Little S is home from school today after a gastro bout last night. He's much better (my favorite patchwork blanket not so much), but I just let him stay home the whole day because I kind of miss having him around and we don't have much time to do art anymore since he's in French school which is pretty much an all day affair.
I've also been thinking of these Picasso quotes I love so much and wanted to share them. I really enjoy how he thought about painting and I really love his perspective about children and painting.
"....All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up."
"....It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child."
"....What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero."
I always see this in kids. They approach an art project with such carefree abandon when given no grid. Little S's school projects are so different compared to what he does at home.
I also wanted to share a link to a fun blog I just recently found today through another blog. Not only is it a great blog but there are lots of other links to creative blogs in Jean Van't Hul's sidebar. I love her 30 days of art projects idea and I think I'd like to do that with Little S too making my own list and also snagging some of hers.
I've got a little Creative Kids link in my sidebar now too.
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I read a "memoir" recently by a fellow named Danny Gregory that I thought was pretty good. In it, there was an exchange between a little girl and her father, an art teacher (not Danny Gregory, a friend of his). This is paraphrased. I can't remember the words that were actually said/read:
"Papa, what's your job?"
"I teach drawing to adults."
"You mean, they forgot how to do it?"
Says it all, man. Says. It. All.
I'm really aware of this but it was funny to see the mothers on the kids field trip at the Dali atelier who instructed their kids because they weren't doing it right (France --huge eye roll). I just went around to try and get them to go more nuts and pour on more paint and one mom said to one of the kids afterwards "no that's not how you're SUPPOSED to do it" which made me laugh out loud because it is SOOOOO French and so adult to instruct the tiniest of details to a four year old in an art class!
There's no right or wrong in art.
Sigh. The French...
Bwa ha ha !
Love those quotes! They're very cute.
I hope the little guy is feeling better. He (and you) may like a fun picture book (art! -- and very cute drawings/illustrations in it) about Miles the Moose who has a bout of gastro stuff. It's written (she's done others, too, on ailments such as earaches -- you know, universal kids' illnesses) by a pediatrician. The setting is a family camping trip with all kinds of fun activities planned when ... trouble strikes. Lots of fun family intervention and, of course, what happens when tummy trouble happens.
Very cute. And I think you'll really like the illustrations.
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