Creative Freedom

For some reason, painting on paper wasn't doing it for them today.

 They had to paint themselves...or maybe Eliz is considering auditioning for the BlueMan Group?

 I guess Xander wanted to go Tribal...or he just felt like highlighting his hair.

 He mixed his colors until they made brown.

 I think she told me what the white globs were, but I don't remember now.  It reminds me of Ronald McDonald, but she doesn't know who that is, which makes me feel old. 

I taught art for several weeks for our Homeschool group this semester.  One day a mother told me I did a good job.  I was a little confused, and asked what she meant.  She said I did a good job of letting them be themselves and do their own thing.  Which I got from my mother.  As a young teen (13-15) when I shaved part of my head and dyed the rest of it crazy colors, she let me.  When I used permanent marker to write/draw on myself(14-17), she didn't seem fazed-as long as it wasn't inappropriate.  I wrote poetry(my own and other people's) on my bedroom walls(13-18), and she suggested I draw a frame around them.  She was strict about some things-curfew, dating, how I allowed people to treat me, but when it came to self-expression and creativity, anything worked, because she always said, "There are no mistakes in art."