Last week I asked my son to begin teaching his brother the drums, and to help his sister fine tune her guitar skills. He is so incredibly gifted in music that it makes adult musicians jealous. He is now scoring independent films for a student in Jacksonville, so one would think he would be secure in himself to teach, right? Well, not quite. He was resistant and agitated about the idea, fearful that they would become better than he is. We got into a conversation about understanding that no two artists are alike and every artist handles the same subject matter in different ways with different styles.
To test this idea, I gave each of my kids a 12”x12” canvas and gave them the topic “The Lion King” (this was after many other ideas that were scoffed at). I asked each of them to paint their depiction of an element in the movie, in their own style. Matthew, my 10 year old was determined to do an “impressionistic style” landscape, his favorite style, with “Scar”. Mike and Jacqui painted“Timone”, and Ashley used mixed medium for “Scar” (paint and gum wrappers). The differences are obvious in their work, not just in different characters, but in the style of their brush strokes, choice of medium, and color. All I have to say is point proven!
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