Ben the Artist

"I'm a artist," said Ben, age four, as I drove home from taking the kids to school. He went on to explain that an artist is someone who draws well. He said he's my artist. I suppose that is because I always rave about his drawings, which I think are really cute. Here's one of his latest samples. It's a picture of me, on a fairly good hair day, with more than ample belly buttons.



Later on, we discovered that his artistic abilities carried over to sculpture. He made a couple of really cute blue monsters from play dough today.


Here's his first monster, a happy one from the look on its face. After I took pictures, he added fingers and toes!



Here Ben is, posing with his first monster.




And here is the second blue monster. This one has a mustache and all his fingers and toes. Maybe I'm biased, but I think his artwork is really cute and quite sophisticated for his age.