Thursday, October 13, 2011

Drawing -- greeting cards

Starting with Rishika's birthday we have started drawing for cards again. Now she has started to want to make the pictures look as real as possible. She wanted to draw her and Rishika playing football on the river bank. There were coconut trees on both sides. She wanted to draw something that would keep score! I was impressed but wondered where that came from. They have never played football together. Vish then re-collected that Anna and Akka play football in "Mallipoo...Where are you?" and the monkey keeps score. The illustrations and stories that she reads clearly play a great role.

On Parth's birthday she drew, Shiva and Parvati on Mount Kailash with Ganesh.Kartikeya was flying on a peacock. We wrote for him in Hindi. For Suhani's birthday she has drawn herself and Suhani in a garden. There are under a tree which is laden with mangoes. Her drawings are getting colourful and more real.

A couple of days ago the school had asked to draw what they wanted to take forward in themselves. She clearly is making an effort to draw well and realises that her drawings have gotten better.  She had written that  she wanted to get very good at drawing, learn to run very fast and remove all difficulties that she faced. She had drawn herself in our front yard sitting on a table and drawing. She was under a tree. Mom and Dad were standing holding hands and watching and trying to help out. Her cycle was parked, the front light had been drawn and so was the fan. It was a two-storey house with a balcony.

On Parth's birthday we were impressed with how well she designed her own T-shirt. The bottom of her T-shirt was a road with a white dividing line. Grass was growing along the road. There was a tree along the left seam. A butterfly.

We have been scribbling with side walk chalk in our front yard for a long time. I used to draw big pictures of what happened that day like a rangoli. Last week she drew a large Ganesh.

12th November...

For Anand's birthday she drew herself and Anand building large machines.


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