3 year old artist

My niece is 3 and she says she wants to be a painter when she grows up. She's pretty good at it. She and I did this painting last winter. It was pretty great.

I gave her the paint and told her to cover the whole background. It took about an hour to get the white canvas covered. I came behind her and added some directional stokes and later added the leaf prints. The color is all her.

My mom and dad have above their mantel. They are very proud of it and love to tell the story...I can't find my pictures of the process, which makes me very sad, otherwise they'd be shared here.

But along the theme of "what am I learning from my art?" I would say that I learned about flexibility, chance and they joy of the unexpected. Watching a 3 year old get consumed into a large project and just go crazy painting away, making random choices and then it turning out quite nicely was awesome.