Making Things Colorful: 3 Artists (and 1 Non-artist)
I used to wistfully wonder if Charlie, whose interest in colors and shapes is longstanding from his youngest days, might have some affinity for art—-for looking at it, and perhaps even for making it. As it is, Charlie, except for some months when he was learning to color, is not at partial to art. He has art class once a week and now brings home large rolled-up sheets of stiff paper filled with a mass of brown or brownish green and, once from the bottom of his backpack, a cone-shaped sculpture with boggle eyes and a feather stuck in the bottom (it’s a bird! I said in an aha! moment on seeing a bit of smashed in orange under the eyes). (As his teacher noted to me today, his real preference is to paint himself—his hands—-rather than the paper.) Art class used to be a very difficult time for Charlie, due to the different room with its strange smells and textures and stickiness and layout of the furniture, the less-structured format, his uncertainty about what to do with pots of paint or globs of clay, and I have been very glad to see him able to manage being in this sort of setting.New Vista is a school in Laguna Hills, Orange County (California) for students with autism, Asperger’s Syndrome, or other special needs; the artwork of three students was chosen to be displayed in the 1,000 Works of Art, which features work from students from all over the US. Here is what three students from New Vista have to say about art and their art, as noted in the May 16th OC Register.
- Emily Simon (8th grade) adds texture and color to her abstract pieces by grating crayons with a cheese grater and then melting the crayons with an iron. She says “‘”‘The Snail’ was my first one. I did a kind of a swirl, and it came out like a snail. Up by my home, we have a lot of (snails) in the summer. My mom doesn’t like them. She makes me throw them in the trash.’”
- Katherine Brashears (8th grade) most paints Disney princesses, flowers, and herself and is often so happy when painting that she bursts into laughter.
You can see one of Katherine’s self-portraits on the OC Register article.And the smashed-beak bird has found its home on a shelf with Charlie’s clothes.
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