I wish I could paint like this

That is amazing for a 6 year old. What a talent! Thanks for the post mysteryman.

nice stuff. His ability with perspective is something that takes years to develop. A true prodigy

good stuff

I cant even draw a straight line without using a ruler, so I admire and appreciate those who can paint like this.

It's really not bad at all!

But he should improve his signature a bit - "childish wobbling", as the Mail calls it (from today's Daily Mail, page 3)

Give hiom a break, he is only 6

What amazing talent.
How about this for quick art ....

I wish I could paint like that too.

You obviously missed the emoticon in my original post, mysteryman.

Yes, I did.
I apologize for that.

Me too!

Wow.

I haven't figured out what I think about this. His parents have a gallery (and how's the gallery doing these days?), probably have art around the home, and he has been taught. I'll agree he's a quick learner, assuming it is him who is doing the painting (which I do, at least temporarily). At the least, he has fair hand eye coordination and a nifty sensibility re color and atmospherics. How much help on the colors and technique?

I'm not saying he's not got quite a start. I'm just not ready to say freaking prodigy.

Maybe not - but from someone who buggers stick men, the idea that a six year old did these paintings is pretty incredible.

I didn't learn to paint until, gads, I was about thirty three. Art seemed this whole other world, not least since my mother used to repeatedly tell me that she couldn't draw a straight line, which apparently she was told in third grade, probably by her brother, which would have been in 1909. In all my years involved with art in one way or another, I've never been asked to draw a straight line, except when I do drafting in the old fashioned non computer way, and then I used devices like parallel bars (etc.) unless it was freehand, and precisely straight didn't matter - although one got better at that over time.

Indulgent curves, now those are more interesting.

I didn't mean to make this about me. I'm just standing away a bit from "boy genius found".

Got ya.

I think it is his "interpretation" of a scene that makes it so amazing for a young child. Could this six year old just have a more mature appreciation of how to spend a day, rather than playing with toys and watching the telly?

Now if he got his own tv show that was used in public schools for an art program, that would be interesting.

Nah. It's a formula thing.

We've watched dozens of these painters in Cozumel, among other places. All the paintings look fairly similar because they all use the same technique. After you watch them for an hour or so, you could do the same thing. They sell them for $2-20 each depending on the size. It's entertaining to watch for a while, and some of the painters are real showmen, but I certainly wouldn't call it real art. It's a tourist trap thing.

Sorry, I was talking about Deckland's spray-painting video.