Me and The Fellas are working to make painting a habit.
We had so much fun around the Opus Memoriae MMXVII that we decided that each month we were going to pick the “theme of the month” or some thing we really enjoyed and make a picture out of it. For January, I am the commissioned artist, but in February all three will make a panel.
The Elder was possessed in January with the Harry Potter series, and the agreement was “read the book, then we can watch the movie” after which we talked about the differences between the two. At its most fervent, The Elder consumed the 759 pages of “The Deathly Hallows” over a weekend and earned two movies. I asked ten questions to make sure he had really read it and got extreme details on the Deathly Hallows origins, DH chain of custody, horcruxes, the evolution of Snape, etc. etc. And since we watched all eight movies as a crew, and our car rides have been filled with “what house would you be in?”, “why don’t house elves want to be free?”, “what would happen to Draco if he didn’t want to be evil?”, “what’s the best charm?”, “could a time spinner really work?”…the Potter magic was interwoven into a lot of our day to day. The Elder was so caught up in it, that when talking about professor/werewolf Remus Lupin turned into a twenty-minute Daddy Soliloquy on “Romulus and Remus” and the founding of Rome and magic and raised by wolves combined with how to decline Latin nouns like “lupus” for wolf, I received the high praise of “that’s much better than your usual useless information.”
Voilá!
