my artist

here is some of ella's artwork from the past few months.

she went downstairs while i was cooking and drew this gorgeous picture of little bear one day.  i couldn't believe she thought to include even his paws.  i just love it.

this is a watercolor in which the storm clouds are moving in:

this is the rain coming down:

this is after the storm:

trees:

the artist herself:

she started writing out the alphabet and then decided to draw a picture of little bear:

here is the first time elenora wrote out the entire alphabet by herself:

here is the first actual portrait elenora's drawn.  momby was sitting by the window holding a ukulele.  she had a hot pink shirt on.  ella told mamaw "now don't move" and she set herself up in front of momby with a pencil and drew this portrait, being very careful to make the hair just the right length and to add the glasses.  then ella noticed that momby's hot pink shirt was reflecting up onto her face, so ella ran and got this pink highlighter and very meticulously added the shading to the picture.  i was so impressed that ella recognized that the sun was making the reflection primarily on the right side of momby's face, so that is where elenora put all the reflection on the picture.  i didn't tell her to do that.  she just has that artist's eye. (i drew the ukulele).