A lady that we go to church with named
Joyce has been "giving" art lessons to Kael for almost a year. She
thought that Saturday would be an excellent time to try something big with
Kael. She has been giving him instructions (as best she could) during
church services. We have a rule that he has to stop when we pray and he
has to draw something to do with God the Bible or what he learned about in
Sunday School class (no robots or Ninjas LOL) It has been very hard for
Joyce to get any kind of REAL instruction to him although he has some
amazing talent and picks up on it with her subtle hints
Joyce had Kael watching some
Bob Ross painting videos. I told him he may want to get in his head
what he thought he might want to paint. He said "I already know." I
told him to watch a few more and then he could decide. The next day I
told him to keep thinking about what he might want to paint and he
rolled his eyes and said "I already told you I know." and he sketched
out his idea...so he wouldn't forget. When Joyce got to the Garage sale
she handed him some Bob Ross instruction books and told him to pick
something out that he thought he would like to paint. Again with the
eye roll. But I already know what I want." And he started explaining
it. She asked him to look in the books and see if there was anything
similar so they could get the right paint colors and a little help with
some of the instructions. Kael was giddy and giggling looking through
the books and was back in a matter on 2 minutes. "It's this one" and he
was pointing to a picture that he had described.
Even a few sprinkles can't
stop this kid. They set up a tarp and his friends stood around and
watched. Kael started working around 10am and Joyce had to make him
stop and eat lunch! As soon as his sandwich was done, it was right back
to painting
And he is still going.
Joyce said he only slowed down and seemed tired once in the FIVE hours
that the painting took. Once he got his second wind he was off and
running again!
Towards the end Joyce was
having him mix his own colors. Kael was talking about this side of the
tree trunk needed to be darker because it was in the shade. Background
and foreground and there needed to be more pink on this side of the
clouds. Joyce often says, "This kid is amazing!" By the way she was
having him paint on a REAL canvas and using oils not acrylic.