Polly- there's nothing wrong with sculptures, if he's happy making them then just let him explore. I'm sure he'll eventually become interested in other materials as he gets older but it looks like he's found his niche.
DD paints pretty realistically (ok, well, for an almost 2 year old). We've had a dinosaur painting that included a head, tail, and four feet (all which she explained while painting it). She also likes drawing babies (they actually look pretty similar to when she asks me to draw babies for her so they're all swaddled up with heads, closed eyes and hats). She'll also try and write some letters. s Beyond that she draws a lot of little marks on her papers. It's kind of funny, she hasn't scribbled since well under 1. Rather it's like she's testing out the color to see what it looks like so it looks like a bunch of spots on the paper. My mom was actually an artist and I'm not half bad myself so I'm interested to see if she's gotten the "artist gene" too (both my mom and I are good at portraits not so much with abstract painting).
I wonder if DD's drawing are more realistically because she's just copying what I'm doing or if that's just the way my family tends to think?
