When they didn't take you fishing. Essay: description of a painting by Ksenia Uspenskaya-Kologrivova and an illustration by O

  • 18.05.2024
A story based on the painting by O. Popovich “They didn’t take me fishing” When I was six years old, I and my family went to the village for the summer. My family - dad, mom, older sister Ira, brother Pavlik and I had a great time. The favorite pastime of my dad, older brother Pavlik and me was fishing. Every morning we took fishing rods, bait, backpacks with breakfast and went to the river. That summer I went fishing for the first time, and I really enjoyed fishing. I looked at the float for a long time, imagining the catch. And when it finally bit, I always, before fishing for a fish, wished that I would catch a big one. Mostly small fish caught my fishing rod, but one day I caught the biggest fish - crucian carp. I felt like a hero that day. My dad praised me, and my brother, of course, was jealous. When we returned from fishing, I boasted about my catch to my mother and sister and, hearing words of approval from them, rushed off to play with my friends. I found my bosom friends Seryozha and Petka near a large willow tree, under which there was a tiny pond, more like a puddle, where village geese and ducks swam. The boys sat on the branches of a tree and threw stones into the middle of the pond, competing to see who could throw it farthest. I boasted about my success in fishing and, as an experienced fisherman, began to teach them the secrets of a successful bite. Petka and Seryozhka also got ready to go fishing. But they didn't have fishing rods. I thought that while my dad was resting and my brother was out somewhere with his friends, I could take his fishing rods for a while and then return them after fishing. I wanted to show off my skill to my friends so much that I decided to borrow my dad’s fishing rods for a while without asking. And so, having dug up worms and grabbing fishing rods, we went to the river. Arriving at the place where we usually fished, we settled down on the river bank. I began to explain to the guys how to attach a worm and cast a fishing rod. But, to be honest, my dad helped me with this myself, so I didn’t cope very well. But still, somehow fitting the worm onto the hook, I tried to throw the float. However, dad’s fishing rod was long, and I didn’t calculate the scope: for some reason the fishing line with the hook did not fly towards the water, but got stuck somewhere behind, and, judging by Petka’s cry, the hook got stuck on the back of his T-shirt. We started to untangle the hook, but got tangled in the line and ended up breaking it. I was terribly scared: dad would be seriously angry. But my friends reassured me and said that as soon as my family saw the unusually large catch, no one would be angry with me. And we decided to try with a second fishing rod. This time everything was even worse: trying to throw the fishing line, I swung harder, and the hook along with the fishing line flew somewhere high, into the crown of a tree growing nearby. We couldn’t untangle the fishing line, but the three of us began to pull the fishing rod with all our might, and in the end we broke it in half. I don’t remember well how we walked home. How my comrades consoled me and what advice they gave me. But I was lucky: I slowly put the fishing rods in place, and that evening no one paid attention to them. In the morning, as usual, we went fishing with my dad and brother. I kept thinking about how to tell dad about what happened. But while I was coming up with an explanation, he himself discovered that his fishing gear was damaged. What happened here: the father very quickly found out who was responsible for what happened. He didn’t scold me, but it would have been better if he scolded me! My brother teased me on the sly. I tried to say something in my own defense. We didn’t go fishing that day: dad was repairing his fishing rods. The next morning I woke up. And I saw that my father and brother were not there - they had already gone fishing without waking me up. I quickly got up, got dressed, grabbed my fishing rod and rushed after him. Very quickly I caught up with them. But dad, turning to me, sternly said that they would not take me with them anymore. I roared with insult, but didn’t dare argue. I watched them leave, and through sobs I heard my sister’s words that you should never take another person’s things without asking, because if you break this thing, you can ruin the person’s whole day, as happened yesterday. I remembered this lesson for the rest of my life.

The main character of the famous work of the artist Oleg Popovich “They didn’t take me fishing” is a simple village boy. His father and brother go fishing, and he stays with his sister. It won't be easy to go fishing with a little boy, so they decided to leave him at home. When he grows up, they will definitely take him fishing with them, but for now he is still very small.

So, in the foreground of the picture we see a little boy with a very thoughtful and at the same time sad expression on his face. The artist painted him in full height, he managed to masterfully convey on his canvas all the pain and resentment that the guy experiences, since it’s all written on his face. He is incredibly offended by what happened, because he really wanted to go fishing with his father. And the older brother doesn’t seem to care at all about how his brother feels. He is proud to go fishing with his father.

