For the second season in a row, the SF Giants turned over the player portraits shown on the scoreboard to children battling pediatric cancer. This is a lovely tribute to the kids, but also some truly fantastic art. The drawings were provided by Kids & Art, Family House, Camp Okizu, and the Lucille Packard Children's Hospital.

Several Bay Area pediatric cancer patients got to see their artwork on the jumbotron at Oracle Park on the evening of September 8. The portraits of San Francisco Giants players had been made at an art workshop run by Kids & Art Foundation.

At the workshop back in June, professional artists and patients worked side-by-side to draw and paint colorful portraits of players like Casey Schmidt, Brandon Crawford and Mike Yastrzemski.

Other art options included designing temporary tattoos, creating home team pennants and experimenting with printmaking. Giants outfielder Mitch Haniger stopped by the workshop to meet the kids, sign autographs and admire their artwork.

It was a thrill for the participants to reunite with fellow pediatric cancer patients they had met at the workshop a few months ago, and to see their pieces up on the Jumbotron on Pediatric Cancer Awareness Night. ESPN picked up the story and showed several of the portraits at a Giants game later that weekend, and Sports Illustrated wrote a blog about it! (Thanks to Susan Slusser of The San Francisco Chronicle for capturing the amazing art in the article.)