Drawing with Rich Davis

A few years ago, someone posted a link to Rich Davis' blog, Draw With Rich. If I recall correctly, people were looking for some art ideas. I have followed his blog ever since, and have enjoyed drawing all the little things he posts. Recently, he started posting some step-by-step drawing instructions for different buildings. He's developing a new game. The idea is to give the instructions to children and see how well they can follow along, without much coaching. This week, we drew the first one in the series, the barn. We worked from this picture:

And here are our drawings! 

I have no idea why Isaac decided to draw a big swirl, or write "DOG." However, I thought he did pretty well on his barn for a boy of 6 who mostly refuses to hold a pencil. Of course, you could see it much better before he got ahold of the silver Sharpie, but I digress. The girls both had fun with their drawings, too, and you can certainly tell that Abbie took more care with hers than the rest of us. I was thinking, "This was supposed to be a quick, fun start to our morning, not take you all day, dear child..." That's all right, though. We're looking forward to next week's drawing.