From Interpreting Children’s Drawings by Joseph H. DiLeo, M.D., Brunner/Mazel Publishers, New York, 1983.
A dispatch from my youth: I believe I was eight years old when I made this book of monsters. Here is the back cover. More photos.
A dispatch from my youth: I believe I was eight years old when I made this book of monsters. Here is the four-headed monster. More photos.
A dispatch from my youth: I believe I was eight years old when I made this book of monsters. Here is the tall monster. More photos.
A dispatch from my youth: I believe I was eight years old when I made this book. Here is the terrifying eye monster. More photos.
A dispatch from my youth: I believe I was eight years old when I made this book of monster drawings. More photos.
Another dispatch from my youth: one of my earliest books - possibly even the first! The staple overkill binding has held up quite well. I’m not sure when I made I made this but I’m guessing I was about eight years old (which would be thirty-three years ago). More photos to follow.
A detail of a page from a school assignment on Fruits and Nuts, circa late 1930s to early 1940s, that I picked up at a flea market yesterday morning. Each tiny dot on the map represents 500 acres of citrus fruit according to the text. More to come from this stash of school work.
A pair of drawings scanned from the 1972 book Human Figure Drawings in Adolescence by Mollie S. Schildkrout, M.D., I. Ronald Shenker, M.D. and Marsha Sonnenblick, M.S. As with the other example I previously posted here, you are encouraged to enlarge this image to read the authors’ analysis of these drawings.
A drawing of a balloon by Steffen Simon, from the collection of Ann-Kristina Simon, London, United Kingdom.
Ann-Kristina writes:
“As a creative person I am always interested in what makes us creative and how can we trigger it. Creativity is something that often happens subconsciously. To me, creativity is imagination and observation of what surrounds us, processed through a certain passage in our minds and then expressed in a way that is unique.
My brother is 13 years old and has learning difficulties. Apart from that, he is one of the most amazing drawers I know. He sees things I don´t see anymore, because my mind is too conscious. I often think I learned and know too many things to just “do”. He doesn´t draw things as they are, but as he sees them. To me it is beautiful to see the way our brain functions and dictates a creative outcome. Even if I tried, and I did, I can´t draw as naturally and organically as he does.”
More about Steffen and many more examples of his drawings here.
