Swan Mother with Cygnets and the Ugly Duckling

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Today there are two new drawings and one will be posted here and another on the next post. 

This post's drawing is of one of my favorite birds... the swan. 

 Swan Mother with Cygnets

(& the Ugly Duckling)

Swans mate for life.  The male swan will even help incubate the eggs.  This drawing shows a mother swan with her cygnets and a young cygnet... who may be lost and seems to be playing the role of The Ugly Duckling.  

The Ugly Duckling is a great fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen.  It is a story that hits home to many of us who were bullied as children.  The Ugly Duckling hatches from an egg that somehow ended up in the nest of a duck.  He is rejected and etc. but eventually finds out that he is a swan... the most beautiful of all birds.  In the Disney cartoon version of the story the Ugly Duckling is adopted by a kind mother swan... or maybe she is his mother to begin with.  

NOTE:  The neck of an adult swan is actually a bit thinner than the neck is portrayed in this drawing. I drew her this way to facilitate coloring by children.  This drawing can be found, in printable form, under the Animals and Birds button.  Scroll to the bottom of the drop-down menu because new drawings are at the bottom of the lists.