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March 17, 2006
My child's drawings
Children learn with support and own motivation.
My boy always liked to draw but initially his drawings were not that good. He didn't like to draw in colour and the teachers "penalised" him, partially, for this.
My brother-in-law and sis-in-law took a different approach. Both of them are highly engaged in animation movies. Frequently, my boy sat besides them and just observed when they drew animations (interesting, words change from drawing and colouring to animation, probably because it sounds more professional - imagine Pixar as Drawing Studio instead of Animation Studio).
That was when he was about 5 years old. Sometimes, a bit older already, he sat besides them and drew his own pictures. Sometimes, they helped him, holding his hand etc. (I am helpless in drawings - even so this is a limited belief, according to NLP, but I can live with it, since it doesn't handicap my personal development!).
Now he is eight and he draws increasingly nicer pictures. Recently, we bought him Cartoon Animation books - wow, pretty expensive, and ever since, he is drawing and drawing. Not directly copying by putting the paper onto the book!!
He looks at the pictures in the books and copies them onto his page. I believe they are great. Forget about what the earlier teachers said when she asked him to draw in colour. This shows that there is a "life outside school".
What happened now is that my wife is on a yoga retreat over the weekend, and so he followed me to the office. Started to draw pictures and showed them to some of my colleagues. My boss' husband saw them and he actually bought four pictures from him - and, my boy was out of his socks.
Take a look at the combined pic. For the husband, he has separated the individual smaller drawings into one big drawing each.
Posted by Andreas at March 17, 2006 12:48 PM
Comments
Hey, you kid can draw, man! :)
Posted by: james at March 17, 2006 10:29 PM
The ostrich is mighty cute! And that's a great guy of a boss's husband. I am sure this will be an inspiration to your boy.
Posted by: lilian at March 17, 2006 02:50 PM