2. Exploration: motions and the marks they make Three year olds and beginners start by exploring the materials.They mix all the colors together and then discover they can make various kinds of lines and patches of color, mixed and unmixed.
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20. Representation of simple images Five, six and seven year olds use simple images of people,animals, vehicles,plants buildings. They begin to have a narrative that is about themselves and their immediate experiences, lived or imagined .
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31. Representation of richer symbols: eight to10 year olds Subject: less focused on themselves, more with others, they relate to the experiences of people living in other places and times People: images are more defined, have joints that bend,usually without muscle or sense of bone structure, careful consideration to clothing Space: consideration of objects in the distance,format expands to occupy the whole paper Color: carefully considered as an important fact
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Editor's Notes
We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.
When children represent their experiences in their paintings they continue to use simple basic shapes that they have learned in their designing stage and early representations, and they put them together to make people, houses, animals, vehicles and various plants. They often include many aspects of an experience and sometimes suggest the environment or location of the event. While they have not developed a sense of depth or space, objects that rest on the earth can be located along the baseline, and the sky and sun can be located on the top. Color is chosen from their feelings and emotions, while some symbols, like the sun, are naturalistic.
What could this piece of fabric be in your painting?
No people, or buildings etc. Shapes mixed colors and lines. Some have straight lines. Some repeat shapes
