If you don't plan to let your child become a painter, is it necessary to learn to draw?
To tell the truth, learning to draw is not just necessary, but it can improve children's expression ability.
Why? Because painting is an innate hobby of every child. For a long time, especially when the child's words are not up to par, painting is the child's self-expression. This is often overlooked by many of us.
Children express emotions through drawing
For example, children will express emotions through shape, and psychologists have found that children will express different emotions by changing the appearance of their lips. For example, it is often used to express happiness with a line bent upwards, and when expressing sadness, the line of the mouth will bend downwards. Children also use eyebrows to depict mood, such as semicircles to express happiness and diagonal eyebrows to express anger. There are also the most common tears to express sadness.
When children are younger, their language skills are poor, and they cannot express what they see, hear, and think in precise language. But it conveys information by drawing.
Painting is the presentation of children's memories
There have been a large number of studies showing that children who like to draw can provide more information when expressing what they see. For the amount of information presented by things and events, especially the amount of information described by things, there is clear feedback when recounting the occurrence process of events.
Painting is the embodiment of children's imagination and observation
Whether it is a child or an adult, the human brain's imagination of things that have not been perceived is not out of thin air, it is extracted from the relevant content of things that have been perceived, and can only be formed through processing.
For example, the water is blue and the grass is green, but children sometimes use colors against the norm, such as painting flowers green, and children will express imaginary things through their own preferences. There is nothing wrong with this, don't interfere rudely.
Painting will improve a child's IQ
Many scientists have found that children who have undergone long-term systematic drawing training in early childhood have higher visual memory, comprehension and spatial combination skills than children with the same verbal IQ.
The benefits of these deep influences when I was a child are not to mention, mastering some painting skills, even if you don't usually need them, when you show your skills, it will bring a lot of joy.
About the talent for painting
There may be some friends who say that some children have a talent for painting, but our children do not have it, and they can't draw well.
There are different accounts of the talent for painting.
The teacher said: Every child has a talent for painting, depending on whether it is stimulated or not. And children's paintings should not be evaluated with good or bad, good is not standard.
For example, some children, even if they draw simple lines with a pen, have their own ideas under the appearance that adults can't understand, and they can't simply and rudely say that it is not good to draw. Moreover, adults think that painting well, many times it is a painted image, a painted image, through the technical training can basically be achieved, does not explain anything. Some children do not draw things that are not within the cognitive range, but they are accustomed to using colors, lines, and compositions to express their inner feelings. Sometimes the children who do not draw well are stimulated by their enthusiasm for creation and talent for painting.
If the talent for painting needs to be stimulated, what should we do when we are enlightened at home? Combined with the "Psychology of Children's Painting" and the views of Shuhua Art Teacher, I summarized the following suggestions: The following four "don'ts" are pits that many guardians have stepped on, so in the early art education of children, they should be avoided as much as possible.
The misunderstanding of art education
Do not give coloring books and stick figures
There are many such coloring books and stick figures sold on the market. Coloring and stick figure drawing are available for older children, but not recommended for preschoolers. Coloring stick figures can not give children a real drawing experience, children should be more in the expression of their own experience and feelings, which is what we emphasized above, if only imitate stick figures, limited to coloring, let their skills improve at the same time, imagination and creativity will be imprisoned.
Don't teach children how to draw
A child's first painting is usually a person. To be precise, it is a "tadpole person", and then it will slowly become a tadpole person with arms, a tadpole person with ears, and a tadpole person with hair and expression. Maybe adults will be surprised and confused after seeing it, we can easily find that the proportion of the child's drawing is not right, there is no torso, etc., and may think of correcting the child. However, please respect your child's process.
After all, art is not directly related to image reproduction, such as tadpole people, but only a simple reproduction of the human figure. All cognitive development requires a process, and we cannot cross the line.
Do not hinder children from doodling
I remember that David Jun also wrote many stories of celebrity children painting in the past, and some of the children's incomprehensible behaviors may not be making trouble, but expressing, exploring the world.
When children are 2-4 years old, there is no clear intention to paint the graffiti period, they are curious about the world, instinctively go around scribbling. Of course, the ensuing clean-up work is also a headache, so as far as possible to guide the child to draw on the paper, or install a wall film on the wall, giving the child enough space to play.
Do not deny what the child draws
"What are you painting, nothing like" For children's childish paintings, we may casually issue such a denial.
However, if we deny our children's paintings again and again, they will only be pressured and resist the matter of drawing. What's more serious is that it will dampen the child's self-confidence, which is something we don't want to see.
What can parents do in painting enlightenment
When children have not yet reached the age of painting class, how to give children painting enlightenment at home, so as to effectively stimulate children's painting talents and make them like to draw?
The teacher said a few points, listened to the child's voice, accompanied to give a sense of security, encouraged to give more confidence, which is in the child's parenting process, all aspects of the need for parents to do.
In the initiation of painting, the following two points will be more important:
01
Cultivate children's aesthetics from an early age
Newborn children, there is no difference in aesthetics, but in the process of growing up day by day, through the influence of the people around them and the environment, they gradually form their own aesthetics. Because of economic and energy reasons, it is understandable to have to be in the aesthetic aspect of the child, but do not feel that the child has no aesthetics, so just casually dress the child ugly. If the child likes a very beautiful thing, because of economic reasons can not buy temporarily, it is best not to tell the child, that thing is too ugly, we do not, the better way is to recognize its beauty, and then tell the child, the future together more efforts, you can have those beautiful.
▲ David trainee works
02
Look more and broaden your child's horizons
If conditions permit, go to nature, art galleries, and art galleries to see more, to observe, to experience. The magic of natural landscapes can bring children a lot of inspiration about beauty, and the details of many creatures will also make children have stronger expressiveness in artistic expression. If parents are too busy to go out, babies can read more picture books and works of art, so that children can learn the aesthetic power of "eye-catching".
▲ David Art takes the children out of the classroom, into the art museum for study, into the outdoors for sketching, let the imagination bloom freely