Ian16575's Comments (26)

Dear Ian, I know this art has a magnificent story behind it: pigs, "fortnight", flags and your initials. The combination of the colors you chose are my favorites! If you get a chance would you please text me the story behind the symbols you used? I'm especially interested in "fortnight" and what it means to you. So much love. Grandma Kelly

Dear Ian, I loved this art so much I just ordered a garden flag for our front yard! I'll take a picture of it when we put it in the garden. You managed to create a beautifully whimsical portrait of a windy spring day. My favorite part of the picture is the tiny seed blowing in the wind. Thank you Ian. I'm making a wish for you right now! Grandma Kelly.

Hey Ian! Do you know how hard it would be to frost a "wave cake" like this art piece depicts? I am so impressed by the color arrangement and where your imagination took you to come up with the wave layers. You always think out of the box and when I see your art, I do too. Thank you for this delicious art. I am interested in the bagel as well. The topping is green. What type of cream cheese is it? And the parfait cups are luscious. I want the one with the cherry on top. Oh, wait!!! They all have a cherries on top. You do good work, and good in the world, and I adore you. Grandma

Ian, this piece is incredible. I am not sure if you had a certain animal in mind when you made this art, but it strikes me strongly as a reptile; a large one. I don't get the impression it is angry or hunting. It's eye is very calm and knowing. I have to decide whether I want a tile or a coffee cup. I love this guy so much! Thank you for your talent. I love you.

I didn't see this until just now! It is magical! The sprinkling of white on the black frame brings the snow alive and the various shads of blue and purple are lovely. Great job on this one Ian!

Ian, this is a beautiful piece of art! I loved that you included the word, calm, and RBS for Race Brook School on the drum. It made your art feel very personal.

Ian, I was so surprised the the word, "Calm" was in this piece of art. I would not have been surprised if you had the words "vibrant", "electric", "amazing" in it because those are the words I think of when I think of you. I'm so pleased you found room for "calm" in your year! I love that you included Race Brook School embellished on the drum and it's obvious this is a music-based piece. The partial blue guitar is my favorite because one of my favorite books is by Maxine Greene and it's titled Refections on a Blue Guitar! This is a lovely piece. It takes me through memories of sounds and songs. You are a very talented young man. Most of all you did not just do the minimum on this piece. You gave it your all and I love it! (But not as much as you Ian).

Dear Ian, I've been looking at this piece for a week. There is so much to ponder about it. I see crops of every kind but what you decided to do when you made crops from the sun, people and animals, just touched my heart. I realize from looking closely at your art that all things come from the earth except the sun, but the sun in the crops seems to be a reflection of the larger sun in the sky, warming the ground and every living thing. I think this is brilliant art Ian. It's going to be my favorite coffee cup of all time (besides the cup your mom made me when she was 7. It has orange chickens on it!) I love you and I admire you.

Ian, this farm landscape is amazing! It reminds me of one of my favorite books called Seed Folks. It's about people in the it into a beautiful garden that feeds everyone on the block. Your garden is certainly most beautiful, but the important thing is, it gave me a memory of an important event. You always seem to stir my thinkings Ian. I love you for that and I especially respect you for that! Keep it up. I love you snow much!!!

Oh Boy Ian! I am craving mini marshmallows right now!!! Can I just choose what I want in each container rather than guess? OK, the Blue cup (love the tall textured cup with a small finger holder) is hot chocolate. I chose this because of the orange, autumn background. Next to it is ROOT BEER SODA! Woop woop, except I've never put marshmallows in mine before. I'm going to try that tomorrow. The beautifully colored cone can only contain ice cream so let's go with Chocolate Marshmallow Moose Morsels. Finally, the yellow container looks like me in the morning when I am holding my sore back and limping to the coffee pot so I think it is hot tea that is so hot is has one ice cube in it to cool it off. Honestly Ian, I had so much fun looking at this piece of art. You make me so happy with your creativity and passion for all things. I love you. Grandma Kelly

Oh Boy Ian! I am so interested in what you were seeing in your brain when you made this art! Here is what I see: I see a very symmetrical pumpkin, which is my favorite kind of pumpkin. I think, when pumpkin growers try to grow distorted pumpkins they limit a pumpkin's ability to be whatever they want to be. I think your art proves me right because I'm looking at what you designed instead of a lumpy, sideways pumpkin. Anyway, I thought the second, third, fourth and fifth panels were the basic shapes I've used over many years to carve the mouths of my Halloween pumpkins: teeth, fangs, and "GRRR! mouths". The first panel delights me if I'm right...is it candy? Is it filled with candy corn, suckers and round candies? If so, you just made Halloween a delicious night rather than a scary night, which is what I think it should be. The last thing I noticed was panel five. All of the other panels are random in the order you used colors but the last panel has a regular sequence: orange, yellow, blue, green, purple, red...I love this. It is one of the best pumpkins I have ever seen and I'm not kidding because you know, your Grandma's birthday. I KNOW PUMPKINS. I'm keeping this one close. Bravo Ian. I love you to the pumpkin patch and back.

