Friday, July 24, 2009

2 steps forward, 2 steps back, rinse and repeat

Lately I have been thinking about how Cooper is doing in the “stu-B-yo” and questioning if we have taken a few steps back. In the past few weeks he has gone from:
1. holding a brush and painting or making numbers to
2. quickly placating me by using the brush for 30-45 seconds before finger painting to
3. putting his entire hand in the paint then “hand painting” on the canvas to
4. just using the paint as lotion - canvas completely ignored…

I was beginning to feel like my best laid plans had been thwarted (again!) by a small but determined boy, then I reminded myself of the goal of this project - have fun, spend time together, explore and create; I have decided my new plan will be to just “go with it” - and we are meeting those goals in spades!


This time together has also sort of naturally evolved into an opportunity to work on speech and language skills. When he's in the studio he is much calmer, focused and able to stay in one spot for a surprising length of time - most days. Earlier this week he was not only asking for specific colors but showing me on the canvas exactly where he wanted me to put the paint! Because it's something that he loves doing it makes him work a little harder to communicate his wants to me.

As far as the first 12 canvases go, you're looking at two of them! he has covered every inch of those at least 2x over, easy to do when you paint with your entire hand! So, it's time for my next layer. My intent is for us to keep working and layering together and hopefully I will know when they are finished. Although these are still "in progress" they are getting close to completion.

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