Incredible watercolour paintings by boy aged just SIX

A street scene from the paintbrush of a child usually involves triangle-topped boxes for houses. And often an unnaturally large dog.

But Kieron Williamson's attempts are so beautifully rendered that artists ten times his age will be filled with envy.

Experts have said that the six-year-old's atmospheric paintings, which began with harbour scenes and expanded to include rural vistas, animal portraits and landmarks, have perspective, shadow and reflections that demonstrate an ability well beyond his years.



Streets ahead: One of the stunning watercolours by six-year-old Kieron Williamson. The only hint that this is a child's work is the slightly wobbly signature




Sunday art school: Kieron's watercolour of a local church

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:sarcasm:

If repubies say good work is paid well, then this 6 year old artist, when he gets into the workforce as an adult, should be well paid indeed.

Rather than use it as a source of income or the like. I've seen too many examples of the latter; stuff like a kid who is really good with a fiddle, so their parents force them to busk all day every day in the summer.

Recommended.

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I can hardly believe it, outstanding work. I hope his parents just let him be, he has a natural born talent. I have been teaching watercolor for over 40 yrs, I have only seen a few people with such an exceptional eye and use of color and they were adults.

I was amazed at not only his use of color, but his perspective ... Wow!

Watercolor is certainly challenging for even the best of artists. The level of sophistication in this boy's work is just incredible. By the time he's ten he'll probably be doing this: http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/search/label/Watercolor%20Painting

In a good way though. I hope this artist gets the support that our society is so lacking in giving to artists.

Here's a sample of my art so everyone can see I know art

Even in this small scale, your work shines.

You're very, very talented.

Don't stop............................

that my belief in reincarnation gets bolstered. Stunning work.

Yup. It give reincarnation credence

without input from an older person

The kid just has the gift of perspective--it's usually the last thing people learn.

ON EDIT: His teacher is an artist/gallery owner herself. I don't think she'd risk her reputation just to boost this kid. His stuff is good, and it is getting better as time goes on:

. . .Kieron appears to agree. 'I like painting because it's fun and inspiring. It makes me think of places I can't see,' he said. His talent was recognised by a family friend, artist Carol Ann Pennington, who offered to give him lessons.
She said: 'I have known Kieron since he was a baby but I had no idea he had it in him.'

His use of shading and tone was way off when he was three? :P

I used to do a lot of artwork when I was a kid and had training, etc. too, and having that sense of perspective is the place where he's so far ahead of everyone else. He certainly is way ahead of mine earlier and I didn't get close to his level there until I was somewhere in high school and even in college. Sometimes a sense of color comes naturally for kids and doesn't need a lot of nurturing, but perspective is something I'm sure he had to have had his teacher help nurture him a lot with. As you say, it isn't something that most kids have "naturally" at this stage of learning to be artists and takes a while to master...

Wouldn't it be wonderful if what we learn in this life is

carried over into the next -- !!??

If you like art, you'll enjoy Searching for Carroll Beckwith. A police detective undergoes a hypnosis session and recalls a previous life. The memories are so vivid that he decides to see if this person Carroll Beckwith really existed.

Trained and employed as a detective, Captain Snow has the skills to document such a case and he does. He finds he was a portrait artist. He was not a particularly famous artist but he was recognized for his portrait work in that lifetime. In the book is a picture of him as an artist and he does indeed resemble pictures of the artist Carroll Beckwith. Also, in the picture section of the book is a photo of him visiting the grave of Carroll Beckwith.

Another exceptionally well documented book is Soul Survivor. This is the case of little James Leininger, who in a previous life piloted a plane that went down in a WWII attack on supply lines at Chichi Jima. This case has been well publicized. If you put in "20 20 James Leininger reincarnation" at youtube, you can turn up a show they did on the family's investigation of his previous life.

I just finished reading the book and the knowledge this little kid carried over from one lifetime to another is astounding. He has an incredible knowledge of airplanes and in particular, the peculiarities of WWII bombers.

So yes, it is carried over.

For more info on this case, see this site:

http://www.soulsurvivor-book.com/

I have learned that talents cultivated in previous life may not necessarily be used in the current lifetime if they do not assist in the goals a person sets out for themselves. For example, I have an unused musical talent. I took piano lessons as a child but after the first lesson, pretty much figured musical notation out on my own. I could sight read and taught myself four other instruments. At the age of 11, I was a church organist, playing a pipe organ with stops and three or four keyboards plus the footboards, not to mention the carillons. I hardly ever practiced and would walk in a minute before the services started and sight read the hymns as well as the liturgy.