The master very accurately described the difficult family drama; when performing his work, he used mainly bright tones, which perfectly emphasize the essence of this children's tragedy.

Father goes ahead. He has a backpack behind his back and a fishing rod on his shoulder. The older brother looks back, perhaps he expects this guy to go after them. The boy is so upset that he doesn’t even notice how the chicken is pecking at the bait from his bucket. This whole story is very believable and very life-like, the artist was able to depict it in such a way that it also became eternal. Something similar probably happened to each of us in childhood. Using the play of colors, the artist masterfully conveyed the feelings and moods of all the characters in the canvas.

I really liked this picture, it evokes only positive emotions and sympathy for the main character of the canvas, who was not taken fishing.

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Oleg Popovich is a world-famous artist who drew funny and funny illustrations for children's poems and counting rhymes, and then they were published in magazines for children. In his funny paintings for kids, he chose his own style of depiction, which no one has ever been able to repeat. One of his works for children is called “We Didn’t Take Fishing.”

The main character of the plot is a boy who does not yet go to school at all, and then one day he had a misfortune because he was not taken fishing. But the boy is very upset, since his father and his older brother went fishing together. Of course, the boy hoped until the last minute that he would be lucky this time, and he, too, would be able to go fishing as an adult. But they didn’t take him with them again, and the boy was very upset and offended.

The artist gave his hero a central place in his painting, so the viewer can clearly see that, watching the older men in the family leave for the river bank, he sighs heavily and wipes with his hand those tears that suddenly suddenly rolled into his eyes. But the little hero’s other hand holds a fishing rod, which, as it turns out, he doesn’t need yet.

Next to the boy on the ground lies an overturned small bucket, which, most likely, he threw out of resentment when he found out that he was not being taken fishing. Maybe this was his way of trying to express his indignation and resentment. The baby cried and screamed so loudly that a sister passing by stopped and decided to calm him down a little. She leaned over him and began to say that next time they would also take him fishing with them, and therefore he should not be so upset.

Probably this kid, who looks no more than six years old, has never been fishing before, but he has so often heard stories from his father and brother about what a pleasure it is that he has long dreamed of becoming one of the fishermen himself. The girl who calms him down is already a teenager, she is fourteen years old. And this kid’s older brother, who was already twelve years old, went fishing.

The plot of the artist Oleg Vladimirovich is divided into two parts. The first part is about the main character and his sister, who looks out of the house and tries to console her younger brother, who is sad and offended. And the second part of the plot is the father and older brother. They quickly move towards the fence to go fishing. It's interesting to watch how the eldest son copies his father's movements in order to appear more mature to everyone. Both fishermen are moving quickly and from the father’s expression it is noticeable that he is trying to leave the yard as quickly as possible so that the baby can calm down faster. But my brother doesn’t leave easily, and he also looks back, because he’s trying to leave in such a way that it’s noticeable. But at the same time, he also pointedly does not notice his crying brother.

To emphasize the similarity between father and son, artist Oleg Popovich introduces identical details into his plot. For example, the color of the backpacks of both the man and the young fisherman is green. Avid fishermen hold fishing rods in their hands. The heroes' backpacks go well with the rich color of the grass, a strip of which can be seen near the fence, and the fishermen are walking along it. The fence, which resembles a wattle fence, is also interesting. It is old and gray, every branch in it is described by the author of the picture clearly and in detail.

And in order for his pictorial plot to come to life and become more real, the artist Oleg Popovich introduced a huge number of small, but such significant details into his painting. For example, the viewer is struck by a dense dark cast iron, which someone once hung on the stakes of a wicker fence, and now it reminds the viewer that the entire plot of the painting is reality. On the green grass you can see small flowers of various colors, but in villages and towns the grass in the yard is always full of small bright flowers. And this detail is from the real world. It seems as if the picture is starting to come to life right before your eyes. A small gray sparrow is jumping on this grass. The painter Oleg Popovich captured him at the moment when he decided to take off.

All the paints used by the artist are bright and colorful. The author of the painting used this artistic technique specifically so that his painting could interest not only adults and sensible people, but, above all, also children, because the plot is about them. All primary colors are present in the picture, as well as a huge variety of shades. Here are the fishermen's trousers of an unusual dark red color. The girl's shoes are the same color.