Dear Ian, once again sending congratulations on this beautiful piece of art. It resembles a sculpture really because it has so much dimension. I think you drew this hand palm up. Am I correct? I held my left arm up both ways but I can't be sure. I have three questions: What caused you to draw the pinky farther apart than the other fingers? What does the complicated circle below the ring finger symbolize? How about the yellow strip with black dots? I know the answer to this question: It the hand happy? This is a gloriously happy hand! I want to hold it in mine. You are so talented Ian. I love you, Grandma Kelly.

Ian, I thought a dot was just a dot; a small imprint on white paper, but you have created a palette of GALACTIC DOTS! There is so much movement in this piece my eyes keep jumping to and fro! Dots extending dots, dots with palettes of color, the sun as a dot?! That is just genius Ian! Swirling dots, dot rings, dots with rays, well I don't know what else to say...Your dots are dancing and prancing and romancing my eyes!!! Congratulations on this festival of color and movement! All my love. Grandma Kelly

Ian, I had to look at this art for a long time to discover the important details. I thought it could be sunrise or sunset over the water because those are the two times when our sun shoots a variety of colors over our world. I am pretty sure from your colors in the sky, the number of birds in the sky who are active, and the bright, light colors on the water, that this is morning. You are so right Ian! Our sun shows us a most beautiful palette of colors and then gives them to us twice by reflections in the water. I think you are a tremendous artist. I couldn't be more proud of you.

Ian, are those shark fins I see? Sneaky sharks hiding in the waves!

Wow Ian: I love this turtle! It is swimming toward the right but has a left, sideways (sort of secret) grin on its face that faces left. I think it is up to something but one thing I'm sure of is, you gave it the biggest piece of the sunshine pie and made sure it had plenty of oxygen bubbles. You always take care of your own Ian. That's why we all love you to the moon and back. The colors are wonderful. Your strokes show great care and coverage. I continue to say, "YOU ARE THE BEST!" Grandma Kelly

Ian, I can't decide which sucker I would enjoy most. I think I would have to stack them on top of each other and have them all at once. I love the colors and the happy smile on the center sucker. Well done Ian!

Ian, your creativity just keeps growing, like big flowers! Your sunflower in the lower left corner almost seems as if it is reaching out and I think I see a jonquil and an orchid which are two of my favorite flowers. Because you did not draw them on big stems they look like they are dancing. I love this artwork so much I am ordering cards. I can't wait to see what you will do next. So much love.

Dearest Ian, this piece is so interesting to me. It is obvious there is a series of beautiful hearts in your art, but I also see structures which are a very strong theme of your previous work. I see towers and plateaus and compartments that resemble rooms. This is a very interesting piece. I wouldn't be surprised if you become an architect! Even if it is a weekend architect, building beautiful ponds and monuments. I love you to the moon Ian. You are too smart for me!

Ian!!! This is my favorite piece of art so far. I thought I love the buildings best, but this chameleon reminded me of when your mom raised a real female and male chameleon from eggs. We made a beautiful habitat for them and your mom trained the male chameleon to drink water from a spoon! It was such an amazing time. Please ask her. The male she had looked just like this one. Well, maybe yours looks a bit brighter. I love this piece of art and I'm going to show it to everyone. I love you.

Gosh Ian, this piece actually makes me happy it is winter! The fly away hat and your snowman being off center gives your art so much movement I feel I could fly away too! I am going to order a tile to put on the wall just inside my front door and every time I come home this winter, storm or not, I will touch it and I'll be happy for the season. Snow much love buddy!

WOW, Ian! This city scape makes me want to jump into your city. I want to live on the top floor of the blue building and just watch the sun bounce off of the other skyscrapers. Your art makes me so happy.

Ian, you outdid yourself this time! I loved the expressions on these owls' faces and they are so colorful that I just had to order a mouse pad. Maybe I should call it an 'owl pad' so could look at it every day because your art makes me so happy. Well done!

Dear Ian, You outdid yourself this time! Your leaf looks like it is swirling! I think, because you didn't put it in the middle of the page and the leaf itself has different outside margins, it makes it have so much movement. I think you are an artist like your mom! I just love this one. Grandma Kelly

Ian, I love the way you used contrasting colors in this piece of art. It is just beautiful, and lively! Grandma Kelly

Ian, this is beautiful. Let's paint our bedroom walls at home. I want the yellow and tan pattern that uses straight lines!