Do you patronize kids and their crappy art?

[HEyHEY]

I'd like to, but I feel it's more important for a child to grow up in an environment based on honesty instead of illusions.

If their art sucks, I tell them.
:evilgrin:

[Cerridwen]

1. Well, my friends patronize my crappy art. Does that count?

:evilgrin:

[rainy]

2. by what criteria do you judge and what makes you an expert on

sucky art? The only way I see a childs art sucking is if they made it without the intent of making art.

[HEyHEY]

4. Hey, I step in shit I say "Fuck I stepped in shit"

[Paradise]

3. You're an art critic? ;) n/t

[HEyHEY]

5. Not professionally - only in bars

[skygazer]

21. Do you meet a lot of child artists in bars?

I guess they do things different up north....

[qnr]

6. I understand your point, but is that only if it is sucky, or if it is done

by a five year old, and it is sucky even for a five year old?

[HEyHEY]

8. Nah, on a professional level

I say "Kid I know talent, and you don't have it."

[SaintAnne]

7. kids

I avoid kids, I don't tell them anything. But I think I would try to be honest, however I have a terrible fear of making a kid cry. So I might just slap them on the back, and say "interesting..."

[qnr]

9. Yeah, I do that too. I look at a family picture, with mom, dad, the

kids, house, car, trees & sun --- and say "Nice dinosaur!"

[nutsnberries]

10. the great thing is,

they don't usually ask what you think!

the art is in the making... not what others think.
too bad that changes in us as we get older, and we get trampled by reality.

kids make, give. :)


now stop sounding like that dick - Cheney!

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

11. SO....

You'd tell me if my art sucked?

AWESOME. I love that.

[Wat_Tyler]

13. I would. If what you're doing is bad.

I would tell you it was.

[Philosophy]

12. Maddox?

http://maddox.xmission.com/irule.html

[Wat_Tyler]

14. I often tear up their ham-fisted pictures in front of them.

It's a cruel world. The sooner they learn, the better.

[traco]

18. I am so glad you live in Canada

I don't ever plan on visiting or moving there. So at least I know you will never be able to destroy my childs sense of accomplishment.

It's only a cruel world when people like you make it that way.

[HEyHEY]

19. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA

Get. A. Sense. Of. Humour.

You really think Wat would do that?

[traco]

20. I didn't see any sarcasm tag on his post

and I have never met the person. So I couldn't tell you one way or another if he would or wouldn't. I'm just responding to something he says he does.

[name not needed]

22. Boo! Grr!

I'm gonna come destroy your kid's self esteem!

Ahahahah!



:evilgrin:

[Gyre]

15. I do if they're in grade school.

After that they're on their own.

Gyre

[Rabrrrrrr]

16. Life is too short for crappy art

To hell with it.

[yellowdogintexas]

17. It is important to appreciate what they do no matter what

Really, if I had treated my daughter's young art like that it could have caused her to quit drawing.

She is really quite good and we encouraged her. We did not tell her she was the greatest artist in history, but we praised things like her use of color, her perspective, whatever piece of improvement or originality she showed. And she continued to improve and in middle school won several art awards. By that time her confidence level was up and she just took off.

BECAUSE her teachers were telling us that she was doing things the other kids were not even thinking of, we knew we had to encourage her.

Besides, from the time she could hold a crayon she was obsessively drawing. They need to express themselves!!!

[bigwillq]

23. It may be only your opinion that their art sucks

I think you should be encouraging to a child when art is concerned. No matter what they make, good or bad, it came from their mind, their imagination and their heart and I think only something positive and productive can come out of that.

If you think their art sucks, you should be honest. But try not to discourage them from creating.

Say something like-"I don't really care for this project but I'm sure many other people will like it."

This way, you're being honest but you're not going to send the child into tears.

[HEyHEY]

24. I'm going for tears though - builds character

[bigwillq]

26. Meanie

:)

[ScreamingMeemie]

25. Funny you should ask...sigh.

Just encountered this this morning. James (age 6) and I were making foam cut outs of Christmas Trees and Wreaths for him to decorate with a bucket of foam shapes that I had bought for him. I, of course, had envisioned perfect wreaths with little red holly berries placed in an artistically sporadic fashion. The same with the ornaments on the tree. James had other plans. Like lining the shapes up in a line that bisects the center of the Christmas tree and stripes of squares across the wreath. "No! No!" I shouted. Then thought better of it. I said, "That's absolutely perfect", all the while cringing. Twenty years from now I will adore these decorations. I take that back. I adore them already. :hi:

[lumpy]

27. I love children's art.

It is honest art, unfettered by imitation and phoniness. You might say it is artless, without artificiality, simple and natural, original, without guile or deceit.