So the painter tried to unite the whole family so that they had something in common. There are other unifying colors in the picture. You can consider gray. This is the color of the small bucket that was thrown by the offended boy - the smallest member of the family. And his older brother, a fisherman, has the same pleasant gray sweater. And the same gray with small shades of brown wattle fence on which the cast iron hangs.

Oleg Popovich's picture is interesting and a little funny, since the boy, despite the fact that he is offended, evokes good feelings both towards him and the older fishermen.

The painting “We Didn’t Take You Fishing” is familiar to all high school students, because in the fifth grade they are asked to write an essay on it. The Russian artist who painted it, Oleg Popovich, devoted his life to creating illustrations for children’s magazines and books, so his canvas is more reminiscent of a simple drawing in “Funny Pictures” or “Murzilka”. Let's take a closer look at the painting in order to understand what the master wanted to say with its help.

Characteristics of the main character

The description of the painting “We Didn’t Take You Fishing” should begin with the characteristics of its main characters. On the canvas the artist depicted four people: one adult and three children. The main attention is drawn to the smallest character - a boy who looks no more than four years old. He stands and cries bitterly, covering his wet, reddened face with his little hand. It immediately becomes clear to the viewer that the little one was hoping to go fishing with his father and older brother, but they did not want to take him with them. The kid hoped to the last that they would take him; he even prepared a fishing rod and a bucket for this purpose and got up early. But dad considered him too small and left him at home under the supervision of his sister. The father is adamant in his decision, and children's tears are not able to pity him. He understands perfectly well that in an hour the little one will forget about his morning tragedy and get carried away by some interesting game.

Other characters

The protagonist's older brother was much luckier. He looks about 12 years old. He goes fishing with his father and is terribly proud of it. The boy carries a fishing rod in front of him, like a precious trophy, and lifts his head high in front of his crying brother. He has a heavy backpack with gear behind him, but he doesn’t feel its weight. Judging by the boy's reaction, his father is taking him fishing for the first time. This is evidenced by the overly solemn appearance of the character. The boy follows his father and even tries to copy his gait.

The children's father is a serious and intelligent man. These qualities of his are very clearly conveyed by the painting “We Didn’t Take You Fishing.” Popovich portrayed the children's father as focused and focused on the baby's hysterics. Dad is completely calm and unperturbed. He remembers whether he took everything with him on fishing, and little things like the whims of his youngest child bother him little. Behind his back he has the same backpack as his eldest son, and in his hands is a yellow shopping bag. The father casually carries the fishing rod on his shoulder.

The fourth heroine of the picture is the boys’ sister. She appears to be about eleven years old. The girl is very similar to her older brother. She is not interested in fishing, but she has to get up early to look after the baby. The girl looks at her brother with mockery. She had no doubt that they wouldn’t take him fishing. But the girl does not want to calm the baby down. Tired of his frequent tantrums, she simply watches him, crossing her arms over her chest and carefreely twirling a flower in her palms. The sister knows: as soon as the elders disappear from the baby, the baby will stop crying.

Additional elements, background and color scheme

When describing Popovich’s painting “They Didn’t Take You Fishing,” you need to pay attention to the objects that surround the characters. To enliven his work, the artist depicted on it an old fence carelessly knocked together from boards, on which the old green grass and small red grass flies in different directions from under the feet of the heroes. In addition to the people, there is another character in the picture - a sparrow. Attracted by the children's cries, he spins around under people's feet, watching the scene with curiosity. Von Popovich left it white. With this approach, he wanted to focus the audience’s attention on what was happening, without distracting it with extraneous details.

Judging by the color scheme, it is immediately clear that the painting “We Didn’t Take You Fishing” was written for children of primary and secondary school age. When creating it, Popovich used bright colors (green, yellow, blue, red), which children really like. There is absolutely no black color in the picture, which makes it cheerful, sunny and positive. And even children's tears cannot spoil this impression.

Painting by Uspenskaya-Kologrivova

Popovich’s drawing is often confused with the painting of the same name by artist Ksenia Uspenskaya-Kologrivova. The plots, as well as the titles, of these two works are completely identical. But if Popovich’s painting resembles a child’s, carelessly drawn drawing, Uspenskaya-Kologrivova’s canvas is written according to all the rules of Russian painting.

Description of the main characters

In the artist’s painting there are still the same characters: the little one, his brother, sister and dad. The kid is not crying, but simply pouted offendedly and turned away from the family members leaving for fishing. He is ready to cry at any moment. In one hand the boy holds a child’s bucket with accumulated worms, and with the other he rubs his ear in confusion.

