Taking a break from watercolors for a moment, I’ve been doing some pencil sketches, one of which I featured with a poem from last week. Although I’m usually copying someone else’s artwork, I actually drew this deer from a photo I found on the internet. I used a few coloring pencils to finish it off.
Did you ever read the book The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings? I read that as a child – first book that made me cry (but not, by a long shot, the last). It’s about a boy who raises a fawn as a pet. If you haven’t read it, you could still probably make a good guess as to why the story made me cry.
Got a hankering to start drawing mice, which may turn into a series of watercolors paintings. I found these cute sketches by Brenda Lee Minor on Pinterest and gave it a try. Our kids were fond of the Redwall series by Brian Jacques, in which mice with names like Matthias and Cornflower were the main characters. I mean, why not?
Ta ta, friends!
Not a blog creature was stirring, not even a mouse…in the morning.
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I am familiar with the title The Yearling,
but I have not read it. I suspect I could not
handle it. Bambi, Lassie, certainly Dances With Wolves,
I just can’t handle it.
We did have some of our goats butchered,
but then we knew how it would be done (humanely) …. and I wasn’t
there to see it done! (Dave confirmed that it was an appropriate process)
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Lots of animal stories are tough to read in that way – tear jerkers!
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