The G's drawings and paintings have always looked like this...
With a furrowed brow deep in concentration the tip of his tongue darting in and out of his mouth, he sets down to paint windstorms, spark plugs dripping and grampo's eyebrows.
And while no two drawings ever look the same he pays no mind that his classmates have been moving on and turning those wild crazy scribbles into faces and stick figure bodies.
Should I worry he's not drawing faces yet? I ask his teacher
That he chooses not to paint anymore? Its a milestone right that at three they should start drawing circles and faces and move from the abstract to the concrete?
He has... she tells me, you just need to shift your perspective to see it. The G prefers to create things that are three dimensional. The faces, arms and body parts that he makes are not flat on the page but objects he can hold and manipulate. Just look at this creature he made out of legos, the arm can shake hands. How about this man he made out of building materials.
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A week later she hands me an article by Brenda Engel "Considering Children's Art"
Preschool (ages 2-5)
scribbles, loops, zigzags, wavy lines, jabs
chance forms or shapes
trying out different effects
the meaning is in the act itself, not in the results or product
Shift your perspective and you can see it... my new mantra
6 comments:
love it. shifting the lens just a bit to see all it reveals. love it.
I love this new mantra. Good lessons for all of us!
David's still 100% into the abstract. It's mesmerizing when you think about it. The world is all to concrete too soon. Let him enjoy his own eye :).
this is some good advice, mamacita. i was just thinking this SAME thing about my boy who "only scribbles." maybe i need to take a harder look.
Don't worry mamacita, abstract artists end up making more money!
Looks just like my son's art! We've got it framed in cheap frames and hanging on wall. Go modern art!
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