lesson one: bird

As part of a christmas gift I promised my older daughter I would do a series of drawing lessons for her found in this book Drawing with Children by Mona Brooks. We completed the first lessons a few days ago, and I thought I'd show our progress. Following the directions I find that my style reverts to its simplicity. In this case, we followed step-by-step instructions to draw a bird: make a dot with a small circle around it for the eye, draw a line near it for the middle of the beak, make an angle line going back from the beak to the first line, draw a curve around the top for the head, etc. It's all about putting different shapes on the paper in a certain size, order and relationship to make a recognizable picture. Here's our results, mine and kiddo's: