The Chronicles of Connor Part II (photos courtesy Jonathan Hunt 2010)
Here are a few photos of my 9 year old “apprentice” at a recent “Feel the Groove” event at the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale, a place he’s bent on attending someday. He drew and painted in front of a live audience and did it with poise and ease. And for painfully shy people like myself, I’m amazed at his natural ability to dazzle spectators with his art performances. He wants to run his own animation/movie company someday and his determination to manifest those desires seems to have no bounds.
What can I say? He’s got the art bug and his current goals include an application to a special Middle School of the Arts program in West Palm Beach. It would be an arduous journey via car, rail and bus, but it is his “dream” to go to art school and engage himself in drawing intensives. He has a list of portfolio requirements he has to meet before the big interview day and it’s serving as a powerful force of optimism. I hope to chronicle is portfolio journey in subsequent postings. So stay tuned! 
*And yes, he still has his padawan braid. It is something that will be ceremonially cut when he takes (and hopefully passes) his Tae Kwon Do black belt test in December 2010. His school classmates tease him incessantly about it, but he doesn’t care! He knows who he is and what he wants and I’m proud of him for that.
Beautiful work! You must be so proud of him, Lisa. I can’t believe he’s old enough to be thinking about middle school already. And I love that his braid will be cut in a coming-of-age ceremony for him as a warrior.
I love Connor’s robots. He has a real vision with them. Neat job “deconstructing” here.
It must be so cool to see a passion passed down in this way. I particularly like his robots – believe it or not they have inspired a few sketches of my own.