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Crayon Drawings Are Pretty
ElJeffe
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So I mentioned to my five year old, Maddie, that there was a forum where people posted the pretty pictures they made. Maddie loves to draw, and she loves to show off her work, and she asked me to post some of her drawings here. Yes, I know you're not supposed to post the works of other people, but she is adorable and has me wrapped around her finger.
So.
Here we have a picture of Maddie in what she considers a very pretty dress. She likes flowers.
The next three works are part of a series that she did all in a row. While she makes really cute drawings of kitties and puppies and princesses, I really like her more abstract work, where she just kinda dicks around with shape and color. She first started with a rainbow, though she subverted the normal color arrangement and instead had the gradation occur along the length of the rainbow, rather than from outside to inside. (Note: when she explained this to me, she did not actually use the word "subverted.")
Next she colored some thick, vertical lines, and drew some hearts over them:
Last is my favorite. Just a series of color squiggles dropping down demarcated regions, with her name in rainbow colors on the right side. Maddie would point out that the colors of her name and of the left-most column are in order, while the ones in the middle are not. She thought it would be pretty if they were different.
Thank you for playing along. You have a made a little five year old girl very happy.
So.
Here we have a picture of Maddie in what she considers a very pretty dress. She likes flowers.
The next three works are part of a series that she did all in a row. While she makes really cute drawings of kitties and puppies and princesses, I really like her more abstract work, where she just kinda dicks around with shape and color. She first started with a rainbow, though she subverted the normal color arrangement and instead had the gradation occur along the length of the rainbow, rather than from outside to inside. (Note: when she explained this to me, she did not actually use the word "subverted.")
Next she colored some thick, vertical lines, and drew some hearts over them:
Last is my favorite. Just a series of color squiggles dropping down demarcated regions, with her name in rainbow colors on the right side. Maddie would point out that the colors of her name and of the left-most column are in order, while the ones in the middle are not. She thought it would be pretty if they were different.
Thank you for playing along. You have a made a little five year old girl very happy.
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Clearly, she is well schooled in EM wavelengths.
And yes, I never thought Indigo was valid color entry anyway. I commend her for leaving it out.
Actually, she really likes indigo (I think she mostly likes saying the name), but she stopped using it in her rainbows a few months ago. Not sure why.
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Maddie drew a skyscraper once. It was in the shape of a heart. All the windows were pink.
She's such a girl.
Here I did a draw over for you to show you what I mean. I put arrows all over the place to clarify.
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I wouldn't necessarily call it pure concept and no object, at this age children are still building upon the imagery and symbols they use so it is still objective but the conceptual side is more available it is very abstract and less concerned with physical reality than with representation. It's pretty cool, even though the forms are rather primitive and unrefined, the concepts and abstraction are rather advanced - most people have to relearn how to do this stuff as they get older.
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A la Howard Gardner.
Also, I like pretty pictures.
It's rather old (Circa 1984), but deals entirely with creative development and tries to really establish a definition for "what is creativity, and what defines art". I don't think he really gives an answer, but he presents enough information for you to kind of make your own decisions. It's a good read.
I tried this. I'm too lazy to scan it in right now, but the results were interesting. She basically drew exactly what the cup looked like, with an ellipse for the top and a curved bottom. The lines weren't the straightest, but she did pretty much exactly recreate the form of the cup. She also darkened in the bottom, where the thickened glass made it appear less transparent (it was a glass cup). And she drew the vertical lines around the cup, as well. Ah, hell, I'll just scan it in anyway:
She also got the vertical lines around the side of the cup. She does have pretty good attention to detail.
The interesting part was when, afterwards, she decided the glass should contain some strawberry-banana juice. She drew a flat line representing the top edge of the liquid, then colored it in (somewhat sloppily - she can easily stay in the lines when she wants to, but she generally lacks the patience).
That is pretty impressive! I almost want to see more experiments.
(Have her draw this and this and this and...)