Here is a story with StickFiggy the stick-figure that is all about the magic words “thank you!”  Remember, while you are reading this to children who are too young to read or read fast enough, you can always hit pause and then resume when you both are ready! Do send me feedback as well! What other basic childhood lessons would you like to see?

Cheers,

Jane & StickFiggy

the little stick-figure with BIG stories

Yesterday I saw this adorable flower bobbing around in the breeze! I captured it on my nifty ipod video camera- sweet huh!? While playing around in imovie, I wondered if I could merge that footage with a semi-animated StickFiggy .  The above YouTube short movie is the product of all this wondering.

Please feel free to pass it along to anyone with little kids who might want to teach them NOT to just pick any flower! I had so much fun making it- feel free to comment.

Cheers,

Jane & StickFiggy

Modern whimsey for endless childhood. Show, not tell.

See in real time the process of drawing StickFiggy action sequences. For those of you who golf, I would like to share with you my little discovery: golf and drawing in non-erasable ink are VERY SIMILAR! Let me explain with a list of similarities:

1. Solid basics. Like swing mechanics of golf  you need basic familiarity with tools and craft of drawing.

2. Visualization. You need to be able to picture what you want to do. Imagine the ball going in the hole…imagine the stick figure’s exact body position.

3. Feel : as you do the swing or make the pen mark, you must go by feel. You can’t watch and evaluate AS you are swinging or drawing. When I’m drawing, the scale is often so small that I can’t actually see everything I’m doing as the pen itself is in the way. This does not matter.

4. Don’t over-think.  This always leads to a mediocre result.  Instincts do need to balance out the learned basics.

5. Relax. This is when the successful results can happen.

6. Joy- the Golf Gods and Art Gods might reward you when you have this during your attempt.

7. If you mess up….you just have to let it go and go to the next hole/get a new piece of paper.

8. Addictive-quality. Once you taste that pure zing of flow and intelligence directing your ball to the hole or crafting pure visual communication, your own world- new characters  - you want it again and again and again!

So…if you like golf, you might also like making art!

Cheers,

Jane and StickFiggy

StickFiggy and the Birds

See what happens later this week. The story will include a little message on writing “Thank You” letters.

Cheers,

Jane & StickFiggy