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“don’t paint over their lollipop trees.”

Posted by Mark | Filed under Links

Been feel­ing a bit burned out lately, too many weeks of run­ning around doing stuff and not enough down time, I sus­pect (hence the lack of posts and lack of Ant-Boy).

Any­way, while tak­ing a break I ran across this arti­cle over at CSM. I’ve felt that frus­tra­tion as well when I was younger. Back in a high school paint­ing class I took; I was work­ing on paint­ing a light­house on an icy shore. The teacher came over and said my waves were wrong, took the brush from my hand and painted the waves the way she thought they should be. After all these years¹, I still feel some­what annoyed/bitter that she did that. Ah well, not much I can do about it.

Our assign­ment was to paint water­color land­scapes. I painted trees with round tops, mod­eled after the pruned trees I saw as I walked to school each morn­ing. I liked my paint­ing; my teacher did not. She said my trees looked like lol­lipop trees; that they didn’t look like real trees, although they looked like the trees I knew.

Mrs. E picked up a paint­brush and painted over my trees to make them look the way she thought trees should look.

For the rest of my school years, I never vol­un­tar­ily took an art class.

Any­way to Mrs. Ken­nar I say, though I’m not a teacher and I did con­tinue tak­ing art classes² in high school and into col­lege; I’ll never paint over your lol­lipop trees.

¹ While I’ve been told that I look much older than my actual age (28); I’ve been through enough other expe­ri­ences that think­ing high school feels like I’m trudg­ing through ancient his­tory.
² Though per­haps not sur­pris­ingly, I haven’t done any paint­ing since I took that class.

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