Child's Play

I have chosen to talk about the mind of a child because I find them very interesting. My interest lies within the way they explain something or interpret certain comments they hear.
People forget that a child has the potential to learn at a fast rate due to the fact that they are going through an important stage of their life. As this is something they still have a part of from being a baby, for example this is the reason a baby can learn to speak its first word or watch enough people walking to imitate it. A child does this on a different but simular level. They try to do more complicating challenges like problem solving and drawing there thoughts.
This brings me to a qoute i found: “Kids can't always tell us what's on their minds.”
My cousin is 5 and he drew a picture of ..... well I still dont know but I asked him and he told me he had drawn his headache, which was why he had used blue. I asked him why blue and he replied with a shrug of his shoulders and went off to watch Sponge Bob Squarepants. (which is one of the weirdest and funniest childrens programmes ever)
I sat and thought about it for a while and I asked my auntie what she thought and she said it was him expressing how it makes him feel and I thought how creative it was to do that from such a young age.
The picture of this blue thing wasnt a thing it was an emotion. A piece of art that his mind just thought up.
I believe that if the mind of a child as young as 5 years of age can produce a creative piece of art work on a headache alone. Then maybe there is something adults are missing and need to embrace more in there daily lives.
After talking to Powell about this idea, we discussed how the mind changes with age and also the differences between men and women. It may sound a bit sexist but men and women are totally different in how they think about things.
An example of this was when was watching a film about romance comedy (Knocked up) and when I laughed at the jokes made by the male star, my girlfriend would just sit there and looked puzzled and vise versa when the female part got angry. I would not know why.
I think on a personal level life would be much easier if we did know what each other were thinking but deffinately not as interesting. Lol
Going back to this simple use of colour that my cousin used. If we could simply just express ourselves creatively using methods such as art and colour every day of our lives then I believe that we may be able to hold on to a part of this child like creativity that is in a part of us all. The problem with age is that as we become older we become set in our ways and dont experiment as much. Thats why the Speed Painting session that we have organised for ourselves may help us to keep our creative minds active and also help us to achieve a higher standard of work on photoshop.
After looking at what Tom O’Brien had achieved with his speed paintings over the summer, I was inspired to try it myself. His drawings showed great improvement after only a handful of them.
So in conclusion I need to go and do some more drawing and when I finish that DO SOME MORE!
Till next time cya!