The older brother and his father go fishing. Dad walks ahead. He carries a backpack behind his back and holds an oar on his shoulder. He entrusted fishing rods and small fishing equipment to his eldest son. The boy follows his father and turns around mockingly, looking at the offended baby. In the brother's eyes there is no sympathy for the little one. He is happy that he is old enough to go fishing. The girl has no sympathy for her little brother either. She looked out of the door of the old dilapidated house and looked at him with a smile. It is clear from everything that the family in which the children are growing up lives in poverty. This impression is enhanced by the gloomy tones that dominate the canvas.

Different eras - same children

In the mid-50s, the painting “We Didn’t Take You Fishing” was painted. Uspenskaya-Kologrivova depicted the gray everyday life of the Soviet village, which had not yet had time to be reborn after the devastating war. In Popovich's drawing the characters are children of the late 80s. They are not familiar with the hardships of war and, apparently, grow up in a quite wealthy family. Popovich, drawing a picture based on the plot of the painting by Uspenskaya-Kologrivova, showed that children of different eras are characterized by the same

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When you see the drawing “We Didn’t Take You Fishing,” created by illustrator Oleg Vladimirovich Popovich, you first of all pay attention to its plot. After all, it is so simple and bright that it is understandable to every viewer, no matter whether it is an adult or a child.

In the illustration we see that on a sunny summer morning, grabbing fishing rods, the father and eldest son went fishing without taking their younger brother with them. Apparently, the boy really wanted to go with them. In bewilderment and frustration, the younger brother turned away from his relatives leaving for the river. And it seems that the little boy does not look after him so that his father and brother do not notice how he, covering his face with his hand, can barely restrain himself, trying not to cry from insult.

Perhaps the day before, the baby was even promised that he would be taken fishing and, having woken up early, he managed to dig up worms and put them in a small tin bucket. But for a little prank, or simply being afraid for a completely dependent child, the father decided to leave him at home.

The abandoned tin bucket and the fishing rod lying nearby indicate how upset the boy is. Now, the things collected for fishing are not needed and only frustrate the baby even more.

The older sister is bending over the boy and it seems that she is calm, although she sympathizes with her brother. Perhaps she quietly consoles the little boy and explains to him that next time he will be old enough to go fishing with his dad.

In Popovich’s illustration, a house or yard is not visible, but from the fence in the background, one can guess that the father and eldest son, loaded with backpacks, have already left the village courtyard and headed to the fishing spot. The artist seems to have divided his drawing into two plans. One tells us about a little boy and his sister, the other depicts an older brother proudly walking behind his father.

If we talk about the general characteristics of Popovich’s sketch, then this illustration very much reminds us of a painting by Ksenia Uspenskaya-Kologrivova, written several decades earlier. They are even called the same - “We didn’t take them fishing.” Popovich’s drawing, like the painting by Uspenskaya-Kologrivova, depicts the same plot and the same characters. It is even quite possible that it was Ksenia Nikolaevna’s painting that inspired children’s illustrator Popovich to create this ironic and subtle pencil sketch. It’s as if he made a retelling that was easier, more modern and understandable, even for the youngest viewers.

The artist tried to convey in his drawing a simple thought intended for children who strive to become adults as quickly as possible. The idea that you shouldn’t be upset about minor troubles and reasonable prohibitions from older family members. After all, there are many such interesting events and affairs ahead that the grievances that seemed serious and big in childhood, as the years pass, will certainly turn into small, sweet, and even a little funny memories.

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Oleg Vladimirovich Popovich is an illustrator. His drawings have appeared in various publications and books for children. One of the most famous was the drawing (graphics) “They didn’t take me fishing.” In name and theme, it coincides with the famous painting (painting) by the Voronezh artist Ksenia Nikolaevna Uspenskaya-Kologrivova. That painting is in the Tretyakov Gallery and is also called “They didn’t take me fishing.”

Because of the name, confusion often arises; many believe that Popovich is the author of the painting. But he is the author of the drawing. The painting was created in 1955, and the drawing is several decades later. Even the clothes of the heroes speak about this. Although the picture shows it very schematically, it is clear that these are more modern things.

A drawing and a painting have a lot in common, but there are also differences. For example, there are four heroes here and there, one of the heroes is a girl. But in the picture the older boy and his dad are going fishing, and in the drawing there are two older boys. One is a teenager, and the second is an older guy, perhaps a student who came on vacation.

