Child Artist - Visually Gifted Child!

My son has shown the characteristics of an artistically gifted child.

The characteristics of artistically gifted children which are present in my son are:

~ He is fond of drawing a variety of objects. We all were surprised to see the family portrait he drew when he was just a 4 year old. Very artistically he has illustrated his family in the portrait.

~ He puts depth into drawing, showing planning and good proportion. He draw on a variety of subjects, sometimes they are just game drawings and how a superhero will fight with the demons.If he is drawing his dream house, he will elaborate on the structure and the pipe fittings required as well :)

~ He enjoys art and he will never be sitting idle. He can just take out his drawing sheet and colors and be lost in his drawing.

~ My son shows originality in modes of undertaking art. Most of the time when he draws something, he loves to explain the illustration and why he was using a certain shape and color.

~ Is willing to try out new materials and experiences. He is a keen observer. When he saw me doing decoupage, he wanted to decoupage his BEN10 art work.

~. Pursues art in spare time. He loves watching the art and craft shows and also reading the art and drawing related books.

~ He uses art to express feelings and experiences. He draws lovely cards on mother;s day and on our birthdays and sometimes just to say what he wants, he will take express it through his drawings.

~ He is interested in other people's art, both appreciating it and criticising it. If I do a craft work or just selecting colors for my web templates, he will come and give his ideas and suggestions.

This lens is a showcase of some of his art work which he did when he was just 3-5 years old. Art work which I have preserved to show to his kids one day:)

The good thing about Wimpy the Kid series of books is that there is so much scope for the kid to think visually. This is the Diary cover which he created. You can see the "Diary of an Artist" written on the cover and in the cartoon, there is an artist who is busy drawing. So this was a self portrait of the Child Artist!

My son is always curious about so many things and he keeps asking me questions. Sometimes, I don't know what to answer and in such situations also, my artist child will give me solution. He will say "Mamma,why don't you check out in Google?". So he knows that Google has an answer to all our questions.

I got a gift voucher from Good Housekeeping magazine, thanks to his questions about "How babies are born?" - a very popular question from kids.

For his Value Education class, he was given a simple assignment, he was supposed to write 5 sentences about a picture given in the book. He finished it in a few minutes. When I read the sentences, I got curious. I saw that he had mentioned the age of the two boys shown in the figure. Read the sentences written by my son in the above the figure.

I asked him, how did he know the age of the two boys in the picture. He said.." it is so easy mamma. see how i calculated. i took my scale, and put it over the picture and see.. this boy reaches till 5 in my scale and the other one reaches till 7. you don't know anything mamma".

Children who are gifted in art usually begin young. I could see that my son was very fond of coloring and drawing and most of the time he would be busy drawing something. He loved to look at colored books full of colored images. I have been buying coloring books all the time. Whenever I travel with him, I make sure that I carry 4-5 coloring books and his crayon box so that he can occupied at the airports.

He loves to make shapes with clay and instead of just making shapes, he would try to mix up clay of various colors and see the outcome. And he will keep on mixing and at the end.. he will say.."Mamma, let's buy more play dough as the one i am having has lost all it's color. "