20 18-08-27 10:47:08

Text/Ye Dan

Every child has his own unique creativity, and learning to draw must be understood and guided according to the children's different ages. The characteristics of children's paintings are different at different ages. The following is the best age to learn painting for your reference.

1 how old is the most suitable for children to learn painting?

Children aged 2~3. At this age, children's visual perception develops rapidly, but their hand-foot coordination ability is not perfect, so they often can't hold the tools in their hands stably. Parents can simply teach their children how to hold a pen, prepare some thick drawing paper and crayons of various colors, or even use finger painting pigments directly without a brush, so that children can dip the non-toxic and easy-to-clean finger painting pigments in their hands and then doodle on the drawing paper. It is particularly important to note that pencils and pens are too sharp and hard, which are easy to hurt children. Parents should try not to choose them. 2-year-old children have been able to express their emotions and ideas through graffiti purposefully, and parents should seize the best time to draw.

2 Several stages of children's art education

1, graffiti period (2-4 years old)

Children in this period have no clear intention of painting, and painting is just an activity to satisfy curiosity. As soon as they pick up the pen (which can be understood as anything that can be drawn), they instinctively scribble everywhere, drawing all kinds of circles, roads and other things that adults can't understand. At this time, careful parents will find that some lines they draw are very attractive and will never be drawn.

So I often give them pens and paper and let them draw freely. In order to let the children stretch freely on the paper and have bolder movements, I gave them bigger pens and colors that are not easy to flow. At this time, we should try our best to mobilize their enthusiasm for color, guide them to draw from the unconscious to the hazy subconscious, and encourage them to draw whatever color they like. For children in this period, there is no need to force them to draw anything. They haven't entered the modeling stage yet, so there's no need to rush.

How to create and cultivate children's interest in painting in a timely manner, induce them to see the tangible from the invisible, let them play at will, and even be vivid and immersive in painting activities is an art teacher's "soft kung fu". The emphasis here is on "soft kungfu" rather than "hard kungfu", that is, art teachers should devote enthusiasm, encourage children's childlike innocence to draw, do everything possible to cultivate their interest in drawing, and let them gradually sprout a confidence that I can draw. This is a kind of "spiritual teaching", which requires absolute patience to produce results.

2. Symbolic period (about 3 -5 years old)

When children can say "what is this and what is that", it means that they have entered the symbolic period. In this period, children's painting will not be based on real things, but only on the degree of induction of things in their hearts. Tutoring children in this period to draw, teachers should try not to demonstrate drawing, let alone influence them with their own prejudices.

For example, don't emphasize to children that the sun must be a red round block with light, the trunk must be brown, the leaves must be green and so on. Because children will develop the habit of conceptualization by following this picture. It is best to bring children into life and nature, so that they can feel personally and draw vivid feelings. At this time, they can be instructed to paint with gouache pigments and oil pastels, so that they can give full play to their color potential.

3. Golden Age (5 years old-12 years old)

Almost every child has a strong interest in painting in this period, which is the period that can best reflect children's painting, sculpture or technological intelligence, so it is called the golden age of children's art.

Children in this period are not used to drawing things one by one, but like to draw their ideal people and things. Painting is their best game. They often paint while reading, dancing and dancing. They can combine things in different time and space, different angles and different depths on the same picture. If you have the habit of appreciating modernist paintings, you will find that many techniques created by modernist masters draw nutrients from children's paintings.

When teaching children in this period to draw, we must face up to the view that "children are not adults". The world in the eyes of children is not exactly the same as that in the eyes of adults. In this precious period, teachers should try their best to create good conditions for them to use various materials and tools, such as carving, labor, cutting and pasting, printing and dyeing, painting and so on. You can also guide them to do the creation of waste utilization (for example, make domestic garbage such as plastic bottles, broken cartons and disposable paper cups into handicrafts). The works they create often surprise adults.

4. Transition period (about 13 years old)

Children in this period have begun to enter adolescence and are in the transitional stage from children to adults. Children's painting in this period began to break away from the innocence of childhood and deliberately pursued adult techniques, but failed to reach the performance ability of adults. At this time, if the academic painting training method is imposed on them prematurely, their imagination and creativity will gradually disappear, which is quite a pity. Children's imagination and creativity are great wealth of mankind! In my opinion, the theme of tutoring children's painting in this period must be extensive, free and free, cultivate children's ability of sketching and memorizing painting, make children rich in creative consciousness and stimulate their strong interest in art.

3. What do children learn to draw?

The best time to teach children to draw is after the age of 6. Children's paintings are completely different from those of adults. The painting that adults are interested in and appreciate is completely different from the painting behavior of children.

one-year-old

Painting begins with being naughty. It's not so much painting as the trajectory of the hand. Graffiti is a very interesting thing for children in this period. They will scream with joy when the hand holding the pen leaves a mark on the paper with a wave of his hand. They can understand the fun of this change, which will also become the driving force for children to love painting.

