Both Adrian and Anna enjoying drawing and painting with me. However, Anna has really taken to watercolours and insists on painting at "grampa's painting desk".
This one above is a "spotted elephant"; coloured after she drew it in pencil. She insisted that this elephant has a short trunk ( head on RH side) and didn't want to make it longer.
This was her first water colour using "real paper" and Grampa's paints; she just wanted to see what she could do.
These are from a joint session with both Anna and Adrian. Top left is Anna's 2 laughing giraffes, bottom right is Anna's "storm clouds", and she added, that the purple looks like sunset!
Top right is Adrian's: there is a red giraffe kicking out at a shark (in grey); there is also a red hazelnut tree; bottom left is one that Adrian did for Nora.
Drawing and painting with the kids, who are so uninhibited reminds me of a story from the book "drawing on the right side of the brain" by Betty Edwards. Her 4 year old niece asked her what she taught; Betty responded that she taught art to adults. There was a long pause and the little girl said "..why, did they forget how?".
This one above is a "spotted elephant"; coloured after she drew it in pencil. She insisted that this elephant has a short trunk ( head on RH side) and didn't want to make it longer.
This was her first water colour using "real paper" and Grampa's paints; she just wanted to see what she could do.
These are from a joint session with both Anna and Adrian. Top left is Anna's 2 laughing giraffes, bottom right is Anna's "storm clouds", and she added, that the purple looks like sunset!
Top right is Adrian's: there is a red giraffe kicking out at a shark (in grey); there is also a red hazelnut tree; bottom left is one that Adrian did for Nora.
Drawing and painting with the kids, who are so uninhibited reminds me of a story from the book "drawing on the right side of the brain" by Betty Edwards. Her 4 year old niece asked her what she taught; Betty responded that she taught art to adults. There was a long pause and the little girl said "..why, did they forget how?".
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