Last Friday, Tilly asked you guys to draw what was happening inside of vegetables:
Find a pumpkin, or a pepper, or a pineapple, or some form of vegetation that you can smash, or just open up. Look inside! What’s in there? If you don’t see any funny little people like I saw, maybe they are just too small to see. What would they look like if you could see them? What would they be doing? Draw what you see happening, or what you think you can’t see happening on the inside of a fruit or vegetable. Maybe you can use some of the juice to paint with.
I was a little worried that this prompt would be too much of a challenge, but boy was I wrong. We’ll start with a series of drawings from Massachusetts (and a series of descriptions from our friend Gina:
Diego: There is a local concert venue in Albany, NY called the Egg, so he thought it would be funny to have two rock legends playing the Pumpkin. I have absolutely no idea why they were accompanied by an I-Pad.
Garcia: He made various pumpkins, but one pumpkin has a Pumpkin Princess in it. He says, “the Pumpkin Princess is the protector of the Pumpkins”.
Emma (Garcia’s playdate this afternoon): She made 7 pumpkins (1 is empty, 1 has seeds, 4 have spider webs, and 1 has a Rapunzel-like princess waiting to escape).
Gina: When I read the assignment I wondered what a pumpkin brain would look like … of course it would be made of candy corn, because candy corn rates high on the spectrum of nasty candies (very close to circus peanuts).
Michael: He was going for the play on words since a pumpkin is a gourd … Hence the creature residing in the pumpkin is named Gourdon.
And now, from Spencer and Tyler, who are still in Taiwan for a few more days.
Here’s the report from their mom, Eunice:
5 minutes before our train arrives in Hualien, Spencer finished his drawing of 3 baby slugs having a birthday party in the upstairs of a pumpkin. Their bed is downstairs in case they need a nap!
And here is a photo of a surprisingly tasty hot lunch that was served out of a cute box with a picture of the train on it.
And the view out our window of fog spilling over the mountain.
There’s a gorgeous beach on the other side which you can see in this photo of Spencer drawing.
Of course, whenever Spencer draws, his brother Tyler does, too.
Says Eunice: The green guys are adults swinging like monkeys inside broccoli. The orange guys are kids, also swinging like monkeys, inside a peach. The two banana boats, broccoli, and peach are all floating on a blue sea.
These guys make drawing look so fun.
Emily from Tulsa sends us the following drawing, with some thoughts from her mom, Cathy:
This week’s contribution is a large scale (18″x26″) painting of a smashed apple. The people inside the apple (which she refused to identify in the painting) are “going out to find their lost toys and going to the scissors cut which is a place for little people where there’s toys.” Sounds like some sort of toy bar or something if you ask me, but be assured she did not.
Calli’s mom Jessica sends us two drawings, one without annotations:
And another one with. Here are the corresponding notes:
Calli was very taken with Tilly’s pumpkin full of people (Maybe because we grew pumpkins in our garden this year and none of them contained people. Maybe next year.) and also impressed with Alden’s painting, so this week she painted a pumpkin. Her picture is a pumpkin with people in it. The people are making pumpkins. There is a pretend pumpkin (A) and there are people making more pumpkins (B). At first the people were a boy and a girl, and later were Mommy & Calli. One is drawing “very very giant pumpkins” and the other is cutting the pumpkins with scissors. The dark brown area at the bottom ( C ) is the floor and the dark brown area at the top (D) is the roof. It is “a silly roof.” Then she pointed to one line (E) and said “This is paint. Somebody needs to tell me about the paint.” She made it sound like someone in the family had come by and sabotaged her painting by adding this line, because it was clearly out of place.
And now from Joe, whose mom Yarwen tells us that:
Inside the grapes, there are the sun, some colorful dots and stripes, a few roller coasters, a chair, a pumpkin…, etc. Inside the big pumpkin, there are people making crafts. Inside the small pumpkin, just a zombi.
Before we go, we want to share this incredible drawing by illustrator Victo Ngai. While you have been thinking about the worlds inside of vegetables, Victo has been imagining the worlds inside of frogs!
As a professional illustrator, Victo gets paid (real money!) to draw pictures for cool clients like the New York Times and McDonalds. Maybe someday one of you will be an illustrator too!
Thanks, everyone, for another amazing week of drawing stuff. We’ll have another prompt for you on Friday!