I taught two classes every Wednesday morning for the pre-school students at a local day care center. At noon I held an additional class for Kindergarten students that arrived at the center for after-school care. Early in the school year a concerned mother brought her son Sean and registered him for Young Rembrandts. (www.youngrembrandts.com) Sean told his Kindergarten teacher that he did not “do art” because he was “not good at it.” He commented that his friend David was the artist, not him. This very wise mother did not want this wrong label limiting her child so she came directly to our class that day to enroll him.
We were learning to draw a fish the day Sean joined the class. He worked alongside the other students including his friend David. One step at a time they all drew fish, adding colorful patterns, seaweed and details to complete their underwater scenes. In the coloring portion of the class the children learned marker and coloring techniques. Sean completed his colorful piece. As we stapled and mounted our finished work, Sean looked around and beamed with pride. When his mother arrived, Sean greeted her, “Mom! Mom! Look, I am an artist!”
