy.
Somebody’s got to do it.
And here’s a drawing from Emily with some thoughts from her mom:
Emily completed this drawing Sunday morning, but I didn’t attempt to transcribe the story until just now. As you can see by the lengthy passage on the drawing, what appeared to be a straightforward scribblefest turned out to be representing a very detailed and complicated story. I wrote down what she was saying as accurately and quickly as possible, but quickly ran out of room on the drawing. I proceeded to take the photo and upload it, while she was still continuing the story. In fact, as I write this, she is still spinning the tale. But I think I captured the gist of it.
But wait, there’s more:
Emily just came over to add (after about seven or eight minutes of elapsed storytelling), “While I was walking in my costume to have tea, I tripped over my chair when I went to get the plates. And when I colored black on my costume and I looked in the mirror, it didn’t look like Rapunzel anymore. I got stains on it and my mom said, ‘No, no, no!’ Then I put a little bit more and my mom said in her scary, bad voice, ‘You don’t go now.’ That’s how she yelled.”
Thanks for the great drawing, Emily. Thanks, Cathy, for the play-by-play.
Happy Halloween, everyone! Have fun, if you can. It’s looking fairly likely that we here in Chestertown might have to take a rain check on Halloween this year.