On the Drawing Table
February 23, 2007
This week's assignment is to post a picture of one your family's/child's art projects or drawings. Be even more daring and post one of your own! Journal about the project.
When Birdie was six years old, she was very interested in birds. We keep several feeders and a bird bath in our yard and, as you can imagine; we have very many books about birds and bird identification on our nature shelves. After spending the morning and the better part of the afternoon quietly watching the birds in our yard, she came to me with several watercolors she had finished. I thought they were beautiful then and I think they are beautiful now. The first one is an American Goldfinch. You can tell he is a male because of his black cap.
The second one is of a baby American Robin just toddling its way through the grass. You can tell it is a baby by its speckled breast and charming chubbiness.
The third one is, of course, a Blue Jay.
My favorite has always been the finch and I was tempted to just post that picture alone, but I think that showing all three of these paintings shows how she was able to capture the personality of each bird.
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Comments:
Those are great! What a nice collection of birds. : )
Posted by: KarenW at February 24, 2007 1:06 AM
just beautiful! I think the finch is my favorite too, tho the colors on the blue jay are wonderful, so bright! Thanks for sharing, gave me a nudge to start our nature notebooks again, I think now we will start with birdwatching.
nice to see you back on the blog!
Posted by: Jenny in Ca at February 24, 2007 2:26 AM
Those birds are absolutely beautiful! She certainly has a gift for art. We are studying some birds right now, too.
Posted by: Training Hearts at February 25, 2007 8:15 PM
How absolutely lovely and if she drew these at six, she must be quite talented. These should certainly be framed and hung!!
Posted by: Me at February 25, 2007 10:52 PM
These are exquisitely beautiful! Do you have them framed somewhere in your home? It's like a little bird series! :)
Posted by: Elise at February 28, 2007 10:40 PM
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