Amy was taking her first Art class at school. She was very excited.
The Art teacher, Mrs Williams, told the children to 1
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the flowers in a vase at the front of the class.
"Don't worry if your painting doesn't look 2
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like the painting by the person next to you," she said. "The important thing is to paint what you see."
Amy worked very hard. She spent so long painting that her hand began to hurt from holding the brush. She put the brush down for a moment to rest and looked at the painting next to hers.
"That's really good," she said to Gina. Gina's painting was small and tidy. Every flower was just like the real flowers in the vase.
"Thanks," said Gina. She looked over at Amy's painting. "Oh! What happened to yours?"
"What do you 3
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?" asked Amy. She looked at her own painting. It was very different from Gina's. It covered the whole page and the colours were brighter than the real flowers.
"It looks like a big 4
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," said Gina. "Did you pour the paint?"
"No," said Amy, 5
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. "I paint what I see, just like Mrs Williams said."
"It's OK, you know," said Gina. "Not everyone is good at art."
Mrs Williams heard what Gina said, and she came over to look at Amy's work.
"Oh, my dear," said Mrs Williams. "I think it's wonderful, Amy. It's so full of 6
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and happiness."
Amy was very 7
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.
"But Mrs Williams, it doesn't look anything like the flowers you told us to draw," Gina said.
"Maybe not to you, Gina. Everyone sees different things when they look at the world." She showed them a picture in a painting book. "This is a picture an artist painted of his own face. This is 8
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he saw himself."
"But... but... it's just a few lines," said Gina. "It doesn't look anything like a real person."
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to Amy, "You should read this book, Amy. There are a lot of different kinds of paintings and one isn't better than the others."
That evening, Amy read all about the famous artists. Some of their paintings were very 10
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, but she liked to look at them all.
"I'm going to be an artist when I grow up," she said to her mother.