I would say probably because it makes them happy if you look at the ocean from far away it is blue and if you're kind of up on top of it it does have the colors that you said above I don't think they understand that the depth declarity and the warmth the temperature of the water makes all those colors different I don't have an ocean it's like 400 miles away all I have is lake Tahoe and if you've ever seen any pictures of that you will see all the colors except for Brown or gray that you mentioned it is all different color blues and greens and clear and it's because of the temperature and the depth
I do have probably always painted blue for an ocean
It's most commonly depicted as blue, on maps, in graphics, and in most children's books and TV programming. I'm sure that's largely why.
You mostly only see the ocean as blue in places with white sand along the shore and the water is relatively shallow, and while that's not what most coastlines look like, it's what most *vacation beach destinations* look like, so kids who have only seen the ocean when on a beach vacation will probably assume it all looks that way.
When children create art, it’s based on abstract categorization and not impressionistic experience the way adults create art and they are going by the generic chrome variant of the water and not the residue land and shadow filters that modify and declassify the blue chrome of the waters as something grey or green or musky. Children are driven by basic categorizes and not qualifying variables the way adults are.
because there's the blue see and there's other sea is not fully green like a turquoise colour wich is a mix of blue and green so blue in it so thats my opinion
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I painted it that way because the kids near me painted it that way. I suspect one of them saw the art turn in the school halls the year before and started our class down the same road.
There must have been a Student Zero who started the whole epidemic of blue water… perhaps Jesus. :D
One reason is because the sea is normally blue when it's sunny and it's normally sunny in children's pictures too. But even if you live in a place where the water is green when it's sunny you still might paint it blue because blue is the default abstraction, the representation of water, the colour used on maps and such like.
That's because from a distance it always looks blue with the skies reflection. Most seas except for tropical coral reef type seas are green because of the fitoplankton, they call them the grass of the sea. I bet you never went skinny dipping in the sea, Pops? Wanna come with me, I could take you places you never thought existed. Man, do I love the sea.
Kids aren't artists. They don't have the ability to paint realism. What they do is representational. So blue represents sky and water, green represents grass and the crowns of trees. Tree trunks are brown. The sun is yellow and clouds are white.
I don't know. I’ve been to the middle of the ocean quite a few times.. it’s a very blue to me.. if you are closer to shore maybe it changes color to like a greenish blue.. but out in the deep where there is nothing but whales, sharks and jellyfish, mixed with SpongeBob… it’s pretty blue out there. There is a reason for it being called the deep blue sea
Everyone always talks about the deep blue sea and not the deep gray sea. After a while it becomes the truth
Have you ever seen a kids' tempra paint set with complex colour palettes?
Let kids be kids, they don't need to impress you.
Maps and globes show the world's oceans, lakes and rivers as blue, so kids paint water blue. Plus, blue is an easy color paint to get and recognize.
I've seen a lot of paintings with green sea. I don't hang out with kids though. I wonder at what age that stops...
do you really think kids know the variations of anything other than just primary colors? and it's not like they are given "sea foam green" in their painting palette lol
they heard the "saying" blue sea.
Why do kids color tree trunks brown? They more gray with some black
Because WE TEACH EM TO DO THAT, WE SHOULD ALSO TEACH EM HOW TO SWIM
Blue is the universal color that represents water
The sea has always been classified as blue since the beginning of time. Just look at any map, Water is blue
Because that's what it should be
Who says all kids paint the sea blue?
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