The Art of Natural Dressage

Oh Nelly, your picture is really sweet. I like it.

That´s "Das Milka-Pferd"(the title). The meaning is "milka horse. " "Milka" is a chocolate company from Gemany. It´s my birthday present from Nelly. I love it.

Nelly was in a painting mood today, and I think she does it really great:

Aaaaah, sooo cute! I especially love the third one. Great how you can draw horses in a way that really shows their mood, Nelly! I wish I could do that.

Nora says she thinks it's very cool, too.

Thank you Romy
Your Picture is nice too .

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Very lovely, Nelly! Such cute and friendly horses The grooming picture is wonderful!

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Volker

The horse owes us nothing.

Thank you!!!! I like the grooming picture mostly too.


And goodbye

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This are the pictures that I wanted earlier upload into the forum.

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Wow, cooooooooooooooooool Nelly. The pictures are very nice. Have you drawn the spiders? They look so cool . Our art to draw animals is so different and I don't usually like the blurred shadows, but at the spider there is it better to see where it walks. Whether it is close to ground or far away to it.

I love your art, bye and big hug.

Thank you very much for the compliment . The spiders have I all alone drawn!!

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Wow, that last spider is amazing!
I love the fact that you even used shade in the legs, it's as if you can see all the joints, very creepy!

I'm also amazed by your drawing with the two horses with one horse resting his chin on the others neck. Their posture and eyes are so realistic, so lifelike, they're exactly like Blacky and Sjors when they are playing/being annoying together.

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New horse book: Mandala horses!

Never stop making mistakes! Natural Dressage

The picture with the fohl is my first picture from the front...


That is a cold blood stallion:


And here some other pictures:

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Yesterday Nelly visited us and while Nora was drawing, we were discussing about drawing - whether it was the end of the world when a drawing did not look nice and whether this should keep you from experimenting altogether. Sometimes Nelly still tends to avoid trying difficult things, saying that she cannot do it anyway. Well, after a while she wanted to try, so here is her first experiment of drawing less carefully (the upper horse is an old drawing by Nora).



I think it's wonderful, especially how she tried to get movement into the horse. In the beginning using the pencil more boldly usually makes the drawings all dark, so the next step would be to use the shades of grey in a more differentiated way. Looking forward to our next experiments.

Great job! There's definitely a lot of movement in the drawing, which makes it very alive and interesting. Keep going with your experiments!

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Volker

The horse owes us nothing.

Thank you for the compliment Volker

Especially for ROMY!!!!! Extra expressiv

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Great, Mrs. Nelly! Looking good!

So now that you have learned to use the pencil inside the horse, the next thing we can learn will be to draw the structures in there, like muscles and all these things.

Thank's, I check it out...

Bye Romy and the ather!

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Hello, I have new drawings for the forum! The first picture is pan...


And this is Titums eye. This is my perfect picture:




Here is a one drawing by Romy that I have copied:

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Very nice, Nelly! Nora loves the eye, and I think that especially the last one is wonderful. It really shows that you have been practising and experimenting with the muscles and shadows. Makes it look so much more alive.

We'll go to the art shop to buy new paper and pencils this afternoon - shall we bring something for you?

Hugs from Romy and Nora

No, thanks

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Nelly going wild...

Today Nelly showed me her new drawings. And wow, what a change! I just so love it when the children are experimenting like that. Whatever drawing style they end up with, it's all fine with me. But it just makes me so glad to see that they are trying things out without fear, just experimenting and learning.







Also, today Nelly encouraged Safia to draw. She told her to never say that she cannot do something, because she needn't copy the photo but just do her very own version of it. And then Nora added that if it ends up looking like nothing, that's no problem either, because she can still throw it away. Just wonderful when my presence is becoming unnecessary, because the children are taking over.

Beautiful artwork Nelly I love the second one down , the horses look so clever !

Thanks for the compliment Faldor. I love this one too. But I like all my pictures.

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Yesterday Nelly and I coloured the carpet of my living room, and Nelly asked me to post pictures. So here is my new spotted pink floor.





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That was so much fun yesterday! But we have the bottom painted not only red and white! On the entrance we have painted it yellow and green. It looks like a perfect artwork. Too bad that Nora wasn't there. Nora would have made it even more determined fun

see you soon, Nelly

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