DRAWING ANIMALS AT THE FARM
It was a spring day. I hope you were able to play outside too.
After a few days cooped up inside the house because of the rain and the rules, I decided that I needed to visit the animals at the Natick Community Organic Farm. It’s spring and that means baby animals! I wanted to draw their pictures with my charcoal and pastels.
I walked through the forest at the end of my street and through the center of town. On past the river and down to the elementary school. The farm is next to the school.
DRAWING ANIMALS:
Drawing animals is not easy because they move. And baby animals are constantly moving.
Hold still baby animals!
They don’t listen to me… so I listen to them and do the best I can. Just like listening to trees.
I did many drawings on big sheets of paper. Good drawings. Bad drawings. Fast drawings and slow careful drawings.
Soft charcoal pencils, Wolff’s Carbon pencils, a gray pastel and a big lump of very black charcoal.
I saw a baby goat. Maybe it was a teenage goat? It was in a corral with two big wooly sheep.
There were pigs and chickens
And a mother cow and her calf (and some robins …I’m much better at drawing robins!).
