mommy and BB drawn by BB, age 4

I’ve been really impressed lately with BB’s drawing skills. Since starting 4K, her pictures have begun to look more and more like real, deliberate drawings and less like a frantic desire to put as much color on the paper as possible.

a self portrait by BB, age 4

She’s started to develop preference and distinction in her artwork – I can tell my daughter drew it based off the shapes used to draw the face, pink eyes and humongous hands that often adorn her subjects.

a picture of mommy by BB, age 4

Most of her pictures are of family members, there is usually a lot of pink and purple going on – especially if she is drawing a girl – and a lot of them I can actually tell what I’m looking at!

The dog licking her face – a self portrait by BB, age 4

I suppose her pictures of the dog could use some work – this is the closest to accurate dog drawing I’ve seen from her and it still looks like a strange black four legged faceless creature is breathing fire on her – not like a sweet overgrown “puppy” licking her face.

A not so simple machine, invented and drawn by BB, age 4

Some of her drawings require a little more explanation. This one is both a machine that  does a lot of very complicated and unrelated things and also a pictoral symbol of her love and admiration for me, her brother, her father, her grandparents and the dog apparently.  “And there’s PINK, mommy.”

That part, I’m sure, is important.