The view of the author of the drawing, Popovich, is ironic, cheerful, the work makes you smile. So, before us is a small scene: two older boys go fishing, but they don’t take the baby with them, although he has already taken out a fishing rod. The baby bursts into tears, but the fishermen do not pay attention to him. The girl tries to console her little brother. A few strokes with colored pencils - and the scene, drawn with the artist’s steady hand, is ready.

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The painting “We Didn’t Take You Fishing” is familiar to all high school students, because in the fifth grade they are asked to write an essay on it. The Russian artist who painted it, Oleg Popovich, devoted his life to creating illustrations for children’s magazines and books, so his canvas is more reminiscent of a simple drawing in “Funny Pictures” or “Murzilka”. Let's take a closer look at the painting in order to understand what the master wanted to say with its help.

The description of the painting “We Didn’t Take You Fishing” should begin with the characteristics of its main characters. On the canvas the artist depicted four people: one adult and three children. The main attention is drawn to the smallest character - a boy who looks no more than four years old. He stands and cries bitterly, covering his wet, reddened face with his little hand. It immediately becomes clear to the viewer that the little one was hoping to go fishing with his father and older brother, but they did not want to take him with them. The kid hoped to the last that they would take him; he even prepared a fishing rod and a bucket for this purpose and got up early. But dad considered him too small and left him at home under the supervision of his sister. The father is adamant in his decision, and children's tears are not able to pity him. He understands perfectly well that in an hour the little one will forget about his morning tragedy and get carried away by some interesting game.

The protagonist's older brother was much luckier. He looks about 12 years old. He goes fishing with his father and is terribly proud of it. The boy carries a fishing rod in front of him, like a precious trophy, and lifts his head high in front of his crying brother. He has a heavy backpack with gear behind him, but he doesn’t feel its weight. Judging by the boy's reaction, his father is taking him fishing for the first time. This is evidenced by the overly solemn appearance of the character. The boy follows his father and even tries to copy his gait.

The children's father is a serious and intelligent man. These qualities of his are very clearly conveyed by the painting “We Didn’t Take You Fishing.” Popovich portrayed the children's father as focused and oblivious to the baby's tantrum. Dad is completely calm and unperturbed. He remembers whether he took everything with him on fishing, and little things like the whims of his youngest child bother him little. Behind his back he has the same backpack as his eldest son, and in his hands is a yellow shopping bag. The father casually carries the fishing rod on his shoulder.

The fourth heroine of the picture is the boys' sister. She appears to be about eleven years old. The girl is very similar to her older brother. She is not interested in fishing, but she has to get up early to look after the baby. The girl looks at her brother with mockery. She had no doubt that they wouldn’t take him fishing. But the girl does not want to calm the baby down. Tired of his frequent tantrums, she simply watches him, crossing her arms over her chest and carefreely twirling a flower in her palms. The sister knows: as soon as the elders disappear from sight, the baby will stop crying.

When describing Popovich’s painting “They Didn’t Take You Fishing,” you need to pay attention to the objects that surround the characters. To enliven his work, the artist depicted on it an old fence carelessly put together from boards, on which an old clay pot flaunts. From under the heroes’ feet, green grass and small red and blue flowers scatter in different directions. In addition to people, there is another character in the picture - a sparrow. Attracted by the children's cries, he spins around under people's feet, watching the scene with curiosity. Von Popovich left it white. With this approach, he wanted to focus the audience’s attention on what was happening, without distracting it with extraneous details.

Judging by the color scheme, it is immediately clear that the painting “We Didn’t Take You Fishing” was written for children of primary and secondary school age. When creating it, Popovich used bright colors (green, yellow, blue, red), which children really like. There is absolutely no black color in the picture, which makes it cheerful, sunny and positive. And even children's tears cannot spoil this impression.

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Looking at Oleg Vladimirovich Popovich’s painting “We Didn’t Take You Fishing,” you involuntarily remember the illustrations on the pages of children’s magazines, as well as books for children. This is not surprising: O. V. Popovich is a famous illustrator who works on the design of publications intended for children.

Characteristic image style, lively, memorable; a little funny, perhaps in some ways a little similar to caricatures. You can just imagine how the author, working on a drawing, smiles, and the smile is kind, warm, like a ray of sunshine.

