The Missy’s March Madness Word Art Challenge is two weeks old, and am I ever having boatloads of fun with the word prompts my mom (that would be Jenna Barrett) chose for me to do. All of the artwork that everybody is doing is over on my Facebook group page called Missy Barrett Art Challenge.
Most of the art I did was by me except for yesterday’s word and that was ICE CREAM. I had to ask my big brother Josh to help me so we collaborated like we did for the prompt TRAIN in the first week. Josh did the drawing that I had in my head, and then I did the harder work of inking everything. There was a lot of wood that needed grain drawn on it and Josh didn’t do those lines for me with his pencil. He said I could just keep on practicing my word grain skills because they’re getting pretty good and I have to keep on getting better, so that’s what I did. Here’s what it looked like when it was done.

And just like I did for the other art Josh did with me, we both got our names put on the artwork because that’s only fair when someone does so much work with you on something. Anyway, that’s how come Josh’s name is there and it’s first because his drawing was first and my inking was second.
The art that was the way most work for me was the one with the word prompt of YARN and that’s mostly because first I had to knit something so I could look at it before I got to draw it. Even then, I had to ask my brother Aaron to help a little bit except not with the art part like Josh does. Aaron knows how to do fancy writing so I asked him to make my yarn say yarn. He did that but then he told me to be crazy careful not to mess it up because he wasn’t going to keep on fixing the yarn word if I wrecked it.
Aaron doesn’t know I did this, but I took a picture of it with my digital camera just in case, but I didn’t need to worry about that because I did not mess up the yarn. But just in case I did by accident, I still had another way to fix things that didn’t mean Aaron was going to have to write the word out for me again exactly the way he did the first time. Besides, that’s probably impossible to do it exactly the same way two times in a row, right?

I know the knitting part I made isn’t very good but I did it superly fast so I could get to drawing it, and plus, knitting is hard to do so even if I took more time doing it better, probably it wasn’t going to look too much better than how it turned out.
I’m already thinking about what I’m going to draw for the words for Week #3 of this art challenge. Also, I’m kind of sad the challenge is already half finished because I’m having way lots of fun doing this and also I’m learning a lot about thinking of different ways to draw things. My mom told me not to worry because she said if I really want to do a weekly challenge, she has way lots more ideas she can write out for me on a chart like she did for this challenge.
This is the word prompt chart she made up for this challenge.

Anyway, this week it’s seven days of words to turn into art starting with lemons and ending with flowers. I have a couple ideas already going on inside my head so be sure to visit my Facebook group to see what everybody comes up with on these fun words.