Mia's artwork: Monster
Sadly Mia has been more and more influenced by other people's drawings, throwing complete wobblies when I won't draw her a barbie or a pony. I've noticed her flowers are now typical (teacher influenced) stems with leaves and flowers - not nearly as magical as they were when she drew them with no outside influence. Nevertheless she continues to delight me with the occasional stunning thing, and at the moment it's all to do with letters and words. She's experimenting with them all the time and I just love the graphic appeal of them - like this one of a monster in all the letters.
posted by linda @ 1:48 pm
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4 Comments:
STUNNING DRAWING!!!!! And I am so proud of you for NOT giving in by drawing a Barbie etc. Just keep on telling her that her ouma (who is an EXPERT) says it is much nicer to see HER own drawings than other people's drawings that all look the same. And, if you wanted the Barbie to look like the real Barbie you would take a photograph, but an artist has a licence to be DIFFERENT which a camera can't be. Perhaps she is old enough to understand that.
Explain to her that UNIQUENESS is preferred from an artist of her standing, coming from an arty ouma, arty mother, arty aunt, arty great great uncle etc.
From: Jeanne Welsh
Well, the art teachers say it better, but from my point of view it is really lovely.
xxx
From: Victor Honey
Its wonderful - and look at the way the letters fit into the negative shapes. Look at the way the bottom stroke of the E (L dot E at bottom left) stops before the downstroke of the D - wonderful! This type of extreme placement sensitivity that children show in their work is one of the things I respond to most. The way the curly Y.fits into its space or the U/Y amongst the hearts. Its the sort of thing that Klee ate his heart out for - until he realised that the children do it without teaching. In his "beginning of the twentieth century mind" this devalued what we regard as the great strength of what children do.
It’s divine and what a superb mother you have created. Lots of love, Helen.
Obviously she wrote this to me, your mother.
mom/ouma/mother-in-law
Thank you for the great feedback on Mia's drawings. I hope to extract some beauties from Josh soon!
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