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Showing posts with label Olympians. Show all posts
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Friday, February 7, 2014

Fluffy Shares Strawberries with Cyclops


Ansel was very impressed with George O'Connor's interpretation of the Cyclopes.  (And here we are talking about the sons of Uranus and Gaia, the brothers of the Titans, and not Polyphemus, the sort of one eyed guy who appears in recent and not so recent movies.  And the plural of Cyclops is Cyclopes...just don't want you to think that I can't use Wikipedia)

Based on my five minute perusal of the Google image results for "cyclops," I can observe that it seems to have always been a challenge to figure out how to locate that one eye in the context of the human face.  It definitely does not work well with a nose or eyebrows.  I think Mr. O'Connor's solution of turning the whole head into an eye- and removing the neck as well- is a very elegant answer to the age old Cyclops design problem.

...And they have claws, and what 7 year old boy does not love a thing with claws?  There were strawberries packed in the lunch, so I thought perhaps we should put the claws to good use.

I included Fluffy because it seems that no napkin is not improved by the addition of a hamster. 


Thursday, February 6, 2014

Fluffy the Hamster with Zeus


Fluffy, first grade hamster wears her welding goggles while watching Zeus demonstrate his skill with lightning.

Having finished reading George O'Connor's "Poseidon: Earth Shaker," we moved on to his "Zeus: King of the Gods."

The aftermath of the infestation of our kids' hair a couple of days ago has been extremely time consuming...the laundry alone has been monumental... so this was another very quick sketch.

Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Fluffy Visits Poseidon


We've been reading "Poseidon: Earth Shaker" by George O'Connor.  While we have been through most of the Greek myths before, Ansel was very interested this time around...particular the bit about how the Minotaur was conceived.  I am really hoping that he is not regaling the other first graders at lunch today with tales of beastiality.

Ansel asked for a George O'Connor style god of the sea today, minus the facial hair, which seemed to trouble him.

I added Fluffy to make the image a little less...sexy....