Of course, the artist loves his heroes, rejoices at their successes, and sympathizes with their mistakes and failures. The plot of the picture will be clear to every viewer, even those who cannot yet read or do not know what the author called the picture. The father and eldest son went fishing together, but did not take the little boy with them. Obviously, he hoped to go with them until the last minute. Maybe they even promised to take him with them if he behaved well, as adults often promise to children, and then they didn’t take him as punishment for some minor offense or simply under the pretext that he was still small.

It can be assumed that the mother forbade taking the boy fishing, fearing that something bad might happen to the child: what if the father and brother became so keen on fishing that at some point they would stop closely monitoring the baby. One way or another, we see that the boy is very upset. He looks after his father and brother as they leave, wiping his tears with his hand. In his other hand the boy holds a fishing rod, which he did not need. An overturned bucket is lying in the grass nearby: probably, a distressed child dropped it or even threw it on purpose to express his protest and indignation.

A girl stands next to the baby - probably her older sister. She leaned towards the child with sympathy; one can assume that she is persuading him not to cry and not to be upset so much - if he behaves well, next time he will definitely be taken fishing. It can be assumed that the youngest boy is about five or six years old, and the older boy and girl are approximately twelve to fourteen years old.

It is difficult to say what the boy is most upset about - the fact that he will not go fishing, or the fact that he was deprived of the opportunity to feel like an adult. Most likely, he has never been fishing before, so he can hardly imagine the pleasure that can be obtained from this activity. But the example of his father and brother, their conversations about fishing, of course, had long interested the kid. After all, everything unfamiliar, especially those related to the world of adults, always attracts children.

In the composition of the picture, two groups of characters can be distinguished: a father with his eldest son and a sister with his younger brother. The father and eldest son walk towards the fence: we see neither the house nor the gate, but it is obvious that the characters in the picture are about to leave the yard. The artist depicted his characters in motion. It is interesting to note an interesting detail - the movements of both, father and son, are almost the same. It can be assumed that the boy copies his father’s behavior, trying to look mature and serious, a real fisherman. Both do not pay attention to the baby's indignation. However, from the expressions on their faces, it can be assumed that the father is doing this so that the baby will stop crying faster, or is simply absorbed in thoughts about the upcoming fishing. The brother defiantly ignores the behavior of the younger brother, carried away by imitating his father. But the father smiles good-naturedly, looking ahead, and his eldest son defiantly turned away from the baby, raising his chin.

The commonality of the compositional group “father - eldest son” is emphasized by such details as identical green backpacks, although the boy has a slightly smaller backpack, and also by the fact that both are carrying fishing rods. The father carries two fishing rods on his shoulder, the son holds the fishing rod vertically. Although the baby also has a fishing rod in his hands, it does not stand out from the general background, since he lowered it down.

The other group consists of a girl and a baby. If you look carefully at the drawing, this group can easily be fit into an imaginary triangle, in the lower right corner of which there will be a bucket thrown by the baby. The girl looks at the baby. She is probably consoling him, but the expression on her face suggests that she considers the reason for his tears to be frivolous. She does not try to caress the upset child; on the contrary, she folds her arms over her chest and carefreely twirls a flower in her fingers. If she calms the child, it is more so that he does not interfere with his crying.

Not least important for creating a holistic composition are such details as the outlines of the fence, clear in the right side of the corner and blurred in the distance, as well as the strip of grass along which the characters depicted by the artist walk and stand. In order to enliven the image and make it more realistic, the artist also used a number of small but expressive details: an inverted cast iron pot on one of the fence stakes, childishly drawn red and blue flowers in the grass, and a sparrow about to take off.

The artist used bright colors, which is quite justified if you keep in mind that the painting is intended for children. On it we can easily find four primary colors: green, yellow, red and blue. In addition to them, the artist also used other colors: different shades of reddish-brown (the father's and the little boy's trousers, the father's boots, the girl's shoes and the cast iron on the fence), gray (the older boy's sweater and bucket), grayish-brown (the fence).

As noted, father and son both have green backpacks; a lighter tone is used to depict grass. In the picture, the bag the father is carrying in his hands and the baby’s T-shirt with narrow red stripes are yellow. The girl's red blouse and the older boy's slippers; Father's cap has a red side. The older boy's jeans are bright blue; The girl's skirt is a darker shade. The hair of the man and the boys is approximately the same shade, dark brown, but in the boys it has a slightly noticeable reddish tint; The girl has red hair. It should be noted that the artist did not add tone to the faces; he only outlined the blush on the cheeks. The main background is a white sheet of paper.