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Alas - I call this "Monster" because I need an excuse to have this illustration fit in with this week's theme from our friends over at www.illustrationfriday.com - but in all honesty, I think it's a thing of beauty!

Having recently visited a local school which has a preschool program, Kat decided to adopt one of their art exercises for our little Penny. Kat was to paint half a face on a nice A1 piece of art paper, and Penny would complete the other half.

This was Penny's first foray into charcoals, and I dare say she loved it! :)

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As with all good stories however, there's more to it than that.

The thing is, when Kat drew the first half of the face, she drew it in portrait format; something like this:



However, Penny was sitting on her right hand side, and would have seen it side on; more like this:



And so you see how it is that the final picture came out as it did.



So this is "Monster" in the Frankenstein sense - even though I don't think so :) And I'm sure I'll be forgiven the loose association! :)

You can see that she's finished the face, added the neck, then she used her palms to rub charcoal into the paper for the body. She looooved that bit! Her hands were completely black and her grin went from ear to ear :) I didn't ask about the dark band at the top, but I suspect it's a hat.