It is a nice day, How I love to look outside the window And I say, Look at the birds chirping So nice that, when you hear them You just say – It’s so nice.
I live in the big crowded city of Bengaluru in south India. My parents were careful to settle in the southern part of the city, which is comparatively less crowded and close to the biggest green space of Bengaluru, the Bannerghetta national park.
Living here helps us to visit green areas of the city easily and also allows us to see and hear many birds from our balcony.
Our balcony overlooks a small farm that has cows and attracts lots of birds. I love to sit in the balcony and watch the various movements on the farm. Till some time back monkeys used to come on to our balconies. I was scared of them then, but now I miss them.
My parents were careful to send me to schools which allow lots of free drawing, handwork, and creative work. I go to a Waldorf school, and it has given me a lot of motivation and help to imagine, draw, paint and be creative although I am only in the second grade. My favorite time in school is the Arts and Handwork classes – we get to work with paint, colours, beeswax, molding, and knitting. I also enjoy the language classes where we experiment with free speech and role play. Our teachers tell us colourful stories and we sing songs and rhymes in English and various Indian languages. All of these activities give me the inspiration to draw, paint and write.
I love gardens and flowers. The small flower beds in school, the plants in the balcony that my mother maintains all are very nice.
A flower is nice
A flower is the best
A flower is the one,
that shows you the best…
I like painting and drawing different things, I have not decided what I like best. Sometimes I paint animals, my father talks about wildlife all the time and I too started liking animals. I like looking through the books that my father has with pictures of animals. I also paint things at home and sceneries. I use watercolors, acrylic and sometimes oil pastels. I love to do wet on wet painting.
It is nice to see the smile on my parents face when I show them a new painting or writing and when I gift them a card I have hand made for their birthdays, anniversary or festivals.
From when I was very small, I have loved beaches. Our family goes to some beach for a vacation every year. This year my parents have promised me that they will take me to a nice beach and get lots of paint and paper so that I can sit and paint there. I am very excited!
