Book & Movie Magic

So here's some book and movie magic. Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak! My sketch of Russell from the movie Up! The Lorax by Dr. Suess. Here's a drawing of my dream-I'm a Disney Pixar artist and they actually like what I drew. Then 20th Century Fox decides to make a movie out of my stories.

School Pets

I made these drawings of some of our school pets: a bird I remember from kindergarten with Miss Morgan, Joy the Lizard from Miss Crystal's class and the ultimate pet Shakespeare who belongs to Ms. Merrill and her fourth graders. I get to bring Shakespeare home and like to read chapter books to him. His favorite food is basil so we grow it in our garden and spoil him.

Re-inventing the mysteries of Hugo Cabret

Mom and I are huge fans of Brian Selznick and I made these 2 drawings about his first book. I've also read Wonderstruck and I can't wait for number 3. I love the automaton because it looks cool and can draw the man in the moon with the rocket in it's eye. I wanted you to see it so here it is.
I wish I had an automaton.

My Christmas in Mexico

This photo is of me wearing my Santa hat.

I helped put up our Christmas tree this year and hung the ornaments.

We saw a hot air balloon floating over our town on Christmas Day. Below is a giant gingerbread house.

Here are the sheep and goats and donkeys at the manger in our town square-the zocalo.

This kid is trying to pet them.

Here is my mom and I pretending we are part of this painting.

Here I am walking down the streets with my Dad.

Here we are drinking orange juice from the same cup.

I'm climbing on top of a big stone ball in Parque Juarez.

...and here I am in my pool.






















This is me in an empty swimming pool!

...and here's a picture of me and my friend Olly.

I'm eating breakfast on Christmas Day at Posada Corazon.

A man played a harp.

This is me and my mom standing in front of an old door.






















This picture is for my friend Charlotte who loves horses.

It's of Gitano.

Here's a picture of more horses at night for Charlotte.

A dream about meeting John Lassiter at Pixar

November Drawings

This big guy was mean to a little dragon and his foot got burnt.
It never pays to be a bully.

These are the some of the pets we have at our school.
Shakespeare-the guinea pig, Joy-the lizard and Morgan the parakeet.

Mighty Zeus playing with his thunderbolts.

Here are two horses reacting to the invention of the horseless carriage. They don't look happy to me.

I'm a huge fan of angry birds.

I love the monsters and creatures in Greek Mythology. Here's a harpie-one of the winged creatures that taunted Phineas.
Pictured below is Neptune with his trident and pet dolphin.

There's no place like an adventure

In 2nd grade I wrote and illustrated a story called there's no place like an adventure. Now I am 9 years old and had a REAL, really big one. These photos tell the story of an exciting day working with my family and friends to share our love of Greek Mythology with kids in Germany. I am so lucky to have a super school, cool art teacher Miss Allison Bell and great friends who are really good artists too.

The footage is going to be part of an amazing television show on The German Child Channel. The narrator Ben takes kids on an adventure to uncover the magic of Greek myths and they travel to South Africa, Germany, Greece and San Diego! Melanie Weiss who worked for a film production company in Germany saw my drawings here on my blog and asked to see more of my work. When I made my movie The Quest for a school project it was so much work but really fun. I learned so much more about making a real video from my new friends Mark Nelson and J.P. McLean and their crew. Did I tell you it was hard work but really fun. I got up at 6am and we worked all day to get all the shots we needed.

In this scene, I am drawing at my art desk upstairs and that's Mark, J.P. and the guy with the microphone Scott helping me get started. Mariel also helped with the lighting and Leslie helped organize everything for the shoot. It takes a team of people to get it done.

Here I am downstairs working in my Dad's art studio as they wanted me to show them how I like to paint on wood.

When we were upstairs in my room Mark let me touch his big camera and I got to move the handle. In this scene I was showing them my blog and the movie I made about Jason and the Argonauts.

Here's a super fun part at our school The San Diego Cooperative Charter School with our very wonderful teacher Miss Bell. We did scratchboard but it was a very special kind where the image was white. There were little shells glued all over the frames and together with my friends we drew Greek ships. I have to thank Alexis, Charlotte, Esther, Paige and Ty for coming to class on a Saturday for the workshop. They are such incredible artists and good friends to help me show the kids in Germany what our school is like. I was really proud of my friends and happy to see their artwork that was beautiful.

So I have to tell you that by now I was getting tired because making a video is hard work. We went to the Star of India to film the boats and I felt so lucky to hear this musician playing a steel drum. It did not come from Jamaica but from Berne, Switzerland. It had this very relaxing sound that was just what I needed to keep my energy going.

The last part of the shoot was at Coronado Beach and my best friend Charlotte came along. We drew pictures in the sand-Charlotte drew a horse [because she is really good with horses and even rides them every week]. We played in the ocean and climbed rocks and even though it looks like it is summer it is really the end of November in San Diego.

Here is one of the final scenes from our shoot when I gave a special clue to the host of the show-Ben. I can't tell you what it is because it needs to be a secret till the show comes on German television. I gave my clue sitting up on the rocks in front of the Hotel Del Coronado - my favorite place to watch the sunset.

That's a wrap!