Could you guess that my almost five year old is suggesting what I draw? And does anyone have an idea how I might go about protecting the surface from accidental kiddo damage? I’d like to put together a little book of the dinosaur scratchies for my son when we’re all done, but I suspect he’d have them unrecognizable in no time…

Made timely, posted late.

Number 9 is a clay eagle thingie made at the Hudson River Eagle Fest with my son Mikro’s assistance.

Thing # 10 is a sort of found image. It’s the carboard side of an amazon box that had a really cool glue splotch, colored with caran d’ache crayons. The colors are a little off due to the flash, but you get the idea. At some point, when I can fight my way into my studio and excavate through the strata of clutter burying my lino carving stuff, I’d like to carve a stamp of this, or maybe make a monoprint…

Day 11 resulted in a bit of scratch board silliness- a frog, and at Mikro’s behest, a stegosaurus…