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Who gave Paddington Bear a light-sabre?
Who gave Paddington Bear a light-sabre?
On his first day of nursery school, Nina Levy's son didn't just get a neatly packed lunch and a sweet note from mom. In place of a plain, square napkin, he got a carefully doodled drawing. Almost 10 years and more than 2,000 pieces of napkin art later, Levy has quite the portfolio.
Nina, a sculptor and photographer in Brooklyn, creates these drawings for her two sons, Archer, 11, and Ansel, 7. Their usual requests?
"My younger son prefers images that he thinks will look 'cool' to his classmates," Levy says, "recognizable characters that are powerful, doing something exciting." The result is a catalog of hundreds and hundreds of napkins featuring cartoon characters, comic book heroes, Internet memes — and the occasional class pet.
Levy says each napkin takes anywhere from 20 minutes to two hours after the kids go to bed. She has it down to a science, since she's been using napkins as a canvas since 2006. What first started as a simple Sharpie outline has turned into intricate scenes with waterproof markers.
Though the kids take the napkins for granted, Levy says it's a way for them to connect.
"The napkins have certainly helped me to stay in touch with my kids' interests," she says. "Even if I can't stand a particular video game, TV show, or book that they are obsessing about, I have to look at it long enough to find something that I can draw, which usually makes me learn enough about it to appreciate it at least a little bit."
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