Friday, April 20, 2012

drawing at the concert

Jo goes to a classical concert with me (Day: I HATE classical music) and spends the evening merrily drawing away in the dark on a notebook, copying the pictures from the very nice programme as she listens to some of the top hits from the classical oeuvre.

(Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture, Mendelssohn’s Overture to a Midsummer Night’s Dream, Bizet’s Carmen and Grieg’s Peer Gynt).

I see her pictures and I try not to giggle in the dark.

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This one of the lady in the blue dress really made me crack up.

And I was very sorry when she saw my constipated face and whispered: But my drawing is not NICE, mummy!

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Although she doesn't enjoy classical music either (none of them do), and it looks like I will be going for all these classical adventures solo as I get older and they live their own lives (KK is no fan), she is the nicest one to bring for concerts right now because she is twitch-free.

Lovely little Jo.

5 comments:

Karmeleon said...

Twitch free? Lol. How old is Jo? I didn't dare bring my youngest to watch his beloved gor-gor perform with sn. I'm still wondering if we should for his brother’s school string concert next month

KK said...

yes she sits very still, Buddha like. Day and lu can't stop twitching. Jo is 6.

U can just try to bring him! Worst case one adult takes him out. Bring stuff to occupy him in the dark...

June said...

Jo's drawings are very nice! I know they're copies, but she's added expression and personality (that they did not have in the original) to them.

Sher said...

u think? :)

if she could, she'd put a transparency of a grid over it and draw it out on another grid, box by box.

she's done it b4. she's v serious about copying EXACTLY the same way although its her interpretations which move me (to laugh).

Karmeleon said...

6 and 3 very big difference. haha. I know he has no problem with those 1 hour concerts.