C’s Art from School

They send home C’s artwork from school periodically. It’s not always interesting, but sometimes I can see he’s really been concentrating on something. It’s great.

It’s hard to tell what orientation a piece had when he drew it. But I like the little curcle at the top, and the dot in it.

From my art albums:

“After the child has started making these complex compositions, a common next step is drawing a circle with rays (figure 6a) and soon after, radials from a point (figure 6b). […] In these early works, we often see a certain type of circular composition similar to compositions seen throughout the world’s cultures. We use the Sanskrit word ”mandala“ to describe this. In Sanskrit this word means ”sacred circle“ and is generally represented by circles with figures or lines in or around it. Just as the mandala can be seen in cultures across the world, so all children produce mandalas. The child begins drawing primitive mandalas around three years of age, when the scribbles turn into discrete shapes.”

I wonder how he started this one. I love the dark spot at the top with the line down from it, all the way to the bottom. I thought it was neat how he made the small shape in the center and colored it in with different colors.

Very nice composition and excellent use of white space! (Really.)

He folded the edges and wrote on the folds on this side, too. He also made a small circle in one part.

One of my favorites. Lots of life, interesting centers and boundaries (in Christopher-Alexander-speak).

He’s so cool.

C has always loved to trace his hand, ever since he first did it with Mercedes.

I can’t tell if C did this sideways, making C-shapes, or if it was oriented like this. I think it was interesting, anyway, and he folded the corners in and wrote on the folds.