Cat Sitting on Floor – a watercolor

/ hsoi


Cat Sitting on Floor

Daughter received a set of professional watercolors and a nifty composition book for Christmas. She spent the morning painting this and just came in to show me her work.

I really like it. There’s a style to it. I don’t know how to word it right but… well, you know how a lot of kids’ artwork looks like kids artwork? not very refined? This doesn’t have that. There’s some sort of modern style to it. I can’t put my finger on just what it is, but I dig it.

Or maybe, I’m just a proud Daddy. 🙂

13 thoughts on “Cat Sitting on Floor – a watercolor”

    • I don’t know… that sort of thinking doesn’t sit well in this household.

      I blame the crappy iPhone camera.

    • Yeah, something like that.

      It’s the sort of thing where I’ve seen professional painters (or even really good amateurs) paint in a similar way. I mean, kid artwork always ends up on the fridge door… but this, I could see wanting to put a frame around it and put it on my wall.

    • Seconded.

      Either way, that kid could have quite the future as a painter, if that is what she can produce now… Definitely has a certain appeal to it :).

      • Thank you.

        I’m proud of her, and happy to encourage and support my kiddos in whatever they want to do. Now if Oldest can just find out how to make a living via LEGO, we’ll be set!

  4. well….there’s some proud Daddy in there, I’ll give you that 😛

    As someone who spent lots of time around art majors and in art classes in college….thats not half bad at all!

    I’ve not paid close enough attention to figure out about how old your daughter is, but if she’s of age/temperment (and interest on the subject) to take constructive criticism you might see if there’s a place locally that teaches art to mixed ages (mixed ages because its less likely to feel below her by ending up with a bunch of “kids”), or I can toss in a few comments of my own, or not if all she wants is have fun and create and the world’s opinion can go float a boat (that was me as a kid, though I did enjoy the art class)

    • Well, I do my best to keep things about Wife and Kiddos vague. Yeah, someone might be able to hazard a guess… I mean, she’s obviously not an infant, but she’s also not an adult. I make the choice to put myself into the public eye, but the kids don’t. Sure, someone with enough gumption could sleuth around and find out but well, that doesn’t mean I have to thrust the kiddos into the light. Given my own childhood (with my Dad’s chosen vocation), I’d rather let my kids be themselves.

      Since we homeschool the kids, we’re always open to letting the kids explore stuff. If she wants to explore deeper and take a class, we certainly scout around for appropriate venues. If you want to offer your own comments, feel free to make them here (or email me… address in the “About” page). I’m sure she’d be willing to take any input to help her become better.

      • I’d gotten the impression you’d been deliberate about it yes, but I’d also not bothered to try to figure it out either, no point since its none of my business

        The nice thing about the mixed ages type art classes is that the adults in them are generally there for the fun of it, so you don’t get the competition that can occur with all kids to “do better than he did,” the teacher mostly left me alone with my “assignment” other than tips and pointers periodically, and I had fun drawing/painting stuff I’d not considered to be art before.

        I’ll reserve any comments of my own till my head stops its pounding and my nose its dripping (my nephew brought home a cold for christmas, wasn’t that kind of him?) and I can attempt to remember the sorts of stuff that bugged me about my drawings as a kid and how I eventually learned to fix it.

        • I agree about mixed ages stuff. It’s something we realized with homeschooling. When kids are lumped all day long with nothing but others of their same age, maturity, development, and so on… well… there’s something to this, but a lot not to this as well. Homeschooling tends to provide an environment with exposure to people of all ages, and that’s really been a boon to our kids. So yeah, as long as the folks aren’t all uppity about the art, such a class would be a good thing.

          But if there’s any class she’s interested in right now, it’s taking the Red Cross Babysitting class. 🙂

          I hear you about the cold. Suffering from the same myself. When/if you do have some things to share, please send them along. I just spoke with Daughter about it and she was certainly open to any feedback you’d be willing to offer. Thank you.

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