Awesome Artists

Bentley has been an artist for some time now. He does gel ink drawings, crayon drawings, painting, and watercolor art work. He often paints animals--in abstract form. Most all his current art work is abstract expressionism. It's definitely nonrepresentational and highly spontaneous, but he totally rejects the nihilism aspect that some abstract expressionists embrace.

This afternoon Bentley tutored Viva on her first crayon drawing. His work is in the left side of the drawing in green. Her work is in the lower right. She worked on her drawing for a while and then tried eating the crayons. I took them away.


Jake is a very energetic artist. He covered his paper in short order with lots of lines. I was very impressed. I think crayon may be his artistic medium!


Bentley produced one crayon drawing and two watercolors. He told us that the watercolor in gray and brown tones is of hippos.




I'm undecided whether his work aligns more with the action group or the color field group of the abstract expressionism movement. What do you think?

Here's a Bentley watercolor from earlier this week. His opa really liked the fall colors in this work.


Here are two paint on construction paper masterpieces that Bentley created sometime during the past few months. He likes to use a circular sponge brush to create geometric designs.



Kara purchased Bentley some tubes of acrylic paint today, so next week he will get to try out something new.