But as an adult, I never play. I can, however, sit down at a piano and again sight read any piece of music with ease.

So the talent is there, but if it doesn't facilitate the growth lesson, it just sort of sits there, unused.


Cher

It just seems imposable for a six year old to have that much understanding in his very short lifetime.

The two of which yielded unusual ability. We've got how many billion people on the planet? Surely it's not a shocker that just one of them has the capacity to be an unusually talented artist and is in a place where that capacity can find expression. It's simple odds. Has nothing to do with reincarnation.

No reincarnation! What about the autistic kids who can play complicated classical music by listening to a song once. The brain is the most complex thing we know of in the universe and we are just now breaking the surface in our struggle to understand how it works. I am glad our entire society does not jump to the supernatural to explain the unknown...Although, in America those who do jump to the supernatural make up a large majority which does bother me. If everyone did that we would look like Afghanistan.

Has have to been an artist in a past life.

Simply incredible.

Thanks for these. K & R

facilitate the growth of gifted and talented students that make up one or two percent of any population.

I wish the U.S. would fund programs for gifted and talented students at the same level as students with special education needs.

...are the ones who have more marketable talents in our screwed-up corporate system.

Musicians and artists get screwed. Take this from a musician who decided instead to be a scientist because of better marketability. When I was enrolled in gifted, they spent oodles of dollars on making sure I knew my Krebs cycle, but not a single dime on developing my artistic and musical skills. Those talents became "hobbies".

Oh well, you can refuse to fund or ignore the artist, but that doesn't stop them from cultivating their passion.


This kid is one of the most talented I've seen.

'At the time, they were like the drawings of most five-year-olds but he really took off after going to some art classes.'

Mrs Williamson, 36, a nutritional therapist, is married to art dealer Keith, 43.



high-income parents, art dealer, lessons.


gifted & talented 1% bullshit, genius are born not made, bullshit, "genius" = bullshit.

"cultural creatives" & similar elitist circle jerks too.

the future of someone. I saw a documentary that studied the effects of early childhood education on the IQ of kids and the results were astonishing. The average intelligence of kids that went through early childhood education programs was much higher than kids who had not gone through the programs.

While it is true that some are born with a greater capacity for intelligence (the freaks, for example, with off the chart IQs), not all high IQ individuals were born with their gift.

Especially when the child comes from a privileged background.

Most 'geniuses' in history did not have to finish their chores before heading to a community organization to play an out of tune 2nd hand piano.

It discusses the many factors and accidents that converge to make outstanding or unusual performance (bad and good) possible. I liked it. Not everyone does.

a certain score on a number of factors according to a test, then to some extent at least, that may be genetic. But if you define it as unusual creativity or as having the ability to make a unique positive difference in the world, then it is made and not born.

And some of the factors are not exactly "environmental" or a question of education or training. Malcolm Gladwell in Outliers points out that Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and several other men who are recognized as geniuses because of the key roles they played in developing the internet were born between 1953 and 1956. That's simply a matter of being born at the right time. Of course a lot of other factors played a role in developing their "genius" such as the fact that Bill Gates attended a private school where he had early access to computers. The children in my neighborhood would never have that advantage.

I liked the book Outliers but as I said some people do not.

"His mother, Michelle, said: 'Until last year he didn't draw anything and in fact we had to draw dinosaurs for him to colour in."

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To become this good in so short a time? Certainly you have to admit that's incredibly gifted and has nothing to do with art lessons paid for by "high-income parents."

I'm :wow: that he's only six!

my own attempts look like they were painted by a six year old without any talent...

When I was his age, I wanted to be an artist when I grew up. I still work at it from time to time.

It will keep him company all his live-long life, too, which is grand.

He is even preparing for his first exhibition in a gallery near his home in Holt, Norfolk.
His mother, Michelle, said: 'Until last year he didn't draw anything and in fact we had to draw dinosaurs for him to colour in.
'The turning point was when we took our first family holiday to Devon and Cornwall last May and he liked the boats and scenery. He asked for some plain paper and started drawing his own stuff.

