Little Picasso part ll

I have a budding artist at home --- my almost-5 year old son. If I exhaust all the toys or if I don't have anything handy to keep him occupied, all I need is a blank paper and a pencil. And, my little Picasso will start exploring his world. I had posted about the beginning of his skills here. This is an extension of that post right after 2 years.


Here's posting some of the scrabbles from recent past:


1. Life-cycle of a butterfly (without any suggestions from me)   

2. Hand-made greeting card for Dad's birthday (with suggestions from me ;)

 

3. I liked the fan and the chair here.  

 

4. A pirate sailing boat. (You noticed that danger sign?)

5. Illustration for the "Elephant and the tailor" story. Red highlights by me. By the way, in case you don't know already, he lovesssss elephants. 

6.  Too much happening --- I see a submarine/fish, a flying alien, pyramids, and so on.

 7. The crowded world --- Drawing by Sid, labels by me. (The showstopper - that nude girl in the lower-right corner :D)

 8. A fairy princess. I want to show this to his future girl-friend/wife when he grows up.

 9. That's his to-do list.

1. Buy shoes for me.
2. Play in the play area of our apartment.
3. Eat dinner. (That's chapati and curry.)

 10. This is the latest obsession. Pulimurugan. If you didn't get this picture, I will help to explain. That's Pulimurugan with his knife cutting a rope tied between two trees.

 

That's it for now. Hope to update more in the coming years.  

My little Picaso

This is to record my little one’s affinity towards arts. 

Starting from where he got this in his genes --- my great-grandfather was a painting-teacher. I remember seeing dozens of colorful divine paintings of Gods (both known and unknown Gods) hanging in the hallway of my maternal tharavadu (home).  I inherited just an iota of his talent, which I could have honed with regular practice but didn’t. Not that I didn’t like it; my fate didn’t have it. ;) I LOVE sketching. But, I think I am not very good with colors. It still remains an unexplored passion. So you see, it is quite obvious that I would love my son to sketch his heart out. Also, his paternal aunt likes drawing.

Sid is gifted with long fingers, which are believed to be artistic fingers. He had a firm grip of pens/pencils even before he was two. He has never actually scribbled frantically. I remember the first scribbles were soft-running dots, which is quite unusual for a toddler. Or so, I think. :D

He loves elephants and he always used to request me to draw elephants for him. So, obviously that’s the first thing he has ever tried to make. No flowers, no trees, no suns. I know, quite a difficult task for a beginner. I started introducing shapes to him. And he did grasp them. But the quest for an elephant shape was still on. And, finally one day, these happened:

 
And, after some days,

Gradually, he started exploring faces. So, one masterpiece is posted below. In this, he explained to me, one is him and one is amma (yep, that's me).

These days, he tries to draw various things (including sun :)). He colors not-so-perfectly, but still, has some interest. However, he has also started to write a few alphabets provided we give him dots to join. Sample of his first few alphabets:

So, here’s praying to God that if he has it in him, please inspire him to boost it up. <Fingers crossed>.

Update: 10 March, 2015

Another one from Sid. This is Sid himself, it seems. You see those big ears??? :)