I'm curious if drawing is like talking (where kids can go from nothing to full sentences)?
DS3 makes fairly artistic looking sculptures for his age but he refuses to draw or paint. He got excited about painting a few weeks ago, spent 2 minutes at it and decided "the toes were too long"... he couldn't make his brush do what he wanted and he gave up a few minutes into it, sobbed for a lot longer than he painted. He is SO hard on himself.
I can't figure out whether I should keep encouraging him to mess around with paint or crayons etc, or whether I should just avoid mentioning it for some months. Every experience with it just seems to turn him off of it more. Unlike Play-doh, where he seems to be pretty happy with how his things turn out.
To bring it back to the thread -- DS's sculptures are generally as realistic as he can make them.
Polly
