Child Art is wonderful, but we usually respond to it best when there has been some adult "engineering". This intervention is often no more than good art materials made accessible to the child and clever displaying. When an art teacher is hailed as being a brilliant teacher you'll usually find their displays and colours well thought out as well. And the children often draw from life - subjects like a real crayfish or a complex object like a typewriter.    I gave Nicky (8) and Isabel (5) … [Read more...]