TEENSY SMILES

A while ago I posted about Max's drawings, and how they fit into the developmental scheme of things. He had been drawing a few faces, and one freakishly realistic koala face which was an accidental koala, but a koala nevertheless. Since I did that post, Max hasn't done one face, and I had been wondering whether I had made the whole thing up. Until last week when he went on a two day face drawing extravaganza.

Page after page of B1 faces drawn in blue chalk (and for that I apologise because light blue chalk is not very web friendly), each one described to us what he was drawing, and why. Each one with it's own expression, it's own naivety, it's own charm. I've kept them all (there are literally sheets of them) and will take them to be copied and reduced so I can use them somehow, because these form such a wonderful vignette into Max's mind (no, I probably wouldn't go too deeply into that, because there's a lot of trains and fire engines and schemes for how to push every button in mummy and daddy in there at the moment). What I really like, is that every single one of them is 'happy' and smiling, or so it seems.

These two are my favourites. The one on the left because he did more detail, scribbled the eyes in and made them look shifty and gave the mouth a big wide opening. The one on the right is apparently Thomas The Tank Engine in a tunnel. Obvious really.

Comments

[myra]

Those are great! I too have been enjoying my son's drawings and thinking of how to use them in craft projects.

[Nichola]

Wonderful! I can't wait until Mia is drawing faces, at the moment she just draws squiggles, on the walls and furniture!

[pyglet]

they are great!!

[Donna]

That is a wonderful rendition of Thomas, considering Max's age! I'd be a proud Mama, too :)

[Emily]

Those little smiley faces are awesome. About a year ago my son went from scribbles to his first "guy". I was thrilled! I get ten or more pictures a day and I save most of them. I would love to figure out a way to use them in a quilt. Invest in some plastic storage bins, you're going to need them!! :)

[karen]

those faces are awsome.

yesterday my daughter did some drawings too, it is so rare, she's not into drawing...so I decided to keep the best one to make me a momorable T-shirt ;o)

[julia fc]

I like that they're so very different. Ordinary children tend to just make the same one over and over again. Clearly, Max is a genius.

[Jennifer]

Funny, my son did that too. Drew detailed faces when he was quite young, and then...nothing. No lovely faces --instead he drew lots of geometric things, letters of the alphabet and robots, etc. Now he's 6 1/2 and has begun doing some lovely things. I just hung a nice beach scene with sunset on the wall.

[kelly]

Those are incredible! Brynne isn't doing faces yet, but she's really enjoying collaborative drawing at the moment - one of us will start the drawing and the other will finish it off. I think she loves the element of surprise...