Prodigy
Every Child is an Artist.
The Problem is
How to Remain an Artist ~
When we grow up.
~ Pablo Picasso
Images:
1.) “Autumn Rose (Self-Portrait)” Autumn de Forest, age 12
2.) “Sea Breeze” by Kieron Williamson, age 10
3.) “Eagle Nebula” by Aelita Andre, age 7
4.) Dusan Krtolica, age 11
5.) “Limit of the Apple” by Victoria Yin, age 12
This is awesome. We should all encourage artistry and creativity in our children.
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January 15, 2017 at 5:06 PM
Absolutely!
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January 15, 2017 at 6:00 PM
So true! Coloring is for children, art is for children… well, no! I have adult coloring books, some with swearing, and I color in them all the time. Very relaxing! Not to mention, freestyling is a possibility.
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January 15, 2017 at 7:53 PM
So true! I actually enjoy coloring more now than I did as a kid- but then, as a kid I was coloring on the walls and getting in trouble for it… that could be the reason.
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January 15, 2017 at 8:04 PM
That would be a reason to love coloring as a kid more – the freedom, lol. But yes, coloring is so zen, so relaxing as you explore contrast and differences. Such a metaphor for life. Plus, lots of swear words in the particular book I’m coloring, lol.
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January 15, 2017 at 8:19 PM
The swear words… definitely a plus! ;c)
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January 15, 2017 at 8:35 PM
I should post one of them. Very entertaining. Like a zen activity, plus art, plus the release of some funny swear word phrase. Great fun!
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January 15, 2017 at 8:37 PM
Yes you should! That would be so awesome!
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January 15, 2017 at 8:40 PM
Okay! I’ll do one tomorrow. Lol
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January 15, 2017 at 8:42 PM
Looking forward to it!
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January 15, 2017 at 8:43 PM
Ms Madly, you are now a big person and the walls are your own so have at colouring those walls!
Parents tend to pay a lot of lip service and then when you step up and say that art is the path you desire to take, many take it away and insist you sign for the “Main Stream Curriculum”. Their house their rules right?
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January 16, 2017 at 4:55 AM
Actually, the walls belong to the landlord…
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January 16, 2017 at 12:08 PM
This might work. Should you have a unit matter real or imagined, tell the Lord you left the message on the wall.
How is it your fault he doesn’t speak Madly…. er yeah there will be speaking madly but not that way.
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January 16, 2017 at 12:22 PM
I look forward to the day I can ask the landlord if he’s seen the writing on the wall!
…And just what do you mean by ‘imagined’?
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January 16, 2017 at 12:41 PM
I figure if you go “Imaginist” on the walls it would be an imagined reason to tell the landlord about how some deviant broke in and made art on the wall.
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January 16, 2017 at 12:50 PM
Someone broke into my apt just to make art on the walls…
I think he’ll believe it.
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January 16, 2017 at 1:14 PM
Now you just have to execute the plan or crystalize the pain. Either is good.
We’ll be needing pics of course.
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January 16, 2017 at 1:21 PM
Good post SM! Creativity must be encouraged and developed always 😊
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January 16, 2017 at 5:54 AM
Thank you! I agree, it should be encouraged- especially over algebra, because who uses algebra after high school?
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January 16, 2017 at 11:55 AM
I grew up with a lot of weird people; my Mum was a teacher, her teachers’ friends were child psychologist, or psychoanalyst… Yeah, it was weird. In one of my Mum’s best friend’s bathroom was a postcard: a kid playing on the sea shore. It just said at the bottom: ” A child lives in the wonderful, nothing seems to them as more natural”. I decided to live my life with this wise “adage”…
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January 17, 2017 at 2:11 PM
I like that. It makes the world more magical. A good adage to live by! ;c)
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January 17, 2017 at 3:50 PM
A very good question that perhaps only passion can answer.
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January 21, 2017 at 9:44 PM
Passion definitely plays a part!
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January 22, 2017 at 11:34 AM
🙂
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January 22, 2017 at 11:43 AM
Gah, so true, dear Sister. Luckily you are an example to us all…
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January 29, 2017 at 6:29 PM
Thank you.
But I believe it is you who is the example. ;c)
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January 29, 2017 at 7:32 PM
I’m going to try to pretend you didn’t just call me old.
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January 29, 2017 at 7:38 PM
HA HA HA! That angle didn’t even occur to me!
Then again, growing up and growing old is not necessarily the same thing.
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January 29, 2017 at 7:51 PM
So very true.
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January 30, 2017 at 5:51 PM