The Garrick Gallery

2010-05-30T21:47:00.002-04:00

Jillie (13)
Star Burst
Jillie's drawing was chosen to be on display for the school district art show, Art Splash.
We think she did a wonderful job!

2010-03-17T23:36:00.002-04:00

Jackson (5)- mom

This one is special to me. With all of the struggles Jackson has had with low muscle tone, this was a break through. A couple of days ago I showed him how to type "mom" on the computer. Today, he was busy drawing on a piece of paper. Then he asked me for some tape so he could hang it up. As we put it up, I realized what he'd drawn... what he'd WRITTEN. "Mom" over and over again. "Mom" was one of the first words he spoke and now "Mom" is his first written word. So proud of him! So excited for him!

Kobe Writes

2009-04-09T01:30:00.005-04:00

Kobe (7)

This first piece of writing was an answer from a test he took. His teacher typed it up and made it into an overhead transparency so she could show the class an example of a good answer. This happens often actually. I love that this came out of his head- especially the "tip toeing on the crunchy leaves."

2009-04-08T23:06:00.008-04:00

Reagan (10)- Webkinz

Jackson (4)- "Rocket"

Kobe (7)- "A Sad Day"

This is actually a funny picture to us. It's the day the fish died- we'd been waiting a long time for it to die, so it wasn't sad. Also the picture shows my sorry looking mini rose plants that hardly even have any leaves.)

Kobe (7)- Cam Jansen book report on a bag

Kobe (7)- self portrait

Kobe (7)- Angry Pigeon

Jackson (4)- Moon

Kobe (7)- ripped paper Owl

Kobe (7)- Under the Sea

Kobe (7)- Easter Bunny

("They wanted me to draw an Easter Bunny, but I didn't want to so I made it really different and gave it a blue carrot.")

Kobe (7)- Flowers

Jackson (4)- Monster

Jackson (4)- My Whale!

Kobe (7)- Obi- Wan Dog

Kobe (7)- Jackson Pollock style painting

("My teacher said mine was the best in the class!")

A Kobe Creation

2009-01-13T22:56:00.000-05:00

This is a Kobe Creation from July '08 that I neglected to post. We were visiting my parents. Kobe (7) sat down at the table. He spotted some plastic cups and utensils on the table. This is what happened within a few minutes...

He then revisited his work after a trip to a sculpture garden...

The end result.

School Projects: Christmas '08

2009-01-11T12:06:00.001-05:00

By Jackson (4)...

By Kobe (7)...

Notes from the kids... and other fall creations

2008-12-31T16:33:00.000-05:00

Reagan (10)

Kobe (7)

Jillie (12)

Kobe (7)

Reagan (10)

Kobe (7)

Reagan (10)

Jackson (4)

Kobe (7)

Summer Scribbles

2008-10-02T11:17:00.000-04:00

Just some summer scribbles found around the house...

Jillienne (12)

Kobe (7)

Reagan (10)

Father's Day Creations

2008-06-29T17:53:00.000-04:00

Jillie (11) made this in tech class, sculpted the wire herself and everything...even spray painted it at home.

Reagan (10)- coupon book for daddy. The sculpture she made in art class for him didn't survive. Well have to try to glue it together and display later.

Kobe (7)- answers questions about his Dad.

Kobe (7)- clay dish for Dad

Kobe (7)- Mouse pad for Dad made during the NBA playoffs.

Notice the scoreboard says "Bost 9, LAL 14"

2008-06-16T23:50:00.000-04:00

School Projects by Jillie (11 years old)

Art class portfolio cover

Medieval Castle made with friend Annie and some donated supplies from Kobe (his watercolor pencils and toy knights & horses.)

Medieval Castle extra credit project for Social Studies (recieved the full 10 extra credit points)

Rocket built and painted and ready to be shot off in class this week.

Wooden car designed from scratch... sketched design, molded out of clay, cut out of wood, sanded with 3 types of sandpapers, painted, attached wheels, and finally- raced in Tech class.

2008-05-27T13:33:00.000-04:00

Reagan (9)- This was a school assignment. She took a 3x5 card, and cut it in half in some sort of interesting way. Then she taped the 2 straight edges together to create a shape to trace over and over again. After a while she realized that her shape kind of looked like the U.S. map and so she turned the whole paper into a flag.

Reagan (9)- I guess she was practicing signatures in case she works as a character at Disneyland someday!

2008-04-28T01:16:00.000-04:00

Reagan (9)- You are what you eat.

Reagan (9)

2008-04-12T19:24:00.000-04:00

Jillie (11) is learning the art of cooking in her Life and Careers class at school. King Arthur Flour is a company that came to her school, taught the kids to make bread, and then sent them home with all of the ingredients. The kids make 2 loaves at home, one for themselves and one to bring back to school to be donated to a food pantry in town. Jillie decided to make braided loaves. Really brought back memories of Grandma Nellie for me!!

2008-04-10T00:15:00.000-04:00

Jillie's (11) latest submission to The Garrick Gallery- a sketch for art class- "fireplace"

2008-04-08T02:35:00.000-04:00

Ever since Animation Academy at Disneyland, most of Reagan's (9) sketches have been of Disney characters. (You might be able to see that Goofy is on the other side of this paper.)

2008-04-08T02:13:00.000-04:00

Kobe celebrated his 7th birthday at school on Friday ("Firday") :) This is obviously his brownie on a napkin, on his desk. I like how he added his desk name tag- but only a portion of it... Also how is brownie is different shades of brown. To me, that is attention to detail.

2008-04-02T09:37:00.000-04:00

Kobe (6) was very proud of this picture. Everyone in his class did one like this for a class book. He was proud that he drew the bed with the proper perspective. He was the only one that didn't draw the bed from a bird's eye view.
I like the kid who just fell off the bed. :)

2008-03-19T00:20:00.000-04:00

Jackson (3) made this with his speech therapist today. She obviously drew the face but Jackson assembled the ears and told her right where he wanted those ears to go. So he's a bit of a crooked bunny. Anyway, something to be excited about is his coloring around the face. He finally has enough fine motor control that he's started drawing circles. He also knew 4 colors- blue, yellow, red, green. YEA!

2008-03-18T22:28:00.000-04:00

Reagan (9)- two art class projects

Reagan (9)- two "art club" projects

Kobe's (6) Mickey Mouse (with 3-D hat)

2008-03-17T00:35:00.000-04:00

Jillie (11) - Mona Lisa Halloween costume idea (submission to American Girl magazine)

Kobe (6) Nauvoo Temple Sun Stone (submission to The Friend magazine)