A woman who let her son scribble on walls as a baby believes it turned him into a talented artist - at just four years old.<br /><br />Young Santiago Daniel Peña García started drawing when he was just ten months.<br /><br />The tot would scrawl around the family home and draw on walls in every room.<br /><br />Mum Adianée Peña García never stopped him and the four-year-old now paints every day and produces new pieces daily. <br /><br />Some of his paintings even include a version of Starry Night by Van Gogh.<br /><br />Adianée said: "I had just bought some coloured pencils and I didn't want him to ruin them, so I got him crayons.<br /><br />"He started to draw all over the walls but he seemed so happy that I couldn't stop him."<br /><br />Santiago Daniel's drawings were such that the family even had to re-paint the apartment before they moved out. <br /><br />But Adianée thinks it was worth because she raised an artist.<br /><br />Santiago Daniel's scribblings weren't everybody's tastes and Alianée's brother, who lived with the pair at the time, didn't like it. <br /><br />Alianée said: "At the beginning, my brother didn't like it because it wasn't our house, but then he saw how much Santiago Daniel enjoyed it.<br /><br />"He basically painted every wall in the house. Our bedroom, the hallway, the kitchen and the living room were covered.<br /><br />"The landlord saw it too when we left and he looked so shocked, but we were already painting over it so it was fine."<br /><br />Alianée believes that stopping the tot would have stifled his passion for art and says other parents should follow her lead.<br /><br />She said: "I think if he had done it and I had taken away his crayons it would have killed his passion for creativity.<br /><br />"I've seen parents do that and their kids just don't enjoy painting like Santiago Daniel does.<br /><br />"I would recommend other parents let their children be.<br /><br />"They probably won't all be artists because they scribbled on the walls but they shouldn't limit something that could help their growth, their creativity.<br /><br />"They shouldn't see it as naughty thing. Walls can be re-painted and kids are kids."<br /><br />The little boy now dedicates at least 40 minutes a day to painting.<br /><br />His inspiration comes from cartoons. <br /><br />His favourite things to paint are The PJ Masks, Disney's Luca or Mickey Mouse.<br /><br />Adianée said: "He will sit watching TV and then say: 'mum, I want to paint that!'<br /><br />"It depends on the painting but it varies from 40 minutes to an hour or so.<br /><br />"I don't make him do anything so he gets distracted and goes to play with something else and then comes back later. He's only four."<br /><br />Adianée says that scribbling on walls was a major factor in her son's journey but think she also inspired him.<br /><br />Adianée is a passionate artist herself and would often make toys for her son.<br /><br />Adianée moved to Peru from Venezuela in 2017 with no money, forcing her to make the toys herself.<br /><br />The single mum said that she could see him learning from her as she worked.<br /><br />She said: "I made him books, teddy-bears, I made a chimney for us one Christmas, so we could have a classic Christmas.<br /><br />"Santiago Daniel would lie next to me and watch while I painted them, he would grab at my paintbrushes too.<br /><br />"He'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.<br /><br />"Of course sometimes he would hold them in his fist like a normal baby, but he tried to do it correctly."
