Masterpieces - Part 1

Just wanted to show off some of the mokongs' masterpieces. They've been having informal art classes with Papa and just started painting last week. The boys play art director by telling Papa what they want him to draw and where. They then put their paintbrushes and markers to work, and....voila!















By Hadrien














By Baz














By Baz

Artwork and Floor Plans

Seeing my friend's 5 year old triplets confidently scribble away turtles, dinosaurs, fruits, etc, I am reminded that each kid is different. Not only do they have varied interests and talents, but they also develop the same talents and interests at different paces. I put it down not only to genetics but, perhaps more importantly, also conditioning. On both sides, the kids have aunts and uncles and grandfathers who can draw and/or paint quite well. So they must have it in them to churn out awe-inspiring artwork from time to time. But since Raffy and I don't really draw, or paint, or sculpt... I can't really expect a masterpiece, can I?

Here are the kids drawings:

Hadrien actually had several of these lined up to form a mat (so he says!). When I asked him to choose only 1 that I would post on Tootay, he said "There's many artwork. Choose as many as you want!" It's hard to believe how much air of authority he can muster - and he's only 3!


As for Baz, he's not into drawings and artwork. For a while, he was quite fascinated with calendars. Lately, he's been pouring over floor plans and renderings so I wasn't surprised to find him drawing his versions of our hopefully future house :)

Architect or Astronaut?

He hasn't changed his mind about being an astronaut yet but Baz is sure into building. Whenever he sees models of buildings/condos on display in malls, he doesn't miss running towards it to ask what the different parts are made of.

Yesterday, "Architect Denise" lent us a model based on a preliminary schematic design we were exploring. Baz called it "very well made" and went about looking at each room of the house. He wanted to learn how to make one. He chose his bedroom, put the model next to the floor plans and I think began to understand how to read the plans.

A couple of pictures of mostly Baz's structures -










Baz usually works with the natural-colored wood blocks while Hadrien prefers the plastic and colored blocks. They both know to respect each other's creations :) Although countless fights and building toppling have erupted if one was not careful.

(Don't) pick up (those) sticks!

Here's what Baz did with a few popsicle sticks.

He sure looks proud of his masterpiece :) I checked - no one helped him :)

Jean-Michel BAZquiat

Again, blame it on over-protectiveness, we allowed Baz to use pencils, pens and even markers only when we saw how adept his classmates were with them. We were afraid that he would stumble and stab himself while holding a sharp pen/pencil the right side up. So, it was just crayons for Baz for quite a long time.

This didn't stunt Baz's creative side though as you can see here. Look closely and you'll see that he actually scrawled "Lucas Sebastian Khan" rendered ala Jean-Michel Basquiat. That's my boy!

By the way, to see more of our pictures taken during our Antipolo road trip, click here.