Lilly Draws Cats - Dream On!

  Wouldn't you just love to freely draw with abandon, fully confident that your picture conveys everything you intend?  Lilly does.

It's awesome to watch.

And I did.

And I took notes and photographs.

And she just steadily kept adding lines and colors here and there.

  First she drew a cat pole.  I'd shown her how to make an oval with an edge for a table.  She then wanted me to draw one on her cat scratch pole, 

"You draw it," she said.

Then she drew the scratching cat.  And then a lazy cat....complete with tail wrapped around the pole!  What child would think to wrap a tail when she doesn't even have a pet cat of her own.

The top box, she said, was for the cat to sleep.  Note the fishes to the left and right, and the dark filled in circle to denote an interior.  What child would think to do that?

 Lilly erased my words Lazy Cat to replace them with a large mamma cat.  I realized the cat on the right was falling from the ledge, but was surprised when she said it was going for the goldfish in the bowl and using its lips, "me-um-um-um" (as she smacked her own lips) "to get the fishy snacks."

  And then we have the final free-hand unsupervised drawing in living color.  And doesn't each cat portray action?  And the mouse in the corner even looks curious.  

How does she do that?  

Top cat is dreaming of fishie snacks, and the cat below him is dreaming of a mouse!

I'm dreaming of being able to just sit and nonchalantly start drawing what's in my mind and having it convey feelings, be attractive, proportional, and colorful!

Dream on!

P.S.  It was a dry erase board and she promptly swiped it all away with her left hand, sigh.