Painted Love
My daughter seems to have had another spurt in her drawing and painting ability lately. Little drawings of people with round tummies, funny shaped heads, stick arms and legs, and happy faces keep popping up all over the place! The other day she asked to do some painting while her brother was asleep, so I set her up with paints and brushes and let her go for it (while I, ahem, caught up on emails).
When she called me over to show me her work I was so surprised!
There is so much going on here that wasn’t happening three months ago when I last posted about her paintings. For starters she’s used brushes to paint with instead of fingers. The painting clearly depicts two people, with lots of detail (like the dangly blue earrings) and facial features. And she’s used such great colours! But best of all, when I asked if she was thinking about anyone in particular while painting she said, “Mummy, it’s you and Daddy! And you’re holding hands, because you love each other.”
As if I wasn’t crazy about the painting already! Now it’s a keeper. In spite of all we deal with in our family, if our kids have a sense of reassurance that Mummy and Daddy are a loving team – we must be doing something right.
Loving those blue earrings, Mama! You look gorgeous!
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It is a very cute picture!
I remember being so excited when my boys started drawing circles with eyes!!
My boys are starting to get to the stage where they roll their eyes when hubby and I hug or hold hands – I know they are secretly glad we love each other
wow – she’s got talent!
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What a beautiful story to go along with a gorgeous painting! I can just imagine it framed and hanging on a wall.
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Great picture to treasure – isn’t it amazing how they suddenly can do something new, and we think “how did that happen?”!!
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Hi Cath, this is just beautiful.
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