My two year old granddaughter drew this a week ago. It is her family. I expect her mother and father are the two figures in the top left because they have bodies and their size is important to her. The other two in the top tier may be her brother and herself, but who are the five others? What fascinates me is that a two year old is already drawing portraits. The rest of the body isn’t very interesting to her yet; it’s the faces that matter because, at this age, faces are where she obtains most of her information about life. Most of her people have smiles, but one has a turned down mouth. Is this an accident or a conscious stroke of the crayon? And whose is the little face floating at the top? It’s both a miracle and a mystery that such a very young child already has the concept of drawing a credible representation of her family, don’t you think? In fact, it proves that no matter how young or how old we are, no matter how skillful as artists, there is an innate ability in all of us to draw a portrait.


Jon Amdall February 19, 2018
That’s actually really impressive for a two year old
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heather previn February 19, 2018
I agree!
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