Art Club President?

One of my worst memories of secondary school was of the first exam I ever failed. I'd never failed anything before that, at an exam level anyway. I failed many things after that but that's not the point here. I remember it very clearly. I was one of two people who failed and the other person who failed, is one of my best friends today and both of us remember staring forlornly round the class after receiving our dismal results. We bonded because of our misery. What exam was it? It was inconsequential but it was memorable. It was my first art exam and I failed at drawing a still life of a papaya.

It was made even more memorable when I married Packrat. Sometime after we started going out, I found out to great mock horror that he was the former president of his school's art club. There is a certain amount of irony in it; me, the former track athlete getting married to the art club president. Talk about polar opposites. The jockette marrying the equivalent to the band geek.

Anyway, I have recently found out that Baby J takes after her father, in terms of artistic abilities. We've known for a long time that she has quite good fine motor control and knows how to hold the pen or pencil like an adult. She gets very annoyed with jumbo sized crayons because she doesn't know how to hold those ones properly. Her little hand doesn't have the ability to grasp the crayon properly.

Some days ago, I found her scrawling. I asked her what she was drawing and she said 'Mommy', 'Papa', ' Jordan', 'Evan' and 'Di-di'. When I looked, I was amazed that her drawings actually resembled faces. The smallest and darkest one three quarters way down the page is Muffin. The smiley face was my addition after I saw what she'd done. The one in the middle reminds me a little bit of John Lennon's Imagine album.



















Both Packrat and I were pleasantly surprised and it just adds up to yet another activity I wish I could afford to let her do more of, with better supplies and no fear of walls becoming fully vandalised!

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