{"id":68410,"date":"2023-11-25T03:38:25","date_gmt":"2023-11-25T03:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/talkcelnews.com\/?p=68410"},"modified":"2023-11-25T03:38:25","modified_gmt":"2023-11-25T03:38:25","slug":"i-let-my-son-draw-on-walls-as-a-baby-now-hes-a-budding-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/talkcelnews.com\/lifestyle\/i-let-my-son-draw-on-walls-as-a-baby-now-hes-a-budding-artist\/","title":{"rendered":"I let my son draw on walls as a baby &#8211; now he&apos;s a budding artist"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>I let my son draw on all the walls in our house when he was a baby &#8211; now he&#8217;s a budding artist at 4-years-old and imitates Van Gogh<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Santiago Daniel\u00a0Pe\u00f1a Garcia, 4, from Peru, paints every single day<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>READ MORE: I let my daughter, 6, take a day off school every month without being sick to do whatever she likes<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A mother who allowed her son to draw on the walls as a baby now believes it turned him into a budding artist.<\/p>\n<p>Santiago Daniel Pe\u00f1a Garcia, from Peru, began drawing on the walls when he was just 10 months old &#8211; and now is a natural with a paintbrush and an easel, his mother Adian\u00e9e claims.<\/p>\n<p>From the moment he could walk, Santiago Daniel would draw on the walls in every room in the house, and his mother allowed him to let his creative juices flow.<\/p>\n<p>Now he paints every single day &#8211; with his paintings including a version of Starry Night by Van Gogh.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Adian\u00e9e said: &#8216;I had just bought some coloured pencils and I didn&#8217;t want him to ruin them, so I got him crayons.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/20\/10\/78017313-12770377-image-m-50_1700477621799.jpg\" height=\"1006\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Santiago Daniel Pena Garcia, from Peru, is a budding artist after learning his craft by painting on the walls as a toddler<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;He started to draw all over the walls but he seemed so happy that I couldn&#8217;t stop him.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Santiago Daniel&#8217;s drawings were such that the family even had to re-paint the apartment before they moved out.<\/p>\n<p>But Adian\u00e9e thinks it was worth because she raised an artist.<\/p>\n<p>Santiago Daniel&#8217;s scribblings weren&#8217;t everybody&#8217;s tastes and Alian\u00e9e&#8217;s brother, who lived with the pair at the time, didn&#8217;t like it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/20\/10\/78016491-12770377-image-a-45_1700476833572.jpg\" height=\"1058\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Little Santiago Daniel, who is now 4-years-old, sits down with paintbrushes and a canvas every day<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/20\/10\/78016481-12770377-image-a-48_1700477399353.jpg\" height=\"476\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The budding artist&#8217;s mother allowed him to draw on all the walls in the house when he was a baby<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/20\/10\/78016487-12770377-image-a-46_1700477332841.jpg\" height=\"845\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Adian\u00e9e said the landlord of their house was shocked when he saw what Santiago Daniel had done in the house, but added she eventually painted over the drawings\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Adian\u00e9e said: &#8216;At the beginning, my brother didn&#8217;t like it because it wasn&#8217;t our house, but then he saw how much Santiago Daniel enjoyed it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;He basically painted every wall in the house. Our bedroom, the hallway, the kitchen and the living room were covered.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The landlord saw it too when we left and he looked so shocked, but we were already painting over it so it was fine.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Adian\u00e9e believes that stopping the tot would have stifled his passion for art and says other parents should follow her lead.<\/p>\n<p>She said: &#8216;I think if he had done it and I had taken away his crayons it would have killed his passion for creativity.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/20\/10\/78016483-12770377-image-a-47_1700477356829.jpg\" height=\"1070\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Santiago&#8217;s mother believes all parents should &#8216;let their children be&#8217; when it comes to their creative outlets<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I&#8217;ve seen parents do that and their kids just don&#8217;t enjoy painting like Santiago Daniel does.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I would recommend other parents let their children be.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;They probably won&#8217;t all be artists because they scribbled on the walls but they shouldn&#8217;t limit something that could help their growth, their creativity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;They shouldn&#8217;t see it as naughty thing. Walls can be re-painted and kids are kids.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The little boy now dedicates at least 40 minutes a day to painting.<\/p>\n<p>His inspiration comes from cartoons.<\/p>\n<p>His favourite things to paint are The PJ Masks, Disney&#8217;s Luca or Mickey Mouse.<\/p>\n<p>Adian\u00e9e said: &#8216;He will sit watching TV and then say: &#8216;mum, I want to paint that!&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It depends on the painting but it varies from 40 minutes to an hour or so.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I don&#8217;t make him do anything so he gets distracted and goes to play with something else and then comes back later. He&#8217;s only four.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Adian\u00e9e says that scribbling on walls was a major factor in her son&#8217;s journey but think she also inspired him.<\/p>\n<p>Adian\u00e9e is a passionate artist herself and would often make toys for her son.<\/p>\n<p>Adian\u00e9e moved to Peru from Venezuela in 2017 with no money, forcing her to make the toys herself.<\/p>\n<p>The single mum said that she could see him learning from her as she worked.<\/p>\n<p>She said: &#8216;I made him books, teddy-bears, I made a chimney for us one Christmas, so we could have a classic Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Santiago Daniel would lie next to me and watch while I painted them, he would grab at my paintbrushes too.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;He&#8217;s been so smart since he was a baby I could see that when he held my paintbrushes he used the same grip as me.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Of course sometimes he would hold them in his fist like a normal baby, but he tried to do it correctly.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/femail\/article-12770377\/I-let-son-draw-walls-house-baby-hes-budding-artist-4-years-old-imitates-Van-Gogh.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I let my son draw on all the walls in our house when he was a baby &#8211; 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