sibart & some smudges...

This is Alex's latest drawing. I put it on the sidebar, but thought it deserved a tiny bit more attention. I was next to him in sacrament meeting last Sunday when the first eye came to be. He drew it, didn't trace it, with no picture in front of him. I think the picture is very similar to one he saw in Leven Thumps. He creates things like this. From memory. It is amazing to me. HE is amazing. He sees things differently than most of the world. He sees textures, shadows and light. He sees tiny, tiny details. I watch his hand move across the paper, wondering what I am about to see. His pictures sometimes look almost like photographs to me. What a gift. He writes stories too. He is so brilliant with his words. You can hear, see, smell, feel what he is describing. He loves to read, so bases his stories on others that he's enjoyed. I'm sure he could write #8 to the Harry Potter series...and we'd all love it!