Catching Beauty

A Cottage

catchingbeauty — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:22:20 +0000

( December 2008 )

This is a quick sketch of someone else’s painting.

Christmas Polar Bear

catchingbeauty — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:20:11 +0000

( December 2007 )

A Village in Africa

catchingbeauty — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:13:20 +0000

I painted this for a friend in Africa.

( Sometime in 2008 )

Sandhill Crane

catchingbeauty — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:10:55 +0000

I made this painting for a teacher at my school, who substituted for two months. The paints didn’t work like oil paints are supposed to. I was inspired to do sandhill cranes by the background on my art teacher’s computer. My Mom says that this sandhill crane looks like a Pepsi bird.

( January 2009 )

Lone Cypress

catchingbeauty — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:38:15 +0000

This is my third oil painting. I took a class, and we painted it from a photograph. The cypress tree is looked at from one angle and the mountains from another. My art teacher says that that is artistic license.

( October 2008 )

Spaghetti Ostrich

catchingbeauty — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 23:19:19 +0000

We had just finished eating spaghetti for dinner, and I was the last one at the table and had a couple of noodles left. With the couple of noodles, I cut up a couple for the short pieces, and the rest I just moved into place with my fork. I never once touched the sphaghetti noodles with my hand, just my fork.

(My little brother and sister make food shapes out of bread. They bite the bread into the shape of the states they know–Oklahoma, Idaho, Florida–the ones that have unique shapes.)

( July 2008 )

Hannah Hippotana

catchingbeauty — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:35:44 +0000

Oops! I didn’t mean to write Hananah, I meant to write Hannah.

This drawing is for the Lingamish Hippo Doodling Contest.

( July 28, 2008 )

Christmas Hippo

catchingbeauty — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:33:48 +0000

This was also drawn for the Lingamish Hippo Doodling Contest

Inspired by the Song, “I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas” as sung by Gail Peevy. You can listen to the song on You Tube.

( July 28, 2008 )

Run Baby, Run!

catchingbeauty — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:15:19 +0000

Also drawn for the Hippo Doodling Contest on Lingamish

( July 28, 2008 )

War Dog Monument

catchingbeauty — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:23:24 +0000

( June 2008 )

This is a national monument in remembrance of war dogs. Our library had a project where we had to draw a picture of a national monument. I was wondering if there was a national monument that was an animal, and then I found this one. I decided I wanted to do it for my library project.

(Our scanner is not working very well, so my pictures are turning out staticky)