pennybel

I write "first written words" only because these are the first I've really seen; my wife assures me that Penny has been practicing her writing in her own time for some time now.

In this case, however, she signed her name (as "PEA") on the back of a collage she made for me for Christmas.

And she didn't ask anyone how to spell it.

But first the collage:



The ladybeetles are wooden craft accessories. The circular green "leaves" are stickers. The rest is texta, on art paper.

Penny tells me these are ladybeetles and the green stickers are leaves. She's drawn two swirls (top left), the letter 'A' (top right) and the centre ladybeetle has a blue half-circle around it which joins it to the leaf (which she's partially coloured blue). She didn't explain the arching blue and purple lines, but pointed out the little green swirls (which is from a texta she has with a swirl-shaped nib) and the little red hearts (likewise). Lastly, she pointed out the "beautiful colours" she used to colour some of the leaves (along the bottom).

As mindblowing as that creation was, now comes the part that really blew me away - her signature on the back, which, I'm assured, she received no help with, even as regards spelling.



She's written "PEA" which we often call her, and she pointed out the green encompassing line was a "container to put her name in". The date was added by my wife, and the red spots have come through from the collage on the other side.

Because I'm a totally proud dad I'm going to link this on Illustration Friday - so if you've come from there, and read this far, thank you :) I'll ride on the totally loose connection that the blue texta provides! (and promise not to be so lax in future).

She wrote a second signature today too:



Again the date was added. This was on the back of a texta illustration of, conveniently, a blue spider web:



She assures me "there's no spider in the web - but that's ok."

(We've had alot of spiders about the house lately).

Chris.

PS, in case you've missed the introduction post, Penny's 3 years, 2 months - and I have a heck of a backlog of paintings to upload!