Sunday, October 02, 2005

Look Out Picasso

Many children begin drawing representational drawings around 3 or so. Wrigley loves art, but has little interest in drawing (not messy enough), so we haven't seen any representational drawings. When children do start drawing instead of scribbling, the standard progression is to over time start with a head, then begin to add limbs and then a body. This is an example from Wikipedia.
Smiling person (combined head and body) age 4½

Here is Wrigley's very first representational drawing.

It's a snow car. The circles are the doors, the orange circles the wheels and the orange lines around the wheels are tracks, of course.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

my niece rowan likes to draw perfect little straight lines all in a row, like this: |||||||||||||. she does it with a look of very intense concentration on her face. well, this is what she liked to draw in january when i visited. she's 3 now, so when she comes in december i'll have to have her draw me a picture and see what she comes up with.

and, duh! it's totally a snowcar.