CarrollBlog 1.5
An artist friend and his family are in Vienna for the week visiting. They were over for dinner last night and were talking about the things they'd seen and enjoyed so far while here. At their mother's urging, the two children got out notebooks and showed us what they contained. It turns out that whenever the family visits a new place, all of them buy new sketchbooks there and whenever they see something they like or want to remember, they draw it. As a result, trips to museums or cafes sometimes take hours. The children are 8 and 12 but their sketchbooks are full of sophisticated striking things. Interesting characters they glimpsed on the street, those sexy Viennese sphinx statues with big breasts and wings on their back, their own versions of Egon Schiele portraits. So much better than a photo album. How wonderful it will be when these kids have grown up and look at these books, their drawings, a personal record in their own hand of what life looked like at eight.