Drawing as it Develops

The series Drawing as it Develops features a month-by-month, illustrated study of my daughter Amie’s drawings:

  1. First Drawings of a Very Young Child: Amie at 16 months
  2. Circles, and Coloring Books (a Mistake?): Amie at 18 months
  3. More Circles, Graphs, and post hoc naming: Amie at 18-19 months
  4. Naming and Representation: Amie at 20 months
  5. Explosion of Color: Amie at 20-21 months
  6. How Toddlers see our Bodies: Amie at 23-24 months
  7. [blog entry] Amie’s First Tadpole Drawings: Amie at 2 years 4 months
  8. [blog entry] Tadpoles’ Mouths Move Outside Face: Amie at 2 years 5 months
  9. [blog entry] Tadpoles Also Have Hands and Feet: Amie at 2 years 5 months
  10. [blog entry] The End of the Tadpoles?: Amie at 2 years 5 months
  11. [blog entry] Tadpoles, trees, a bodied and four-legged deer: Amie at 2 years 7 months
  12. [blog entry] End ofTadpoles (?) and Signing her Name: Amie at 2 years 7 months

These are complemented by:

  1. Children’s Tadpole Drawings: Some Theory
  2. A growing Bibliography of scientific research on the topic
  3. And be sure not to miss Tips and Resources for Drawing with Very Young Children.

And check out some blog entries about more drawing experiments:

  1. Setting a drawing example for Amie at 26 months

You can leave comments here.