Series Preface
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Painting in Action
Some questions
Visual representation and expression
Drawing and language
Scribbling and babbling
The importance of other people
Painting actions - varying the tempo and direction
Dynamic patterns of action
Representing shape and movement
Painting as patterned dance in space and time
Play
Splattering paint
Summary
2 Actions, Skills and Meaning
Where do representations of movement and objects come from?
Conversations with newborn babies
An emotional space between caregiver and baby
Analysis and discussion
Babies and movement
Vertical arc
Horizontal arc
Push-pull
Reaching and grasping
Horizontal arc and push-pull used in painting
Summary
3 The Beginning of Painting and Drawing
Three dimensions - objects and people
Two dimensions
First painting
Realising that movements make marks
Joel begins to draw and paint
Reasons not causes
Summary
4 Movement into Shape
Separating and combining movement and shapes
A family of shapes
Drawing helps us see and understand
Using colour: contrasts and links
The importance of marks and the spaces between them
Points in space
Traditional drawing media and electronic paint
Covering and hiding
Closed shape
Putting shapes together, taking them apart and putting them together again
Making connections: joining things together
Combining movements and marks: travelling zigzags, waves and travelling loops
Different movements have different results
Combining different drawing actions
Children need to practise and repeat what they know
Going around, going up, going down and going through
Round and round, going up, going down and going through
Summary
5 Seeing and Knowing
Linda in dungarees
Different types of information
Spilling milk while holding beans on toast: what things are, where things are, and how and where they go
Views, sections and surfaces
Summary
6 Space and Time
Three-dimensional constructions: the relationship to two-dimensional work
The ecology of creativity
Showing more complex events in space and time
Movement and time: changes of state and changes of position
Sequences of events: visual narrative
Children learn from other people's pictures
Talking to children about how pictures work
Many different pictures from a few drawing rules
Education and childcare: what we can do to help
Summary
7 The Origin of Literacy: Young Children Learn to Read
B is Ben
Starting to read and write
Summary
8 Children Begin to Show Depth in their Drawings
Looking from a particular point of view, or a variety of points of view
Drawing a stagecoach that moves away from us
The importance of understanding children's thinking
Helping children get on with their drawings
Occlusion and hidden line elimination
Foreshortened planes
Planes, curves and spheres
Visual jokes: the relationship between humour and intellect
Implications of Ben's development
How does the study of Ben compare with studies of average drawing development?
Autistic child artists
Other gifted child artists
Summary
9 Why Do Many Children Give Up Drawing and Painting?
What Can We Do to Help?
Did my children see me painting?
Should one paint or draw for children?
The importance of record-keeping
Painting: the unfolding event
Analysis
Different kinds of realism
Drawings as an interplay of forces rather than the representation of objects
Summary
References
Index