Planets, Stars, Fantastical Gender Bending: A Sampling of Art by Nat

Nat does art every day at school.  For a while it was all markers, but these days, there's been a lot of paint.  Thought I'd share.

First up, we have standard Nat style, which always includes both ground (a horizontal slash across the bottom) and a sun (here, it is purple, found in the top right-hand corner).  This picture also includes, according to Nat, lots of stars and planets:

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Next, we enter the self-portrait genre.  Here you can see that Nat is wearing sunglasses, and no wonder, since the sun in this case, is bright yellow.  There's no ground here, but there is an odd third appendage there at the bottom of the person.  When asked, Nat explained that the third appendage is a penis, because "in this picture, I am pretending to be a boy."  Well okay, then.

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Most days, Selina stays home with either a mom or a baby sitter while Nat gets dropped at school, but last week, Selina came along to drop off.  Apparently, Nat thought about her sister all day, because she burst out of the classroom at pickup, and barreled into Selina, handing her all the papers she had done that day.  Almost all of them had Selina's name on them, but I liked this one the best.  If I was Selina, I'd make up some personal stationery featuring this picture:

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4 Responses to Planets, Stars, Fantastical Gender Bending: A Sampling of Art by Nat

  1. I love these pictures! And Sam does that at school too- just has days when he’s clearly thinking of his sister and comes home with all of his projects labeled with her name. “I made these for YOU!” he says. And then she has to be prodded a bit to accept them graciously!

  2. Aww! Isnt sibling love the BEST?

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