Warning: I'm About to Brag about One of My Kids!

If you read my blog often enough, you know that I have five sons and they all have a good deal of artistic talent.  I showcased dinosaur drawings from their boyhood days during a 5-day extravaganza called "T-Rex Week" back in June of 2011, if you need proof that I'm not just an over-proud mama.

While they all were endowed by their Creator with a great deal of natural talent, most of them stopped doing much artwork once they got to a certain age.  But son #4 (who recently celebrated his 25th birthday) continues to amaze everyone in our family with the imaginative artwork he creates.  He's always been a maestro using nothing more than a pencil, as evidenced during "Crazy Creatures Week" in August of 2012.  And he's no slouch when it comes to wielding colored pencils, either--as you can see by feasting your eyes on this detail-filled drawing he did for a co-worker as a Secret Santa gift in 2011 (which I first showcased in a post called "Lazy Saturday Mornings and Active Imaginations").

But in the past year or so, my uber-artistic boy has been fiddling with a computer drawing thingamajig called a Wacom Bamboo "Create" Tablet, a birthday gift he received from one of his older brothers.  This device lets him draw his artwork onto an electronic pad rather than actual paper (using a program called Sketch Book Pro), and then everything is magically transferred onto his computer screen.  Using this state-of-the-art gadget, he can then color and shade his work--without the mess and expense of paints and brushes.  In the hands of someone without true artistic talent, this newfangled device would be well-nigh useless; but with my boy's kind of talent, the possibilities for creating truly professional works of art are endless.

Yesterday, my son texted me a picture of the latest piece of artwork he had created using his tablet.

He actually entered this design in an on-line t-shirt contest--and though he didn't win, I told him he ought to send it out to Notre Dame to see if they'd be interested in making up some t-shirts with this image on it to sell at their bookstore.  I love my creative boy's original spin, combining the Four Horsemen with Irish leprechauns--and then giving the whole crew the look of the Ring Wraiths in Lord of the Rings.  It's pure genius (said his mommy!).  Don't you agree?