Welcome back to another ‘Artist’s Corner’, the bit of my blog where I publish some crudely drawn cartoons and pretend that they are art. Recently I’ve been collaborating with my now 2-year-old daughter (it was her birthday on Monday). The results have been akin to what you might get if a man with no discernible drawing skills drew some pictures and got his toddler daughter to colour them in.
But it’s all been a bit of fun. Some of my regular readers have enjoyed posting pretentious critiques of the oeuvres in the comments section. And I hope that they will do so again today.
On to the work itself and we have two pieces to show you today, although they are very much part of a set. Collectively they are known as ‘The Birds’.
Enjoy.
James Proclaims! 
39 responses to “The Birds”
Happy birthday to your daughter! Although a bit late 😅
The paintings are awesome!
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Awesome may be generous but we thank you anyway
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The most felicitous salutations and celebratory greetings on the second anniversary of her birth to the young mistress, Little Proclaims!
Here again, in this captivating series we see where the real talent lay in this collaborative effort. While the pen and ink artist has done his job adequately it is the colorist who has brought the images to life with her bold strokes and vibrant color choices.
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I can’t argue with you conclusions regarding the talent ratio
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At least they don’t seem very angry!
Your daughter is just a few days after mine – I still remember that bloody stifling 36 hours in labour, even though it was now 21 years ago. We had just taken delivery of our first car with a/c and spent hours sitting out in the car park to escape the heat.
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It was insanely hot two years ago too. My wife had to spend near enough two weeks in hospital (a week before and a week after the birth) and there was not a hint of air conditioning. Very glad to bring the little one home although home has never been the same since…
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Salisbury had this dumb rule where noon was the cot-off. Babies born before noon got discharged one day, babies after, the next. We missed the cut by an hour so wife ended up discharging herself. She didn’t get any sleep the whole time she was on the ward so the first thing, I was thrown in at the deep end, looking after the new baby while she got some rest.
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I too found myself in the deep end as my wife had a longish convalescence but it made me learn quickly
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Bet your nips were sore after that 🤣
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You laugh but she did try to latch on. To no avail clearly…
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Happy birthday to the power behind the pallete. The maturity now being exhibited by these two artists storming the bastions of artistic conservatism is, frankly, astonishing. The two disembodied, birds though initially seen as twins have been artfully, nay craftily given slight changes depicting, no doubt the sense of individuality inherent in the Avian/Human condition. Of course this treatise can also be seen by those less inclined to embrace the nouveau as all shit and feathers.
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I couldn’t argue with either interpretation
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“Birds” you say?
OK.
I thought it was her who did the ‘open to interpretation’ stuff?
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Don’t know what gave you that idea…
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I’d love to see them fly … hard without bodies, feathers or birdie bits!! Hehe
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This is the world of art sir. If I say they are birds then they are birds!
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Could be one of Angry Birds character.
Belated happy birthday to your little protégé. Such an artist 😬❤️
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She is a rare talent
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Happy birthday to your daughter.
As for The Birds, I will leave it to smarter and wittier people than me to draw the evident Alfred Hitchcock comparisons.
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You’re the first to spot that!
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The frenzied and yet controlled colour explosions of these works are typical of Abstract Expressionism, engaging with the viewer on a highly performative level. They attain a fresh concentration through brighter colors, a simpler palette, and a surface devoid of obvious illusion. Depth still exists, but forget old-fashioned perspective. It sits on this side of the canvas. It is depth for only the hand and the light to penetrate, leaving behind the dream.
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That is literally what we we’re going for.
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Then well done you.
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A belated Happy Birthday to Little Miss P. I think you were wise to get her to do her drawing after she’d eaten her cake, jelly, ice cream, sweets etc – the sugar rush effect is clearly discernible in her art this week…
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She gets a sugar rush from an apple to be fair
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The toddler equivalent of a cheap date?
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Ah, this takes me back to 1964 when the Byrds were just starting out, trying to find their place in the world, just like the young artist. She cannot be ‘Younger than yesterday’, of course not. That would be silly. We do, of course, wish her Happy Birthday, although a little late, and hope that the coming year will see her mature in her art. Her collaborator seems to be drawing from ‘The Fifth Dimension’ and this work seems to stem from ‘Eight Miles High’. The young artist, meanwhile, is maturing in leaps and bounds, and is acquiring a huge following on twitter!
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Thanks for the Twitter pun. Someone had to do it and I’m glad it was you!
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I was surprised it had not been taken already!
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Happy Birthday to Little! Birds. I did not realize they were birds because they seem to have little round mouths below what I am assuming are the beaks. The mouths should be in the beaks. Now, maybe you are going the Picasso route on this one, in which case, I take it all back.
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The beak is two parts surely? Top and bottom? Like Big Bird off of Sesame Street
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Okay. I see your point. I never thought of it that way. 😊
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The flippin’ spotty-eared rabbits are back!
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You clearly have an eye for this sort of thing. I’d be prepared to let this go to a discerning gentleman such as yourself for a very reasonable price…
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That’s a bewildering juxtaposition: ‘discerning’ linked with buying your drawings. How reasonable could the price be? What, I guess I want to know, are you prepared to pay me?
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Haggling I see. That’s the spirit
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Well, gin would do…
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Your daughter is two now, surely time she had a retrospective of her life’s work.
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I believe she is due to be honoured with a lifetime achievement award soon
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