Selective Focus: Quinn Montgomery

This week, we feature the youngest Selective Focus artist so far, Quinn Montgomery. She has been drawing caricatures of celebrities. Many are from shows that she most likely can’t watch for quite awhile. We get some background info from her dad, Derek Montgomery (previously featured in Selective Focus). For now, you can keep up with Quinn’s art career via her dad’s Instagram Feed. Be sure to check the second picture in each Instagram post to see the reference material with the finished drawing.

DM: I started documenting our daughter Quinn’s drawings as just a way to remember some of the things she was doing at her age, which is four years old. I found her style of drawing–large head with The Nightmare Before Christmas’ Jack Skellington-length arms and legs–as really humorous and fun. She’s always been very perceptive and expressive and the drawings are just an extension of that. I work from home and Quinn would bring me drawings every day of stuff she saw around the house or outside to cheer me up because apparently I needed that? I don’t know, but I always appreciated seeing her take on the world out here in Lakeside.

Instagram 46 likes, 4 comments - dcmontgomery on April 15, 2019: "I’ll be bringing to you a series of drawings by my four year old daughter Quinn. She loves drawing people. The first creation is the King of the North, @gameofthrones and Winterfell’s Jon Snow. #gameofthrones #jonsnow #kingofthenorth #winterfell #quinnillustrations #childrensdrawing #stickfigure #kids #kidsart". instagram.com

One day I was rewatching Game of Thrones in preparation for the final season when I thought it would be fun to see her take on Jon Snow. I chose the iconic picture of him standing stoic in a driving blizzard, printed it out and asked Quinn to draw Jon Snow. I think she nailed it. From the hair to the flat expression, it’s still one of my favorites that she has done. From there, it was just whatever popped into my or her head. Peter Griffin, Barf from Space Balls, Gary Busey, Steve from Stranger Things, Walter White. A lot of it stemmed from what I was watching that day or maybe from an article I read online or what Quinn was learning in school or at church. After Easter, she went so far as to draw family members dead on the cross. That one did not make it onto Instagram.

Instagram 40 likes, 0 comments - dcmontgomery on April 25, 2019: "Today, Quinn woke up telling me she wanted to take a break from drawing famous people from the 80s and instead wanted to go with something a little more contemporary. So with that, Quinn brings to you, the Queen of Arendelle, @disneyfrozen’s Queen Elsa. In the upper left is the snowflake. Below the snowflake is a football for some reason and on the right is a mountain that “goes so so high.” #quinnart #disneyfrozen #elsa #frozen #childrensdrawings #kidsofinstagram #kidart #frozen2 #disneydrawing #disneydrawings". instagram.com Instagram 74 likes, 13 comments - dcmontgomery on April 17, 2019: "Tonight’s drawing from Quinn is @thegarybusey. Because why not? #quinnart #garybusey #kidart #quinnillustrations #kidsofinstagram #kidsdrawing #thumbsup #childrensdrawings". instagram.com Instagram 38 likes, 2 comments - dcmontgomery on July 8, 2019: "I’ve been quiet, but Quinn has been busy. In celebration of a show she can’t watch, I told her about the awesomeness that is Steve from @strangerthingstv and how season three just debuted. She can watch it when she is 10 we decided, but that didn’t phase her. She’s game to draw anything and today Steve was on the palette. #strangerthings #strangerthingsteve #kidart #quinnillustrations #kidsofinstagram #childrensdrawings #kidsdrawings #80skids #cutespikedbat". instagram.com Instagram 41 likes, 8 comments - dcmontgomery on April 29, 2019: "WARNING: GoT spoiler within! I told Quinn about the amazing @gameofthrones episode last night and decided to print a picture of Arya Stark for her to draw today. She even drew the dagger that did in the night king. A first for Quinn in this drawing are shoes and I guess knives. 🤷‍♂️ #quinnart #gameofthrones #aryastark #arya #nightking #childrensdrawings #kidsofinstagram #kidart #gameofthronesedits #artistsoninstagram". instagram.com

I’ll probably keep documenting these for awhile. She keeps asking me for more people and things to draw and I know she has a few super fans among my friends. Plus it’ll keep cheering me up during those long days working at home alone.

Instagram 47 likes, 4 comments - dcmontgomery on May 12, 2019: "Today, Quinn celebrates Mother’s Day by celebrating all the moms. “Even Uncle Jake is in there.” All people without hair are the dads, uncles and grandpas. #quinnart #unclejake #kidsart #childrensdrawing #mothersday #allthemoms #kids_of_our_world #moms". instagram.com Instagram 51 likes, 3 comments - dcmontgomery on April 18, 2019: "The next installment from Quinn is Peter Griffin from @familyguyfox. She even got the iconic chin. #quinnart #familyguy #petergriffin #kidart #childrensdrawing #kidsofinstagram #moma". instagram.com