'At the time, they were like the drawings of most five-year-olds but he really took off after going to some art classes.'
Mrs Williamson, 36, a nutritional therapist, is married to art dealer Keith, 43. The couple also have a daughter, Billie-Jo, five.
'We often think about why Kieron has chosen art in this way and I think it's because we live in a top-floor flat and we have no garden or outside space, so perhaps he's had to create his own scenery,' she said. . . .



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astonished byt the precise, beautiful paintings the artist produced when he was 3-6 years old. He had an incredible skill for rendering, even at that age. When someone as that sort of talent, it can show up very, very young.

Picasso himself said he could paint like the Masters by the age of ten.

He then spent the rest of his life painting like a ten-year old.

was pretty much a fraud to commercialize his work.

eye hand connection. bypass the brin. i have it,, tho i wasn't that good when i was that young. but I didn't get art 'instruction' til 5th grade.

Is this kid an autistic savant or something? Non-autistic young kids have trouble drawing realistic images because of holistic-essentialistic conceptions of objects have to be overcome by teaching and training.

They are the best!

One of my teachers, Greg Manchess: http://manchess.com/ doesn't believe in natural talent. He says that if a person puts in 10,000 hours at anything, they'll begin to master it. I think I'll be sending him this!

The fact that some people can do it faster doesn't alter the fact that you can also improve with lots of practice. I like his paintings, incidentally.

Obviously practice can improve any skill. But there are some people that, for whatever reason, are born with skills that others have to work years-if not decades-to attain. Greg worked very hard to get where he is today, but that doesn't negate the fact that there are some very young but freakishly talented people out there who get there quickly because their brains are attuned for that, not because they study and work as hard as the rest of us do.

some people are born with certain gifts, and unless they're spotted, nurtured, cultivated, and encouraged, they mean nothing, go nowhere.

It's like perfect pitch.

Some people can sight-read music like gangbusters. Nothing fazes them.

The people who can play musical instruments by ear.

A boy plays with watercolors, a parent sees something, the boy is given a few lessons, and a miraculous talent is exposed. He was born with it, and the adults around him have, so far, done all the right things.

Some people can take all the lessons in the world, read all the books, practice, practice, and practice some more, but if they don't have that inborn talent, they will never be anything more than practiced. They will not be spectacular or extraordinary. That's just how it is.

This kid's work is out of this world. I'd be thrilled to have any of the pieces shown in the article hanging in my home.

The windmill piece is startling.

He's SIX YEARS OLD! How much could he have learned from lessons? He got some teaching, and the rest is his.

What a great story, and, I'll be curious to see what your teacher has to say about this kid.....................

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Some people have an innate sense of rhythm and pitch, and some are basically tone deaf and have to study and practice constantly to become decent musicians. It's doable for them, but not easy.

that one can master anything if one spend 10,000 hours on it. That is not the same as saying it takes 10,000 hours for anyone to master something.

which was that talent is based on mastery through many years of work alone, NOT natural ability. Both exist from all I've seen over the decades.

I love his style -- not too fussy, but just right.

Bob Ross featured the works of 6 year olds who mastered his wet on wet oil painting technique on his show from time to time. Some of their paintings were as impressive as Bob's

I hope he keeps on creating!

from time to time

Such talent, I hope his parents and teachers encourage his gift. He may have already found his life path!

- Just absolutely excellent!!!

K&R

awful electricity lines into a very pleasant view. I wish him all the best. Much patience and natural talent.:thumbsup:

I couldn't do that if you held a gun to my head.

Six? Jesus.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQwK_DNeowE

interesting stuff - in 5 years will be so interesting to return to this story and see where things went

e.g.

Wow, my four year old only ever wants to draw Optimus Prime.

I sure hope he keeps painting and drawing.

I bought this book, "Drawing from the right side of the brain". After reading the first chapter, you'll be good at drawing. Teaches you to draw what see, not the symbols of what you see. Once you learn that trick, you can draw anything. So, I got pretty good and brought some of my artwork to work. My boss saw it and asked if he could borrow the book. He brought it home and started going through it. His 6 or 7 year old daughter watched him go though the exercises and he explained what he was doing. She did some of the exercises and then she could draw. She started drawing clothes, became really good at it and ended up a fashion designer. Her line is Shani. It's been on QVC a couple of times.

I love LOVE LOVE the comments from the people who find it necessary to trash a six-year-old with an amazing talent.

