A Young Artist’s Self-Portrait

Isaac has just recently started drawing actual things instead of just scribbling on the paper. He was coloring when I walked over and asked him what he was drawing. "It’s me" he said. I looked at the picture and tried to find a person in the scribbles. I looked hard, but didn’t really see anything. So I asked him to show me where his head was. He sat and looked at the picture for a long, long time. I began to wonder if he was ignoring me. But finally, he looked up at me, scrunched up his little face, and said "I don’t have a head!" He then proceeded to draw a circle around some smaller circles and lines, and then explained to me that the circles were eyes and a nose, while the lines were "all my mouths – I have a WOT of mouths!" (wot=lot) After he drew the head, I could see the person. Head, eyes, nose, mouths (the four horizontal lines under the nose), legs, and arms (the green lines coming out of the knees). His first drawing of a person is pretty cute – take a look for yourself.

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