September 23, 2013

Sketchy memories.

I was hunting for a lost poem today, looking through my old journals, diaries and sketchbooks. I found this one little book from 2002 with drawings of my kids, and little notes about them. It brought me back in a way that no photograph can.

The eldest daughter was nearly eight. She was always practicing her violin.


She was a tiny little person. Small but perfectly formed.


It's hard to believe she's now nineteen and going to University.


And this daughter was only five at the time.


Even then she was fastidious about her clothes; everything had to be fancy, velvet, sparkley or shiny. She's still got definite ideas about fashion now that she's sixteen.

Children move a lot, and ink on paper is unforgiving. See how I noted my error of proportions on her face?


This was my son, at two. He was a jolly little fellow!

I was going to clean up the pages a little in Photoshop, because you can see right through them to the writing on the other side. But I decided to just leave it...after all, it's only a sketchbook.


The Huz, in a quiet moment.


I loved to watch my children. I felt that if I could fill my eyes up with them, I'd never forget the joy they gave me.


So many memories.


16 comments:

  1. these are so cool!! great illustrations to marl a special moment in time!

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    1. Thanks Darcy. I mean, I know that someone who's never met my kids prolly wouldn't recognize them in the nuance of line. But I still wanted to share.

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  2. Wonderful! So glad you found these.

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    1. Hey you! I'm glad too. I was happy to see I wrote those little notes in there. Like the one about you making the sled. It was so cool that you made those sleds for them :D

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  3. What an absolute treasure you found! It makes it even more special that you created these memories with your own to extremely talented hands.

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    1. Good thing I lost that poem or the sketchbook might've stayed where it was.

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  4. Love love love! I heart Littles...

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    1. Thanks Abbie. When am I going to see you? Must toonswag you!

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  6. It's amazing that you have these momentos created with your own talent. Please create a special box to hold your drawings and journals so that you can pass that box down to them to treasure.

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  7. Thank you for sharing these sweet little moments! They are simply lovely.

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    1. It's funny, I didn't think they were that great at the time I drew them.

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  8. Beautiful. You captured those moments with such skill and poignancy. You are an amazing artist.

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