Surjit Singh Flora
This strategy may benefit toddlers, teens, and the elderly, according to University of Waterloo researchers Canada.
Here are some of Gurleen Flora my daughter’s recent drawings.
Throughout history, the development and legacy of human civilizations can be traced solely through the artistic accomplishments of each era. Art has beautifully captured the rich history of civilizations across the globe through a variety of mediums, such as statues, pictures, utensils, coins, toys, jewelry, weapons, and clothes. Art has a significant impact on enhancing the beauty of life. Drawing and painting have enormous significance in fostering children’s holistic development, which includes their mental, cognitive, and imaginative growth. This fosters the artistic growth of the child’s entire character. Drawing organizes the world, from the smallest objects like a needle to larger ones like a plane.
Drawing subjects improves children’s imagination, art aesthetics, accurate measurement, and observation skills. In primary classes, students do not have knowledge of letters, so they learn to recognize the names of things only through the medium of pictures.
The School Education Board includes geometrical drawing, model drawing or object drawing, imaginative drawing, shape line drawing, letter writing, poster drawing, design, collage making, stenciling, and scales in the drawing curriculum. The curriculum fosters students’ imagination, power, and self-expression, enhancing their skills, abilities, and creativity over time. It also serves as a foundation stone for students who will pursue careers in engineering, architecture, draftsmanship, and interior design in the future.
Pictures are easier to remember in our minds than words. Because of this, things that are difficult to remember are remembered more effectively by making images than by making notes. According to University of Waterloo researchers, this technique may benefit children, teens, and the elderly.
While the drawing subject strengthens the students physically, it also connects them with nature. In primary classes, they feel at one with nature by drawing pictures of beautiful natural scenes such as birds, animals, flowers, and trees. Such feelings also motivate them not to cut down trees and save the polluted environment. In this way, they become sensitive and responsible human beings who think, understand, and feel in the world rather than mere materialistic human beings.
Drawing also plays a special role in learning and understanding other subjects. It makes difficult and boring subjects intriguing and easy to read. Drawings aid in creating images and pictures of various subjects in the field of science, such as flowers, leaves, plants, human organs, digestive systems, and chemistry experiments. Drawing is the only method in social education that allows for the creation of maps, pictures, and graphs. Drawing subjects that teach beautiful penmanship and calligraphy enhance exam marks by bringing beauty to penmanship in all languages. Today’s syllabus also allocates separate marks for beautiful writing. Other subjects are incomplete without drawing in the true sense. Schools have long neglected and undervalued drawing in comparison to other subjects. Currently, there is a pressing need to recruit qualified drawing teachers to fill the vacant posts in the drawing subject, thereby enhancing the future prospects of students.
Many parents think the only appropriate ways to respond to a child’s artwork are with compliments or by asking them to tell them what the art is.
My daughter, Gurleen Flora, also loves the art; she’s in grade 10. I support and foster her creative spark. Additionally, I encourage her to embrace her creativity by finding inspiration in various sources, such as music, literature, art, or her own life experiences. I enthusiastically share my preferences with her. I am genuinely enthusiastic about art and its creative process. I eagerly ask her to explain the piece. I asked her about her experience making it. I ask about her choice of hue or medium, the emotions her work evokes, and the impact she hopes it has on others. Here are some of Gurleen Flora my daughter’s recent drawings.
(The writer is a veteran journalist and freelance writer based in Brampton)
