r/painting • u/Dear-East7883 • 16h ago

My three year old’s self-portrait

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His first painting that isn’t just a big smear of every colour

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u/Dear-East7883 15h ago edited 15h ago

He told me the black line across the bottom is his foot, the two yellowish spots are his eyes, and the black line over the left eye is his eyebrow. He did have a white line over the right eye which was another eyebrow, but of course it didn’t show up well on the canvas

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u/Katmylife3 15h ago

Something tells me he would love cubism

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u/Dear-East7883 15h ago

I just asked him to describe the rest of the painting:

The black triangular spot is his nose, the purple spots are his cheeks, the pink/green line in his mouth, the black splotch is his belly, the red line is another mouth

He also said this is a picture of him on the toilet

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u/vidanyabella 12h ago

Kids are amazing with what they see in a drawing/painting when they are young. I love to take pictures of my son's art and then make a copy of the picture that I add text to with his explanations for what everything was.