I am a right-brained person. I am artistic, I am wild, I am free. I love dancing, singing, acting, all that jazz. When I was younger, I was an artist. When I say artist, I mean drew all of the time, I was the art teacher's "pet," I got into a middle school of the arts {not an easy thing to do!}. But once I was about halfway through sixth grade, I decided that I did NOT like drawing or art anymore. I had no interest whatsoever. I didn't want a thing to do with it. I know it sounds ridiculous, but I hated it. Mostly because there were some people in my art class that were... {gasp!} better than me. I hated that.
I remained this way for several years. The only time I would touch a pencil was to write something down, you could forget about me trying to draw something. If you would have asked me to draw you a picture, I would say, "That ain't happenin'." While my disinterest in visual arts grew, so did my love of dance, music, and drama. I found a home school drama class that I went to every week {still doing a drama class, but now a high school one}, I sang all of the time, and if you come over to my house odds are I'll be dancing. I love the arts to death. I am an artsy person {though I've never had lessons... :[[ }.
So I still hadn't started drawing again until December of 2010. I have a "Bird Identification" project for Biology lab that I have to do. I don't have to draw pictures of the birds, but I am making it kind of like a Lewis and Clark expedition journal. Do you get what I mean by that? I want it to look sort of scrapbook-y. Anyhow, so in December I decided to draw my first drawing in years... a Canada Goose. 
Do you like it? It took me probably three hours to do this, but it seemed only like 30 minutes. I enjoyed myself so much, I didn't know why I hadn't started drawing again!
So then a few days ago I decided to start drawing birds for the project again. I drew a Yellow-Rumped Warbler, and this is how it turned out:
I think they turned out rather nicely, do you agree? I am also currently working on a Great Egret and Mourning Dove. They are looking great so far!
Drawing and taking pictures of all these birds have really given me a new love for our feathery friends. I think they're pretty, gorgeous, adorable, really cool! As you can see my my {new} header and signature, I love them now! I think they have a very classic look as well as being cute and humorous. You'll probably be seeing a lot more birds on my blog, so be prepared. I've warned you! They are my new favorite animal... :]]
