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How do you think, is there anything in common between a baby and an artist the impressionist? It appears there is and a lot of. It includes freedom of self-expression, interest to experimentation and discoveries, love to color, vivacity and boldness of a picture. Really, a baby selflessly draws the most inconceivable lines, puts on a sheet the most incredible in color and form spots... The main thing for him is the process, not the result. Though the result always admires and pleases too. And with all this going on, the brightest, strongest and the most creative emotions flow. They create the attitude to the world and to the baby himself.
The earlier we give paint to a baby, the better! Some scientists and teachers even, without joking, suggest starting at the age of 6-8 months. They give a sponge or a soft cloth to the baby. And after he seizes and plays himself for a while, they take the baby’s hand, dip a sponge into paint and draw together - splash on a sheet of a paper or on old wall-papers. In a while the kid does the same things himself with great pleasure.
At the age 1 to 2 years kids cannot picture subjects yet. Researchers call this period pre-graphic. Activity is characterized by manipulations with a brush or a pencil. During the process of such actions lines, strokes, points there occasionally appear on a sheet. Gradually images change: from strokes the child passes to continuous circular movements (spirals, circles of different forms and the sizes appear on a sheet), aspires to fill all sheet. The first scrawls have zigzag character.
At the age of a year and a half it is possible to expand a palette of art tools and paints. Show the child, that color traces on a paper can be also left by a cotton stick and by the blunt end of a pencil, by a fluffy brush and even by a finger. You should only dip them into paint and then knock or splash on a paper. But do not hurry up with innovations. Let the kid master one way (it can take a week or even couple of months). Gradually show also new ways of the image - the vertical, horizontal and inclined lines, closed contours and helicoid forms. These pictures the child tries to associate with subjects already known to him by the form, color. First attempts to name the image appear. Therefore it is necessarily to play up and fill with sense everything that appears on a sheet: the sun shines, the cloud has come and has covered all the sky, it is raining and pools appear…
Pre-graphic period is very important for graphic activity development.
For kids of the age beween 2 and 3 the contour in color painting does not play a role of the stop-line, as it does for the elder children. They know an image, get pleased and start to draw more likely on the basis of a picture, than in its limits. It reveals very individually. One child draws large color spots like artists do, other follows a contour like graphic artists, and the third puts small specks, strips or strokes.
Coloring pictures in drawing-books with bright gouache paints greatly fascinates kids. They are not limited to the verges of a contour; freely exceeds the bounds (chicken on a grass, the sea under a ship). They create their own plot, start to play (move a picture along a table as if a train goes or a bug creeps) and represent rumbling, buzz and hissing with onomatopoeia...
Certainly, firstly you should show a child how to perform such actions ("The chicken has gone to walk, let’s draw grass and flowers. Feed a chicken - draw kernels or a warm"). If you don’t stop your child in time ("Good baby – what a beautiful ship has turned out, let’s show it to the grandmother ") or don’t switch his attention to another picture (" Oh, oh, here the chicken cries, it has frozen, let’s help it - we shall draw a yellow dress"), children will cover the whole sheet with color spots so it would be impossible to discern the initial picture.
For all kids a face – eyes and smile – plays a significant role even in black-and-white pictures. They pick out these details first of all and often leave an oval not colored (a kite, a snail, a small fish) like the person’ face. At this age sexual interests and preferences already become apparent. So, boys at once would choose a ship or a train. Girls would prefer chickens, small fishes, flowers. And, certainly, all without exception like the sun very much. Mums draw it to children many times, and children always with great pleasure paint it in yellow, red, orange, pink colors and finish to draw rays.
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Topic: Features of children’s drawing
