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Thread: Child's artwork
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22nd February 2006, 12:38 PM #1
Child's artwork
Since a lot of us are also artists of some sort, I thought some of you may be interested in seeing some pics of some artwork by our 10 y.o. daughter. She is currently working on writing and illustrating a children's book and is practising her sketching. (All of our kids can do portraits, even, so we have lots of fun together with artwork. Danita did the drawing for her avator.)
Cheers,
Jill
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22nd February 2006, 12:43 PM #2
excellent work - keep encouraging her...
Zed
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22nd February 2006, 01:15 PM #3
Great work on the drawings
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22nd February 2006, 01:34 PM #4.
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Jill you and your family are very, very talented and creative. Those sketches for a ten year old are wonderful. I especially like the third one You should look at combining some pyrography into the great furniture you and Danita make
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22nd February 2006, 09:12 PM #5
That girl has to be encouraged to continue she is very very talanted dont push just encourage. Tony
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23rd February 2006, 10:09 AM #6
Thanks Zed, Oges, Lignum & Tonto - I'll share your comments with her. Don't worry Tonto - I do only encourage - by doing artwork myself, providing them with plenty of art materials, complimenting their work, etc. It is a fun thing here, and all of them are just as talented, really! Our almost 19 y.o., Danita (on here - she of the jarrah desk) who is 13, this one at 10, our 7 y.o. and also our little boy who is 5 tomorrow. Art in this house is as natural as breathing - they are never bored - between art, music (again following their own level of interest, teaching themselves) and building things! We don't have TV, which probably helps. (Now you'll all feel sorry for them?!! )
Here is another one done by the same girl (daughter no. 3, aged 9 when she drew it)
Oh, and Lignum - this girl also has designed (with my help) her bed, art/study desk and bedside table to be made out of Jarrah and Marri or pine, with pyrography on it. I'll help her build it all, and she'll do the pyrography. We have to finish the house first (time wise) and then buy the pyro' tool!
Cheers Jill
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23rd February 2006, 10:26 AM #7
And some of my own drawings, so you can see the sort of encouragement they get! Shame they end up grainy looking because of the low kb's.
#1 - no relation, just a gorgeous little girl and great for a shading demo for the kids.
#2 - daughter no. 3 who did the above artwork
#3 - my pastel portrait of Danita (daughter no. 2)
Chantelle (d. no. 3) is currently working on an A3 charcoal sketch of two parrots that I will post in a couple of days, too....my usual long-winded style of posting!
Cheers,
Jill
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23rd February 2006, 03:11 PM #8
Here 'tis - she finished it already! I think they are Rainbow lorikeets, in b & w only. Bring on the Pyro' tool, I say!
Cheers,
Jill
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23rd February 2006, 05:06 PM #9
Sheez is there nothing this family can't do, I'm starting to feel very talentless in their presence. If I see a post about their musical prowess I'm leaving
Lovely work by your daughter, very very nice.
ps: how's the house coming, haven't noticed and pics of late or did I miss them.
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23rd February 2006, 05:23 PM #10Originally Posted by Jill
I've an idea that not having TV is actually a great boon for your collective creativity.
It's wonderful to see such rounded aspects of this too.
How's the house coming along?
Cheers!
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24th February 2006, 11:17 AM #11
Pope and Auld Bassoon....thanks for the chuckle & kudos! I've shared them with Chantelle.
Lol, Pope - do you want me to send you a CD of the compositions of our eldest on her Workstation keyboard & Danita on piano or electric guitar & singing?!!!
Also, thanks for the interest in the house. My husband is working on the external cladding of the upstairs lofts (gables and dormers) and I have found it hard to get to building work, now that I am schooling the kids again & have had a lot of other things to deal with....BUT in the next couple of weeks I should be able to post exterior shots, PLUS the pics of the finished and hung french doors. Next job - laying all the double limestone walls (internal ones also limestone, single skin of course) - that'll take a while. I can't wait to be able to start the fit-out for downstairs as it will take quite a while.
Cheers,
Jill
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24th February 2006, 12:41 PM #12Originally Posted by Jill
Will gladly accept your kind offer, if it's not too much trouble can you also enclose a few pics of your pets. I'm thinking, dog building his doghouse, cat doing the ironing, horse milking the cow ect. But only if they agree of course.
ps: keep the pics coming, I love what you're doing there.
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24th February 2006, 01:20 PM #13
Obviously there are multi-faceted artistic talent genes circulating. Love the drawings: a sweet glimpse into a very blessed family.
I suggest you reduce the number of pixels in your images: say a max of 900 in width or height, then use either jpegcompress (windows) or smallimage (mac) to reduce the file size. Then they won't appear nearly so blocky. The blockiness is because the compression is reducing the number of colour way down in order to produce such a large image on the screen.Those are my principles, and if you don't like them . . . well, I have others.
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24th February 2006, 09:16 PM #14
Wow... theres a lota talent in that household... and a nice house at that!
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25th February 2006, 12:10 PM #15
Hi Pope - lol - nah, sorry, we dipped out on the animals! We only have a pig that thinks she is a cattle dog and rounds up the cattle, nipping their heels and barking, even though she's never seen a working dog! Does that qualify?!!! Oh, and she also thinks she is a tractor - we're using her to get rid of our few acres of bracken fern! She definitely can't iron though - SHAME!
Thanks Zenwood for the kind words, and also the info on compressing the files. I'll try that next time.
Thanks, too Harry! That's why I'm on this site - checking out and being inspired by everyone else's talent & skills!
Chantelle was glad of all your kind comments, so thanks from her, too!
Cheers,
Jill
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