We had brunch today with several friends at a restaurant on Golden Gate Park. There were 10 adults and 5 children. Annabel sat between me and Brad, the graphic designer for Shopping.com. She had been given a kid's menu and some crayons and was coloring away when Brad offered to collaborate with her on a drawing.
The idea was to draw a face together: First he would draw an eye, then she would draw an eye. He would draw an ear and she would draw an ear and so on. They decided after some discussion that they would each draw half of the nose and mouth.
This is what they came up with. I think it's destined to become a masterpiece of surrealist kids-menu art. I particularly like the way the face seems to be getting caught up in the windmill's air stream.
Here's another of Annabel's recent works. It is entitled "Tinkerbell", in keeping with her fairy obsession.
According to this article on the artistic stages in children's drawing, Annabel is a little ahead of the curve drawing figures well before kindergarten.
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