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Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Finger Painting

When I was in kindergarten finger painting was my favorite activity. I just loved it! What could be better than getting your hands INTO the paints as well as making a masterpiece!

One day the teacher sent a note home to my parents suggesting that they take me to a psychiatrist because all of my paintings were dark and brooding. Perhaps I was fostering some deep buried hostility or depression that needed looking into.

 
My mother (being the brilliant parent that she was) instead of running to make an appointment with a shrink, asked me “why do you always use such dark colors when you finger paint?”

 
I responded…..”Because by the time I get to the paints, all the good colors are taken.”

 
Did I mention my mother was brilliant? She not only saved all that money on a psychiatrist, she also saved me from years of therapy! Thanks, Mom!



 

8 comments:

  1. Love it! This would make a terrific journal cover or background. I had the grandkids do this once and I cut up their pieces to use as backgrounds for notecards.

    Remember those school papers with purple ink? My daughter was given, in first grade, a print of a sheep in purple outline form on white paper and was told to color it. She did. In a rainbow of colors and came home to tell me the teacher said sheep are white not rainbow colors so she did it wrong. Remember this was on white paper - what was the teacher thinking? So I took it and told her how goofy the teacher was and posted it on the refrigerator as a work of ART.

    Oh, I have other stories about teachers and art but that's enough for today.

    The colors in THIS fingerpainting are super!

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  2. I've so enjoyed your drawings, painting and comments in Jane's class, that I thought I would check out your blog. I like your sense of humor and posts, and of course your art. Thought I'd say Hi and follow you around for awhile; tried to email you on the link, but my computer not set up for it...
    Connie Maeran (cmaeran from Jane's class)

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  3. hi,
    thats cool work...
    do you create paintings for commercial purpose also?
    lemme know
    rgds
    Avi
    avi.b.sandhu@gmail.com

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