My Kid the Artist Redux

Remember those days, Gentle Reader, when your teacher would hang your art work out in the hallway? When you or your 'rent would hang your latest masterpiece on the 'fridge or in some place of honor in your home?

Yeah, it's the 21st century, so screw that. Kids put their art online.

While the boy is quite prolific (gotta keep the City of Austin recycling program in biz somehow), select piece of the art he creates at school is now and will continue to be available online through Artsonia. The site is kinda nifty, if a bit commercial: View a kid's art, leave her or him comment and then shell out some dough you could spend on other, more useful things to have a kid's art put on a t-shirt, mug, postcard (as in U.S.P.S., not e-greeting) or whatever. Oh, and Artsonia is so altruistic in that it gives the kid's school 15 percent of the money earned from these purchases. (Then again, that's probably more than what the local Girl Scouts club gets from cookie sales.)

So if you want to see the boy's directed art (as in someone's telling no, he can't draw another Jedi vs. battle droids face-off), check out his online gallery. Leave him a comment. Have a laugh. Just don't order anything. If you want an original, suitable-for-framing piece of the boy's work for your own, just e-mail me. I can hook you up with enough art to wallpaper your entire house. (No, really. Please help me get rid of some of his art.)