The notion that he "comes from a privileged background" must, of course, account for his talent, so it must be shot down.

And the adults who are so obviously jealous of this little child are just shameful in their derision and scorn of what a little child can do - and they can't.

Failed artists with no talent - the biggest loads of all, ever and ever.

I wish this child every happiness, a wonderful life............................................

This post makes two now, in the past 24 hours, where I am in complete agreement with you. :evilgrin:

Seriously, though. I really do think you've touched on something. There appears to be jealousy on the part of a few here in this thread. I just can't imagine looking for an excuse or explanation for this young boy's amazing talent. And I am an artist who was singled out as a child. I NEVER possessed anything near the fabulous natural talent this boy has.

I see a pattern emerging.

Can you believe this stuff? Granted, their numbers are few - for which I'm thankful - but how hard up do you have to be, how frustrated or thwarted or I-don't-know-what-the-word-is to have to land on a child? A LITTLE KID?

I can barely write my name, so anyone who can do anything with a brush and canvas and paint has my unending admiration. This little boy is doing something wonderful, and grownups - safe behind the anonymity of the InterTube(s), the weasels - take off on him.

It's pure jealousy. Of a kid.

It's such a hard world out there, when something like this comes along, it's a cause for celebration. We don't get that many chances to celebrate something simply wonderful, and the story of this little boy is simply wonderful.

Still, the weasels would begrudge and attempt to diminish what a talented child can do.

I think you agree with me because - and I mean this with, honestly, no self-congratulating going on - it's obvious and simple and decent. And I like to think I'm decent. You are, too, and I can tell that because you take the time to tell me the truth.

I'm lucky, in that I enjoy a certain measure of success in the art of writing, and, naturally, I have those stunted "artists" who nip at my heels. But I'm an adult, and I understand that that's part of the deal. It's laughable.

Imagine, though, how it has to be for someone - imagine how fucked up their lives must be - if they have to assault a little boy with words on an anonymous message board. Does it get any lower than that?

Now, back away from the keyboard, and wash your hands. Say a rosary and burn some sage. Hang garlic in the doorway, and think good thoughts. I'm sure I'll post something tomorrow or the next day that will have you reeling with disgust and annoyance, and I do hope you'll be kind enough to let me know that we're back in our groove..........................:evilgrin:

Those are really beautiful!

Amazing.

This is top stuff - great for any age. At six?? Wow.

What a bright artistic future he has!

those are some truly beautiful paintings. I use to thin I was pretty good at painting when I was his age. But in comparison, mine look like utter garbage :) This made me smile. I really needed this after today,

They are just beautiful. I should be so talented.

AMAZING!

Most of the "artsy" people I knew in high school also had really nice handwriting.

If he has so much control over the objects, wouldn't he have a similar amount of control making letters?

Would be interesting to study the development of writing vs. ability to draw objects.

Reminds me of Marla Olmstead:



Just sayin'.

It showed me that we need beauty and innocence in our lives - we cannot live from politics alone :toast: :party: :thumbsup: :loveya:

Also I may need a few days to arrange for transportation. Is there a camels-for-clunkers program?

he took a couple classes and ran with it! I hope he keeps painting, he could be the next Andrew Wyeth.

And I'd love to believe it, too. But I've never seen a video of this child painting, and the sources of the information about the artist are questionable at best.

Nothing at all against the OP, but every practicing artist knows that watercolor is uncommonly difficult to manage; it has a mind and will of its own. My personal belief is that it's a pity that watercolor so often is the first media attempted by many taking up painting -- without some basic instruction, watercolor very often guarantees disappointment.

what appeared to be close to the finished product. I would like to see this child painting from start to finish.

If this little boy is as skilled as is reported, I'd prefer to see him just left alone to paint and explore -- even if my own curiosity isn't satisfied.

The paintings, especially the perspective, seem to be very advanced for the six year old.
I would love to see him drawing it from start to finish.

N.b. - As others have said, it *could* be a false or exaggerated report (the Daily Mail is not a reliable paper). But there have been other such amazing talents, and I would like to believe the this one is genuine. Certainly, gorgeous pictures!

My daughters are 4 and 5 and cannot draw like this (though the 5 year old draws almost as good as I do, I must be horrible) but it is possible...wasn't Mozart creating pieces of music at a young age? Geniuses are very hard to figure out in terms of their talent.