During the epidemic, most industries were in a suspended state. Only the “online platforms” in the education industry were particularly popular. Many subjects were “hot”. In addition to major subjects such as English, Chinese, and mathematics tutoring, subjects that had been used as hobby training were also pushed to the front of the stage. Menacing, such as programming and speech., Piano, painting, etc., as long as you swipe the Internet, an advertisement will pop up from time to time. For example, “I regret spending a few thousand yuan for my child to enroll in *** class, here is 9.9 yuan!" If you don't go out, the effect is better! ”In short, on the grounds of saving time online, cheap prices, and good teachers, parents are tempted to pay out of their pockets for fear of missing out on their children's growth and learning.

I have always agreed with “children's painting, not teaching but teaching”, and I have doubts about art classes (whether online or offline). During this special time, I tried to study several major online art platforms to lead my children to experience the “hot” online art classes in depth: painting La La, art treasure, and the new VIPidear. These three can be regarded as the three giants of online art: painting Lala brand Liguang, art Treasure local, VIPIDEEAR has a lot of gimmicks, and English AI is in class. Combining my research and class experience, let's talk about the characteristics of these three online platforms (I made a table so that the comparison is clearer)：

Course related：

Class experience：

Based on the above comparison, my point is: it is not recommended that children before the age of 6 go online for art classes. Why?

First of all, the essence of the art of painting is expression. For children, the first thing they should learn most is not painting skills, but artistic thinking, learning to observe the connection between the outside world and the inside, and express it. Especially for children under the age of 6, the most important thing is to protect their creativity and imagination, allowing them to freely explore and doodle instead of learning certain painting skills.

The content of online art classes is taught in a unified mode and will not be adjusted for a child's special sensitivity. It is not ruled out that some platforms and some teachers will guide (in rare cases), and relatively speaking, the impact will not be too great, but most young children are more inclined to imitate in class, which limits their imagination and creativity.

For example, in the same course, I let 4-year-old children and 8-year-old children take it together, and the comparison of the works is obvious.：

Left: 4 years old. Imitation is mainly, basically the same as demonstration; right: 8 years old. Can integrate skills into works conceived by yourself

It can be seen that children over the age of 8, after they are accustomed to the artistic thinking of free creation and expression, will automatically learn some painting skills to express their own painting in class. At this time, choosing an online art institution to take class will have a relatively larger effect, and the reverse effect will be relatively reduced. Children around the age of 4 will be accustomed to imitating, even if she usually doodles freely.

In general, children before the age of 6 or even 8 need to be cautious when choosing art institutions (whether online or offline), because when your child loses his creativity and imagination, no matter how good his painting skills are, it is difficult to break through and have his own style. Before the age of 6, let your child doodle freely!

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Finally, let me put a few graffiti works by my 4-year-old sister. Although the brush is young, I think she can express herself confidently, which is more valuable than the so-called “good” painting.：

"Happy Birthday" Mia is 4 years old

"Good Friend" Mia is 4 years old

"Amusement Park" Mia is 4 years old