Sat 7 Feb 2009
Amie Draws the Cosmic Tree
Posted by brooklinemama under arts/crafts (children's) , drawings (childrens') , natural world[3] Comments
Amie wanted to draw from one of our art books. It’s a new thing. She loves to sit with the “humongous fat one” that DH and I lugged all the way from the Louvre so many years ago, and leaf through all of its 600 pages.
This time I pulled out a book about Hildegarde von Bingen. We leafed through von Bingen’s magnificent visions of the Cosmic Egg, the Microcosmos and the Macrocosmos, and the Cultivation of the Cosmic Tree. “That’s the one,” she said.
She put her entire heart into reproducing it in as much detail as she could apprehend and process. I helped a little, mainly by describing the aspects she wanted to focus on (“the square is big so everything can fit inside it. You can divide the inner circle by drawing a cross in it”) and by coloring in a little. The rest is all hers.
February 7th, 2009 at 10:32 pm
[...] here, in this blog. Many come here for my reviews of “green diapers”, or to read about Amie’s artwork, and lately also our nature studies. They are often confronted with posts about how we are [...]
February 12th, 2009 at 10:25 am
This is *exactly* what I am talking about over on my blog….even though we copy a painting or a piece of artwork, it become uniquely ours in some way. We interact and process with the image and then distill it down to something that reflects our personality or our being…soul, whatever you want to call it. I am amazed at your daughter’s maturity in regards to her artwork. She is one very blessed child to have a mama who is willing to nurture her interests.
Thanks for sharing your link to this great entry,
Barb-Harmony Art Mom
February 18th, 2009 at 10:19 pm
[...] expected she chose an image of Jesus on the Cross in our Hildegarde von Bingen book, from which she had already drawn Cultivating the Cosmic Tree. She drew the body and head of Jesus first, then the outstretched arms, and then she gave him a big [...]