Child drawing: The famous FlannCo birds

A duck, walking.

A duck quacking: (See the sound lines?)

Rapunzel duckling.

Children's Drawings

I am fascinated by the psychological implications behind kids' drawings.

There are galleries devoted to children's drawings:

• NaturalChild.org's Global Children's Art Gallery
• Google: one, two, three
• Flickr's "Kids drawings" group (and)
• Paintings based on children's drawings
• Kid depictions of the September 11th, 2001 World Trade Center attacks
• Irritatingly coherent children's drawings from the Spanish Civil War
• Even children's drawings of wartime atrocities in Darfur
• A paper (without pictures) about psychology, interpreting drawings and how children use drawings as expression
• Psychology resource:  The stages by which drawing develops in children (from a design website).

I have been collecting Lana's drawings.  Now that she is five years old and attending kindergarten, it's fun to look back on her progress.
From this:

Roses

A cookie, a candy cane and a lot of goodies (with nuts)

A crown

To this:

A mermaid with an octopus and a starfish

Duckling on a moving chair (motion lines) watching a camera

To this:

Crocodile with numbers

A sheep (tail wagging with motion lines) or a goat without horns (a big cow took its horns)

To this:

Baby with sign language for "baby"

A cat with a big rainbow

A rose, blue bell, dandelion with rainbow, clouds and sun

A dolphin with bubbles and seaweed

In fact, I think I will slowly put up a drawing or two (or two hundred) and show them off to the world.  The internet has just become my refrigerator.

Blog distinction

This is the original FlannCo web log.  I migrated its most interesting content to Wordpress.com in June of 2010. I intended to keep this around for cross posting but then decided that cross posting is for people who have an unlimited supply of time and energy.  So I resolved to retain it as a placeholder and occasionally link to the new blog's content (example).

As the Flannery Correspondence idea is growing in importance and professionalism (at least in my mind), I am inclined to keep flannco.wordpress.com devoted to clean, clear, refined writing about correspondence, our family and how Gypsies may build castles.  As for this blog, flannco.blogspot.com, I am redefining it for any flow-of-consciousness ideas that I do not have time to explore but may test on the open internet before they are ripe.  Rename:  FlannCo Flow, to reflect the rushing issue of ideas, many uncaught or un-catchable that float past without second thought.

Let It All Hang Out

Elizabethtown reminded me of this hidden musical treasure:

http://lyrics.wikia.com/The_Hombres:Let_It_Out