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Swinging on the Birches by Starflower1234

Artist Starflower1234 [gallery]
Time spent 5 hours, 23 minutes
Drawing sessions 7
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Swinging on the Birches

Postby Starflower1234 » Sat Feb 04, 2012 12:54 pm

When I see birches bend to left and right
Across the lines of straigher darker trees,
I like to think some boy's been swinging them.
...
I should prefer to have some boy bend them
As he went out and in to fetch the cows--
Some boy too far from town to learn baseball,
Whose only play was what he found himself,
Summer or winter, and could play alone.
One by one he subdued his father's trees
By riding them down over and over again
Until he took the stiffness out of them,
And not one but hung limp, not one was left
For him to conquer. He learned all there was
To learn about not launching out too soon
And so not carrying the tree away
Clear to the ground.
-excerpt from Birches by Robert Frost

This semester, I have begun to read some of Rober Frost's poems for school. I love his poems, they are so simple and not super fancy and hard to understand, so I deicded to do a series of pictures about them. Every week I will draw a picture of the poem that I read. So this is the first one, Birches. This one was what gave me the idea, it was such a pretty poem, that I just had to draw it. ANd that's what gave me the idea. I think I did better on the grass then I usually do, and I like the new (easier) way of doing leaves I discovered. Now I don't have to draw every individual leaf.
Comments and critiques are appreciated.
Thank you! :)

EDIT: Wow! My first feature! I can't believe it! :o Thank you!
EDIT: 90 votes! Thanks guys!
Last edited by Starflower1234 on Mon Feb 06, 2012 8:50 am, edited 2 times in total.
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Re: Swinging on the Birches

Postby CSchicken » Sat Feb 04, 2012 1:21 pm

This is great(: I love it(:
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Re: Swinging on the Birches

Postby Starflower1234 » Sun Feb 05, 2012 3:56 am

THank you. :)
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Re: Swinging on the Birches

Postby Starflower1234 » Sun Feb 05, 2012 12:14 pm

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Re: Swinging on the Birches

Postby Destiny » Sun Feb 05, 2012 6:16 pm

I like how you did the trees very creative!
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Re: Swinging on the Birches

Postby Lil Peep♥ » Sun Feb 05, 2012 7:28 pm

very nice!
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Re: Swinging on the Birches

Postby Ellies » Sun Feb 05, 2012 9:55 pm

Cool congrats on the feature!
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Re: Swinging on the Birches

Postby deleteeeeeeee » Sun Feb 05, 2012 11:15 pm

Very cute. Congratulations on the feature!
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Re: Swinging on the Birches

Postby Starflower1234 » Mon Feb 06, 2012 1:18 am

Wow! Thank you guys. :D
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Re: Swinging on the Birches

Postby Nellas » Mon Feb 06, 2012 2:28 am

This is amazing! I love the carefree, light feeling to it that comes with the bright colors and simplicity, and though it's not crazily detailed like some people I know would make things like this, it's one of my favorite artwork I've seen in a while. Congrats on the feature, as well.
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