Ramon and Calaveras

Yo.

I saved another tiny scrap from young Ramon:

He loves to draw this figure and does it again and again with minor differences. The pencil sketch is about the size of a postage stamp. I like it.

I personally have been up to my old tricks making papier mache calavera masks:

Both of these masks are adult sized and wired to be used as wall decorations, though they could be worn, of course.

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Goi Boy

Hello,

I have spent the first two weeks of the new school year as a substitute sixth grade teacher. The pay is good and it is something I like to do but I haven't had time to blog.

There was a 12 year-old student in one of my classes who must have been born with a pencil in his hand. His name was Ramon--bilingual English and Spanish as so many of the kids around here are.

Ramon would dash through his classwork as quickly as he could so he could get down to his real work--pencil sketching!

He carried a separate notebook for sketching and several ready pencils. He is simply a born artist.

The regular teacher is coming tomorrow to takeover the class so I said goodbye last Friday. As he left the classroom Ramon handed me a farewell sketch which I will show you here. He has a very unusual style which as rather Picassoesque and he only uses pencil--he is not at all interested in color at this time.

Aren't people of all ages interesting?

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