Andre's Battleship

After watching the movie Battleship, my kids just can't get over it. It was the talk of the table for sometime. Prior to this, they were watching Scoobydoo and some ghost ship and ugly pirates in it. And so Andre, my 7-year old son who is immensely addicted to drawing anything that sticks into his mind - brought out his sketch pad and came out with this nice drawings. His dad calls him an architect in the making. Let me see what you think. Below are photos of his drawings of the USS Missouri in various angles. The fourth one is the same ship made up of blocks.

Busy with blocks

If there is any other thing Andre's busy with aside from sketching - it's building blocks -even his Jenga blocks are not being used for what it's meant for coz he likes to build things - a lot! He's got some nice, sometimes unbelievable, creations. I have no idea how he came up with these things in his mind because whenever he does them - he doesn't have any object in front of him to imitate. It must be there already in his mind - the picture of the objects he's building. The one above is a pirate ship. And owing to his addiction of Harry Potter, the train below is his version of the Hogwarts Express. This one below is, according to him, the Empire State Building inspired by Percy Jackson. Not bad huh?
This one below is an earlier version of pirate ship, because he liked Peter Pan.
And last but not the least - here's Andre's Ron Weasley's house in Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince.

Andre's sketches

Andre has been busy again recently with his sketches. I'd like to share some of them. Pardon the messy sketches, he has a habit of sketching many stuffs in one small page making it difficult for me to crop things to separate one from the other. The one above is the skyline of Paris, only the Eiffel Tower is smaller relative to other nearby structures. You would notice this if you compare it with the actual Paris skyline photo below (photo owner here).

This one below looks like a truck carrying a boat? (see top part), silly me. Next to this is well, a boat, that looks rather incomplete/unfinished. But I like the angle of this sketch.


Now here's a messy Lightning Mcqueen. One thing about Andre's sketching is that he rarely used a pencil, always a ballpoint - so that explains the ruggedness of his drawings, and without colors. This is perhaps his own style of drawing, that - I respect and admire.

This one below - he told me, is the house in the movie Signs (Mel Gibson) with the alien spaceships looming ahead. Brilliant. Then there is Astroboy, one of his favorite movies.


This finale is Andre's ever favorite subject, the house of Mr. Fredricksen in UP the movie. It is also my most favorite among his artworks - because even if it is very tiny, no more than 3 inches in length, it has great details in it. Check out Andre's other art works on this movie.

Andre is my younger son. He's now 6 years old. He loves sketching very much, among his other favorite drawing subjects are Harry Potter's Hogwarts School, Ron's house, Hogwarts Express. 'Gotta dig up those and put them all up in here. This is all for now.

Growing Up

'Remember my post about the movie Up? Well, my younger son is actually not over it yet and his fondness seems to be growing as he himself grows up. He drew Mr. Fredricksen's house with the balloons on it in many pages of his sketch pads over and over again in different angles, different scenes. He was only 4 when the movie came out, now he's 6 and he still loves it. He has made himself lots of versions out of Lego, be it simple or 3D, used blocks too, and improvised with small balls of styrofoam for the balloons.

The one he drew above is the movie cover while the one below is a scene on top of the plateau where the Paradise Falls is found. Like his Kuya Sean, Andre is really talented. I couldn't be more proud. Take a look.

Drawn from below version

The midget out of Lego or the floor version out of Megablocks.

The 3D version he made in 2009.

A grander version he made just recently mixing Lego with styro balls.

And a whole bunch of random sketches.

Kids' Artworks Captured

The only way to make your kids' artworks- paintings, sketches, drawings, last a lifetime is by creating soft copies of them, photographing them, so even when they'll get torn or lost or thrown in the trash in the future, which is very likely, you will still have a copy. They also make great additions to your scrapbooks and photo albums.

Make sure to load them up to the archive of your kids' mementos - photos and videos. And don't forget to keep a back-up. In this day and age, one should always produce a back-up, nothing is certain coz it's almost impossible to make our computer crash-proof.And we don't want to regret losing fun memories because of some technical failures.

But still, I suggest that we don't forget to keep the originals in some place safe. The kids would really love to see these when they grow up and they would thank us parents for keeping their works.

Above: Artworks of my kids: Andre, 4 and Sean, 8

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Up the Movie

 

Credits to the owner.

I would like to recommend you to watch Up, a heartwarming comedy-adventure film for the family. It is about Mr. Frederickson and his ultimate dream adventure coming into reality. That dream he shared with the love of his life, his wife Ellie, is to get to South America. With Ellie gone, he pursued that dream and he did it by tying balloons to his house and flew away. My kids loved it and I enjoyed it immensely. I was touched by how Mr. Frederickson loved his wife so much and how the couple really took care of each other and shared their dreams together. Russel, the 8-year old wilderness explorer is so funny and he himself was an adventure to Mr. Frederickson. My 4-year old son was so in to the Up movie, he made the Lego figure below.

 

My Andre's rendition of Up.