Our Artist and His Methods

A few Sundays back Indio and I were doing the usual Sunday routine: listening to music, getting everything out of the front closet, scribbling on Post-it notes...you know, the usual. Out of nowhere Indio went and changed it up on me and stuck a pencil in his mouth and proceeded to continue scribbling on his Post-it. I made a few lame attempts to get him to take it out of his mouth - it seemed like the responsible parent thing to do. Then I worried about stifling his creativity, so I reversed course, took out the camera and tried to discretely tape it.



The following is the result of his new-found method, though I would venture to guess most of this was by hand. My favorite part, which I didn't capture on film, is that he picked up his work and licked it. As a proud momma I'm just going to tell myself that was his way of signing the piece, but based on past history and current circumstance the reality is we have a toddler*.
*Toddlers naturally lick anything and everything - like paper and spilled liquids on the floor. It would amaze you how you have to teach a child how to be less gross.