"Although I speak from my own experience, I feel that no one has the right to impose his or her beliefs on another person. I will not propose to you that my way is best. The decision is up to you. If you find some point which may be suitable for you, then you can carry out experiments for yourself. If you find that it is off no use, then you can discard it." Dalai Lama...

Wednesday 8 June 2011

Wall art...

It crossed my mind recently that Milly hadn't been drawing for some time. She likes to draw girls and she designs their outfits and they have streaks in their hair. Over the years I have realised that these breaks are quite normal for her and she often starts drawing - her *ladies* as we call them :-) - again and somehow without any practice the precision, detail and style, has moved on.

Some time ago - 3 years ago now - we painted a part of the wall in the dining room white so that Milly - and friends - could use it to draw on...


Initially it wasn't used much at all. Now however we have some beautiful images drawn by Millie (friend) and Alex - most wonderful nephew :-) Amy also left her mark:-)) Milly drew a series of  her ladies.
Then after a few months the piano had to be placed in front of it.
We got it free from a friend as Milly had shown some interest in a Piano at my Sisters house, she had really enjoyed plonking around on it :-) - however she didn't use the piano at all and we eventually decided that it could be given away to someone who would get some use from it. Since then Amy and Emily have done self portraits and messages have been left and song lyrics have been written on the wall.

When we decided to paint the dining room we had discussed whether the wall should be painted over. Milly and Amy were very keen it should stay. We decided to extend the area and obviously the clean white paint was just calling out for some art....

First one is hard to see as it is a pencil outline apart from her very red lips and fingerless glove. You can click on the pictures to enlarge them..


 Second *lady*.
Intricate detail and a whole personality....
It is lovely to see these against her much earlier attempts on the wall and see the growth in her style. Milly likes to work through things in her own way and doesn't like to use how to draw books. I think it is paying off in her individual style and the character she gives each *lady* ....


The wall....
Al did an excellent job getting a straight line between the new pink colour and the white :-)



I have earmarked a wall in hallway as another possible space for some wall art. It will need some prep first though as the paper is textured - not the best surface for Milly's intricate detailed *lady's* .

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