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August 10, 2019

This is the end of the “Two Minutes A Day” blog… at least for now.  

This started back on January 1, 2016, when my son Wesley was 6 years old.  The challenge was to make a drawing every day.  The only rule was that he had to spend at least two minutes on it.   

At first it was hard coming up with new ideas what to draw (yes, even for two minutes), and there were occasions when the streak almost ended, but he persevered and succeeded with flying colors. For 500 days straight days he made something and he drew more than he would have otherwise.  Along the way he started up a weekly two hour art class on Saturdays.  

About four months into the project this Tumblr blog started.  For a while, everything got posted, and over time I guess you could say it has been sporadic, averaging about one post a week over the past year and a half.

But even though I have been inconsistent with the blog entries, Wesley has kept up with the art.  While he hasn’t done a drawing or made something every single day, he’s done so on most days.  There is a white board in the kitchen where I’ve tallied up how often he makes something.  In the 1308 days between 01/01/2016 and 07/31/2019, he made something in 1231 of them.  And what started out as a two minute a day challenge is now a thirty minute routine on most days.  

Wesley turned 10 a week ago and he’s still making stuff.  I am still saving a lot of it and will probably be posting stuff in one form another before too long.  When his creations resurfaces, it might not be on Tumblr and it definitely won’t be of the “two minutes a day” variety.  

Thanks for visiting and stay turned…

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Seeky Bob’s Adventures, issue no 1.  The plan is an issue a month.  (07/2019)

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Wesley’’s entries in to the 2019 Renton Art Show  (July 26 to July 28, 2019).  “July Fourth” (colored pencil), and  “Mom,” (acrylic). 

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Some of Wesley’s art from third grade.  They had an art class once a month.  I think my favorite one is of the “W.”  They had to make a picture using the first letter of their first name.  After all the doodling he only had time to finish coloring in the letter.  He graduated from third grade June 21, 2019. 

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Wesley did a portrait at school for Mother’s Day and made a card for her birthday this year.

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Taking a break from drawing, to make some papertoy monsters!

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Recently, Wesley colored in some of his creatures. He doesn’t like signing his name very much, so he has started putting the creature logo (pictures 3 thru 5) on some of his artwork. 

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After reading most the free comic books that we both gathered, Wesley picked out his favorite covers to put on a three sided poster board.  Then we both cut out pictures from some of the comic books to put on the back side to make three collages.  Only the third collage had a theme -- scary pictures.  (May 2019)  

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May 4, 2019:  Destiny City Comics (Tacoma, WA) first time; Stargazer Comics (Tacoma) first time; Olympia Cards and Comics (Olympia); Danger Room Comics (Olympia) first time; Atomic Comics (Tacoma).  By the time we got back to Federal Way, the local comic book store was closed!  

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A collection of cats. 

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Monster Wars, Food Wars, and the Ice/Fire War.

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Inspired by Bendy and a love of cephalopods? 

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April 14, 2019: twominutesaday turned 3 today!  Way to go Wesley!

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I think these are probably Wesley’s first steampunk drawings. (04/2019)

steampunk, almost daily art, kids art, drawing

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This year’s Doodle For Google entry.  “When I grow up I hope there will be real monsters for kids like me.” (03/2019)

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(03/14/2019) Wesley memorized 214 numbers of PI!  He also got the most in two minutes at his school, won a pie, and got to throw one at teacher too.  Check out the video here: https://vimeo.com/324689261

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Wesley entered a drawing contest for the Neuroscience For Kids website.  Third to fifth graders had to make a drawing that answered the question: “I keep my brain healthy by…”  There were 300+ entries.  The website is run by a professor from the University of Washington  (02/2019)