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Thursday 12 January 2012

A cute bird


This is my first attempt at drawing a bird - Great Tit.

My source - Thanks Bob!


A Bird Came Down the Walk
Emily Dickinson

A bird came down the walk: 
He did not know I saw; 
He bit an angle-worm in halves 
And ate the fellow, raw.

And then he drank a dew 
From a convenient grass, 
And then hopped sidewise to the wall 
To let a beetle pass.

He glanced with rapid eyes 
That hurried all abroad,-- 
They looked like frightened beads, I thought; 
He stirred his velvet head

Like one in danger; cautious, 
I offered him a crumb, 
And he unrolled his feathers 
And rowed him softer home

Than oars divide the ocean, 
Too silver for a seam, 
Or butterflies, off banks of noon, 
Leap, plashless, as they swim.



25 comments:

  1. wow lovely :)
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  2. i love the drawing Ruby! when enlarged the feather looks real, wow, great job! :-)

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  3. Great drawing! It´s very nice, and it remembers me a photo I made once.
    Greetings from Asturias, Spain.

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  4. If this is your first attempt a drawing birds you had better keep at it. Well done. This bird shows that it's alert and ready for action.

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  5. Magnificent Great Tit-well done.And what a marvelous poem.

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  6. I wish I had even half of your talent.

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  7. I wish I could draw. A Great....Great Tit.

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  8. Heck of a nice drawing, Ruby. I wish I had that sort of talent. I can't draw very well at all.

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  9. By the way, thank you very much for linking me! I've done the same for you, and happy to do so - you're my first "India" link! :-)

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  10. º°❤ Gostei da pintura e do poema.
    Bom fim de semana!
    Beijinhos.
    Brasil
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    º° ✿ ✿⊱╮

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  11. A lovely image of one of my favourite garden birds.. many thanks for sharing ..xx

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  12. Nicely done. Now I'm inspired to bust out the art supplies and sketch something or do a water color of my back yard.

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  13. your work looks happy, Ruby!


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  14. Thanks everyone for your encouraging comments.

    Stephen, paint away!!

    Suldog - Its an honor to be on your links :) Thanks!!

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  15. I'd be very happy if I could draw anything half as well as that. The list of things for which I have no talent compared with my fellow bloggers gets longer every day! Please don't tell me that you have written a piece of music for the piano or I'll get really depressed!

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  16. @GB - LOL!! thanks for your lovely comment. Unfortunately, I have never had any musical instrument lessons although I did take up south Indian classical singing lessons a long time ago.

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  17. This is really good work Ruby....nice done.

    Greetings, Joop

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  18. Hello Ruby,

    a beautiful drawing of a koolmeesje, but your poem it is really beautiful.

    Thank you for sharing eht.

    Kind regards, Helma

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  19. Rubyyyyy LOVELY

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  20. I really like this drawing... :)

    Regards,
    Angad Achappa
    Indian Wildlife Photography

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