Emerson brought this bird painting home from school, which I am totally in love with. In this scanned version you probably can’t tell, but she drew the image first in pencil, then outlined it in sharpie, then painted it with watercolors.
I love that in this picture each of the birds has a distinct personality yet they all seem to coexist on this branch together.
It reminds me that when I was pregnant, I had a recurring dream of the family comet. Liam is holding me and I am holding the baby and we are soaring through the cosmos with a rainbow comet tail beneath us. We are bound energy on our way somewhere.
And even though these birds aren’t bound they seem to enjoy being in each other’s midst, sharing a branch before resuming their respective flight paths.
Tags: birds
She’s quite an artist!