children's art

drawing and painting

view
The aim of lessons is to let children experience and discover while painting and drawing that there are many ways to see and express something. In scrawly drawings it is obvious that things have no definite shape and meaning; the child seeks and finds several possibilities to shape its ideas.

The viewer often has difficulty with that, since he views the child's impressions/images with those of his own. But often it is not recognized that this ability to seek and find solutions quickly dries up when the adult starts telling the child that little chickens should be coloured yellow and that the tree is bigger than the house. The ability to seek, examine, change, and so imagine can be preserved and developed. Letting the cild experience and see how different things can be in various situations, letting the child play with this phenomenon. In the way children experience their world much more is possible than it iseems on first thoughts. Offer the child the possiblity to really project itself into situations, by making these tangible and perceptible. A feature of working expressively is that it is possible to have many solutions to one and the same problem. To teach the child to get and have an eye for that enriches it. 

 

development

By comparing the series of drawings a child's personal development becomes
very clear.
In his development Michiel shows various lines, one drawing is higly
decorative, or impressive, while the next suddenly shows strangly nervous
movements. This changing occurs constanly. From the images it appears that
the way of viewing is strongly influenced by that subject indicates. Where
quietness and vagueness predominate this becomes visible in the image. When
the involvement evokes intense emotions then on the hand the elaboration is
very passionate.