Make a mistake and don't rush to criticize the child

My nephew Lele loves to draw very much, and whenever he has time, he will lie on the small table and smear it. My brother and sister-in-law happily bought him several large boxes of the best watercolor pens and oil paint sticks, but they never saw him come up with a decent work. In the eyes of my brother and sister-in-law, almost every picture is a pile of various pigments, colorful but unknown. Despite this, the brother and sister-in-law were not in a hurry at all, thinking: The child is still young, let him practice slowly, sooner or later there will be a chance. Unexpectedly, a "portrait of a mother" of Lele shattered the good wishes of his brother and sister-in-law.

On this day, our whole family was watching TV at home, LeLe said that he wanted to paint a portrait of his mother, and he also learned to paint like a painter, let his sister-in-law dress up and sit on the sofa in the living room and not move, and he pulled away the sketching posture on the side. The sister-in-law endured the pride and honestly became a model for her son. It was hard to wait for Le Le to finish painting, and my brother took it to admire it first, only to see him nod his head and shout "good" loudly, and Le's quickly diverged.

But what about the sister-in-law? It's okay not to look at this picture, when I saw the anger that followed, I couldn't help but ask Lele: "I just look like this?" Is my mouth that big? She snapped the painting on the table, and then her sister-in-law turned angrily to her schadenfreude brother and said, "What are you laughing at!" ”

I took the painting over and took a closer look, it turned out that the mother in Lele's painting had a large round face, eyes painted on the brain door, a hair with only a few hairs left, the color of the face was blue and green, a big red mouth was particularly prominent, the slender curved eyebrows that the sister-in-law had always been proud of were gone, and the ears were gone, in short, the look was strange, not to mention how ugly it was.

Le Le originally thought that he had painted his mother particularly beautifully, and was waiting for adults to praise himself, but he did not expect that his mother would be so angry, so frightened that he quickly slipped into his hut to build blocks, and did not dare to come out for half a day.

In my opinion, my sister-in-law is really wrong to blame Lele.

Children's small muscle mobility is still relatively poor, wrist and hand movements are not flexible, and it is natural to draw the image of the painting crooked and strange.

In the use of color, young children like to choose a strong contrast of high-intensity colors, they feel that the bright colors that they look good, and smear them on the drawing paper at will, as to whether these big reds and greens are consistent with the real colors, they don't care. And this is precisely the expression of the true heart of young children.

Of course, the most unsatisfactory thing about my mother was that her eyebrows and ears were gone, but her mouth was surprisingly large, almost like a monster. This brings us to the characteristics of young children's imagination. Although on the surface it seems that LeLe is sketching, in fact, he is expressing his impression of his mother and his imagination on the drawing paper, and the sketching here is only a playful form for Lele, and has no real meaning. In the eyes of the child, the most vivid are the human mouth and eyes, because they are often active, so the child will certainly not miss them, and the eyebrows and ears (especially the latter), almost invisible to see what they do, it is not surprising to omit them.

The great German philosopher Hegel said: The most outstanding artistic skill is imagination. Lele painted his mother's mouth large and prominent, which should be regarded as the use of exaggerated techniques, which is the embodiment of imagination and creativity, has parents and friends ever had such a thing? We might as well be proud to have such a treasure!