What's with your user name? And what about that avatar?

[islandgirl82]

Ok well there's a few pics... Lol

This reminds me of a mermaid. I love them!

 

[Bean789]

Ok well there's a few pics... Lol

Very interesting. Looks like fishes in the skirting, moon overhead, the Omega symbol (somewhat stretched out) but I think this symbolizes something else but I can't quite remember where I have seen the exact symbol except maybe over head of a diety, a mastectomy, birds symbolizing freedom and acceptance, (?) Ha ha! Beautiful painting, very well done. Just a novice here at the symbolic meaning.

 

[hennible]

thanks
Don't forget the Mastectomy scar... If you look it's growing leaves... It just about healing.

 

[tntchix]

hennible these are beautiful!

 

[tntchix]

This is my favorite art piece done by my dd last year, it's called "Contemplation" I say it's a book in their hand she says it's an ipad.

Kids. Artists. Either way it's poetry to me.

 

[Blooie]

I love looking at the artwork! Hennible, your painting is wonderful and the message is easy to grasp! And tntchix, how old is your daughter? Wow! Um, would anyone like to see two pieces of art done my my 8 year old granddaughter? She has mild autism and a memory like an elephant!

 

[hennible]

Love to see some Blooie!

 

[tntchix]

I love looking at the artwork! Hennible, your painting is wonderful and the message is easy to grasp! And tntchix, how old is your daughter? Wow! Um, would anyone like to see two pieces of art done my my 8 year old granddaughter? She has mild autism and a memory like an elephant!

She's a young teen, but has always been an artist. She used to decorate her mashed potatoes instead of eating them.

I miss those days, now they are her favorite food. Go figure.

Of course, we want to see them!!!

 

[Blooie]

Okay, there's a story behind this one. Katie's favorite place in the whole world is Yellowstone - specifically Artist's Point. She calls it "The Big Waterfall" and we have to drag her away from there when we go to the Park. We usually take her several times during the summer. Well, she was four years old, and Jenny was trying to get things ready for her 5th birthday party. So she gave Katie her watercolors and paper and asked her to make a new painting for the fridge. Katie got busy. At one point Jenny walked past her and said, "That's a lot of the same color, Katie - why don't you add another color?" Katie shook her head and said, "I'm not done with this spot and it is only this color there."

Now,bear in mind that she had no photograph in front of her. She did this entirely from memory, and her last trip to the Park had been months before. Her birthday is in December. Katie finished her painting and immediately wanted to bring it over to show Gramma. Jenny looked at it and didn't argue - she bundled her up and they walked across the street to our house. They came in, Katie showed the painting to me, and had this expectant look on her face. "Do you know what it is, Gramma?" Well, I did - the second I saw it I knew exactly what it was. But I didn't want to mis-identify it. We've all done that - look at a child's picture and say, "What a beautiful butterfly" only to be told that it's a tree.

Here is Katie's picture, and under it is what she was she was painting. Her painting is framed and holds a place of honor in our home.




I absolutely LOVE it. I love her freedom with the colors, and yet she managed to capture the ruggedness and the movement of the Falls so perfectly. She even got the little curly wisp of mist off to the right of the Falls. She was 4, just a week away from being 5 when she did this one.

The second one was done this summer, again from memory of one of her favorite places. This is how she remembered Grand Teton National Park, another place we visit frequently in the summer.







I think she's amazing!!
Edited to add: If you click on her Grand Teton painting, done with chalk, you can see that she tried to capture the depth of the mountains by "ghosting" them, a technique she discovered on her own to show dimension on a flat surface. There are ghost mountains behind and above the main ones.

 

[tntchix]

Just wow, Katie. They are breath-taking. Trena loves them too.

*Hugs all around*