Amazing toddler artist

This kid isn't much older than five-and-a-half years old and he already paints like a great artist.

Oh yeah, don't be surprised as this little one - Adrit Das of Headstart School, Koramangala, does wonderful paintings whatever kind of paper he finds. He draws on paper napkins as well as canvas. His latest work has some form or shape of objects/living things, etc. and even better than his previous paintings. Since Christmas is round the corner, he is busy painting Santa, X-mas tree, etc. Apparently, he began painting when he was just two-and-a-half years old. Self-taught in the form of art and his works are amazing.

His first day at Montessori
On the first day at Montessori, Adrit had painted on the children's calendar and it is so beautiful even though it is just a few lines and strokes that his mother got it framed and hung up on the wall in his room.
"We noticed Adrit's strong fascination with drawing/sketching at the age of around two-and-a-half years," says his father Aditya Das. "Otherwise a restless child, drawing and sketching would find him stick to a position for long periods oblivious of the world around him," he says.
At the age of around three-and-half years, his mother, who is a trained artist herself, found Adrit having a style of his own and decided to let him shape up in his natural style. He is now 5 years 4 months old and continues to surprise all with his drawing skills for his age.

Goes by his own imagination
Adrit draws anything that catches his imagination, from cartoon characters to animals to landscape to Santa Claus to Indian mythology, and so on.
"He also likes to draw me, my wife and himself together as a family," says his father A Das. "More often than not, his drawings would try to tell a story or depict a situation that he fondly likes to explain. He conceives the entire drawing in about 10 seconds before he starts and once he puts the pencil to paper - likes to finish off in two  to five minutes depending on how elaborate the detailed a drawing was meant to be", he says.
"The ones requiring a fairly elaborate colouring take 10 to 15 minutes - but what is interesting is that he rarely pauses in between the drawing to think or plan the next stroke or next color. Once he starts, he finishes off in one go as if he had planned it all before he started. Also we have never seen him draw a line twice. We have often been surprised with the level of detailing in his drawings - like small jewellery on a Goddess's image," he says.

His latest indulgence
One of the recent interests of his is to draw on paper napkins. He uses sketch pen for this and in this particular format he loves to play with a variety of colours. These drawings take just 30 seconds to a minute and he does scores of them in one go - but he does this paper napkin stuff occasionally only when in the mood for it. On a regular basis he sticks to his landscape drawing books and chart papers - which he finishes off by the dozens every month.

At Montessori
On the first day at Montessori, Adrit had painted on the children's calendar. It is very beautiful even though it is just a few lines and strokes and his mother has got it framed and hung up on the wall in his room.

--AKSHAYA DEVA