Our son Yul draws and paints a lot. These days he wants to paint every single day, especially when he sees my paints. Usually he is painting in his big sketchbooks, but paper can buckle and isn’t great for long term keeping. I also had an idea for working on a painting together. As he is still only a toddler he is very free with painting, and this can make some interesting shapes and colour mixes. I thought about taking what he had done and using it to paint something on top.
This is also a challenge for me as his original artwork is dictating the feel and colour of the final painting. I have to find what works best. For a while I have been wanting to get back into traditional painting and this was the inspiration I needed. I still don’t have much space at the moment in our apartment, but there is just enough space to work on a smaller canvas.
Of course because Yul is my son, I think he is wonderful and creative, especially as he is not yet two years old. Maybe it’s just my own bias but I’ve seen plenty of kids older than him just make a brown mess when painting. But he has never done that and seems to really focus on the colours, while limiting his brush strokes. Yul also loves drawing so much and practices trying to draw shapes for long periods of time. He constantly wants me to draw his dinosaurs, which I do and then he tries to draw them himself, sometimes getting frustrated that he can’t yet draw something that resembles a dinosaur yet. I’m really looking forward to seeing the first time he really draws a dinosaur.
Whatever his interests are later in life I’ll provide a home where he has lots of ways to express his creativity. But for now I think we’ll continue some toddler/mum painting collaborations. And I’ll be continuing to draw dinosaurs over and over for him.
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