February 2012: Drawing cranes, vehicles and a cartoon character

Artwork by S: 5 years 5 months

Drawing cranes (15.2.12)

Drawing various types of vehicles

Drawing a cartoon character (26.2.12)

15.2.12 - Drawing buildings, cars and boat

Artwork by S: 5 years 5 months

He drew these buildings, houses, even one on stilts, and some cars and a boat.

Below are videos of S drawing this picture

3.1.12 - Tracing from laptop

My posts are a bit jumbled up because I had neglected this blog for some time, and only now starting to work on scanning and organising their many pieces of artwork strewn all over the house and in my computer.

This picture of S tracing from the laptop is from 2 years ago, when he was 5.5 years old. He would decide what picture he wanted to draw, ask me to google some images. He would decide on the picture and trace it. He only needed to trace the same picture one or twice, after that he would commit them to memory and automatically knows how to draw them freehand. He only drew from the laptop for only a short period of time, and after a few times, he stopped tracing. If he needs to draw with reference, he would just look up the image in a book or on the internet and draw by looking at the images. No more tracing.

"Army tank in the forest" in watercolour

28 Dec 2011
Artwork by S: 5 years 3 months

This is the first time we are doing painting in the park. I loaned him my artists watercolour paints, palette and paintbrush. I find that it makes a whole lot of difference in the result of his painting when he uses professional materials.

He drew an army tank in the forest

I verbally guided him on how to paint. This is using wet-on-wet watercolour. He painted the sky by painting water all over the sky area, then dabbing blue paint on top.  

Dabbing green paint for leaves. I taught him to observe the trees in the park. He was surprised to see that the trees have specks of orange, yellow and light green leaves, instead of just being flat green. This is the first time he is painting using this method of dabbing. It reminds me of the pointilism method of painting. He seems to have a flair for it. I will teach him pointilism when he is older.  

He seems to have fairly good control of the brush

"Army tank in the forest" in watercolour, by S (5 years 3 months)

4.12.11 - Drawing a castle

Artwork by S: 5 years 3 months


S drew something that looks like a castle.

Castle by S (5 years 3 months)

Video:

1.12.11 - Drawing car and bus

The boys decided to draw some vehicles. They both drew 3D vehicles from memory, with no reference to any pictures.

Bus drawn by E (3 years 7 months) 

Car drawn by S (5 years 3 months)

29.11.11 - Drawing robots

Artwork by E: 3 years 7 months
Artwork by S: 5 years 2 months

The boys drew robots after watching something about robots on The Magic School Bus CD.

Robot drawn by S

Robot drawn by E

25.11.11 - Drawing ships

Artwork by S: 5 years 2 months

S drew some ships from memory on the whiteboard.

23.11.11 - Drawing people, flowers and cars

Artwork by E: 3 years 7 months
Artwork by S: 5 years 2 months

The boys started to draw on the whiteboard and blackboard, after a long while of leaving it idle.

Drawn by S. Those are rain falling from the clouds. 

S drew the watering can on the left, watering the flowers, and the heart shapes too. E drew the flowers in blue and the people. 

E drew the sun and S drew the vehicle. 

2.11.11 - Drawing a map

Artwork by S: 5 years 2 months

S drew a map and a gondola (that he saw at Petrosains) and the direction the gondola should take.

A gondola

He said that the gondola should follow the direction of the line. He drew a circle and ripples of water which represents a lake.