well, looked at the pictures, and didnt believe they were hers, to be honest... wondered if her mother or father was doing the pictures, so I went and looked at her life history...
the kid rises at 4am 5-6 days a week, and paints for about 5 hours a day...
if the kid has been hothoused, deliberately, then by the age she is now yes, she should be a competent artist... I am also worried that her artworks look like Awake! covers and feel she may be given subjects to copy which okay, is difficult, but not as difficult as working from scratch.
I believe this to be the case because...
if u look at her six year old stuff, and her most recent stuff, there is not much in the way of change. If she was a naturally talented artist there would be some variation in her style, she would not be happy to churn out the same themes over and over again, she would naturally experiment. All artists do this, while they develop, children or adults, and I am not seeing anything which suggests that she is growing into her talent... from age six to now, the style, the technique, the use of colour, it is the same.
I also base my opinion that she has been hothoused on her life history.
Look at her earliest work. Yes, the average four year old child would not be able to draw like that, as they do not have the motor skills, and that's why we give them chubby crayons and let them do fingerpainting. They havent established the neural connectivity needed to put what they see on paper accurately yet, and as they develop their reproductive abilities become greater.
Fortunately, the average four year old doesnt get up at 4am and draw for five hours.
Faces and hands and feet are the most difficult for artists to recreate, yet, if you practise copying faces hands and feet over and over again then although on day one it will look like a rabbits foot instead of a maidens toe, by day 100, practising five hours a day six days a week you will be able to competently present a perfectly formed foot... if you don't believe me, try it urself, see what happens... If you add some parental praise to the mix, tell the child they are talented and special, they will believe this, and seek to make their parents/caregivers happy...
If you deliberately hothouse children, you can create child prodigies. The only problem with deliberately creating these child prodigies is, unless they have some unnatural talent, their genius will tail off...
and I think that for this kid, the genius is going to wear off at about 16, and she'll probably have a nervous breakdown or become a rock and roll rebel...
each to their own, though, hey..?