With the improvement of crawling ability, the painting ability of children in this period has also improved. They will leave small marks on the paper, such as tadpoles and earthworms. During this period, parents should let their children doodle fully.

At the age of one and a half, the child's hand began to move back and forth around the elbow, and the mark of painting was mainly graffiti.

After one and a half years old, children's paintings will develop from continuous big circles to continuous small circles.

Parents in this period can simply ask their children's paintings and let them tell what they draw. Instead of interrupting the child's enthusiasm for painting, ask after the child has finished painting.

Parents should prepare the environment for pen and paper and painting, and try to let their children do other recreational activities, such as sand, water and mud. It will be of great help to your child's painting.

Children in this period have no distinction between colors, just pick a color he likes and draw a big piece of paper.

Two years old

After the age of two, with the development of eye-hand coordination, children began to draw separated lines and closed circles. At the same time, children began to be able to predict and judge the direction, length and direction of the lines they drew, and their consciousness of what they wanted to draw began to sprout.

After the age of two, children begin to explain what they draw with their own impressions of things, and these explanations will change constantly. The richer the impression of various things in a child's mind, the more capable he is to imagine a circle as various things.

Children in this period painted mostly continuous circles. Please don't teach children to draw any images, otherwise they will hesitate to draw or even draw their own. Let the children draw continuous circles and doodle at will.

Children in this period still don't have much difference in color, only give one color.

Let children read more picture books, and don't worry that children will be bound by imitating picture books, because children will imitate images when they are about eight years old, and children in this period will not.

Please indicate the date and description of your child's work as a meaningful record of your child's growth.

three years old

When the child reached the age of three, he consciously began to draw from scratch. Before painting, he had decided what to paint, and the children began to paint purposefully.

After three and a half years old, children love to put themselves in situational games and tell their stories with pictures composed of many circles.

Children in this period are developing with each passing day. They have been able to draw large and small circles and horizontal and vertical lines freely, and then start painting after deciding what to draw in advance. Children give meaning and stories to these lines and circles.

Parents, please record the dates and stories of these paintings and keep them.

Around the age of three, the heads with dots and horizontal lines on the circle began to appear in children's paintings. At the same time, things were personified, and children's ability to give these images different identities was the further development of language ability. Under this appearance, parents should never question why children don't draw ears, hands and feet. Just listen to their stories patiently and happily.

Four years old

At the age of four, children began to draw hands and feet on the basis of drawing their heads, forming a so-called head-foot portrait. At this time, don't remind or teach children how to draw, because doing so will break the natural development process of children's understanding of things, and at the same time deprive children of their interest in understanding things, even dampen their enthusiasm for understanding the world, and hinder the most important learning and development ability of children in their growth.

At the age of four, children can describe the theme and content of painting through language, and combine the impressions in their minds to draw a decent image in the eyes of adults. What children want to draw is the fact that only children can understand, that is, their true feelings. And draw the most impressive part big and exaggerated.

From the age of four and a half, children like to draw all kinds of images on paper. The same images will appear repeatedly, and there will be expressions lined up like catalogues. If you listen to the children's explanations, you will find that in their minds, these things are all related and have stories.

Moreover, after the age of four and a half, children's paintings began to be divided into regions, such as home and outside, inside and outside the ship, which is a manifestation of the gradual improvement of children's organizational expression ability.

Four-year-olds still don't need to deliberately use colors and professors' images, which will only be bound by colors and images and will not have a sense of freedom. It is best to draw with monochrome thick pen and large drawing paper. If children want to use more colors, give them up to six colors and try different kinds of brushes, such as markers, thick pencils, crayons and ballpoint pens.

Putting things in front of your eyes and letting children draw while watching, that is, sketching, is not suitable for children before the age of six, so avoid letting children draw while watching. Children in this period describe their feelings according to the facts they are aware of. Sketch and observation, it is best to put it after six to nine years old.

Please try to provide children with various forms of entertainment and listen to their descriptions of this painting as much as possible.

be five (years old)

By the age of five, children have gradually understood the characteristics of various things and their relationships. So I won't draw my hand directly from the head like a cephalopod portrait painted by a child before the age of four, and I understand that all the characters in the painting should wear clothes. Nevertheless, children's paintings are still missing in the eyes of adults, but don't make fun of their paintings.

The characteristics of children from four to eight years old are not what they see, but what they know, are interested in and care about.

After five and a half years old, children gradually become interested in the relationships between things and try to express these relationships with paintings. The most obvious feature is that children begin to use the bottom line in painting. At this time, the child began to transition from a four-year-old catalog list to a two-dimensional flat world based on the baseline.

During this period, the best way to appreciate children's works is to listen to their stories about the relationship between paintings. Among children