Alyosha's Art Work

Alyosha has been practicing his drawing with the "I Can Draw" books and I recently found a jackpot of them at the thrift store for .49 cents--which is great when they are usually $5 or more each. Here are some of his drawings that we sent to his pen pals around the world--some haven't arrived to the recipients yet, so even though you see it online, it can still be a surprise to you if you get it in the mail. This first one was for Alyosha's friend Jacob, who lives in Houston with Justin and Stephanie and little sister. It is Jacob and Alyosha standing under the sky on the grass. Their hair is standing straight up because they haven't had a hair cut in a long time and the wind blew it straight up.

The Sea Dragon is from one of his new drawing books. Lines up are the spikes, and the big round circle is the open mouth with lots of teeth. The black line/dot on the right side of the sea dragon is his eye. Alyosha did this, along with the letters totally himself.

This one is an underwater scene. The Scuba Diver is Alyosha when he is grown up. He is searching for lost treasure under the ocean. I did a pencil drawing of the scuba diver, then Alyosha traced it and did the rest. The fish swimming on the left side of the page is a Siamese fighting fish, like the one we have in our aquarium named StopN'Go--Alyosha did that one totally himself. This fish swimming in the picture is also named StopN'Go.

This drawing has a lot of action going on in it. There is a boat with an arrow on the sail that describes which way the bot is sailing. There are two passengers on the boat and the spiky wheel at the front is the 'rule' (steering wheel in Russian). The boat is about to run into the erupting volcano, and the two passengers are at the back of the boat so they don't get burned up by the exploding lava. Under the ocean there is a blue octopus swimming beside his friend the squid. The squid was going to save the octopus but the octopus squirted his black ink first to protect himself and the squid from the dangerous shark that is in the middle of the ocean above the starfish. Alyosha drew this scene almost totally himself, I just gave him the outline of the boat. But the scenario was totally his, as well as the descriptions I have here!

The artist.