My artist tribe nudged me along to make some pages about myself. This one was my first. I decided it would make a good habit and challenge, so pages like this one about me would be a new addition to my art mix.
Blue is my favorite color except when red is. Or almost any other color. When I was a kid I wasn't allowed to have a favorite color. If my brother was handing things out and he asked me what was my favorite color, I would pick a color and he would make sure that I didn’t get that pencil or crayon or whatever it was. I learned to be very flexible about color.
Later, he was gone and I got my first glasses (I was very close to legally blind) I discovered that I loved vibrant colors I had never seen before, and for years I drove my best friend crazy with my exclamations about what he thought was normal.
I ended up pretty confused about my favorite color and when people would ask me I decided my best answer was sky blue pink and that actually later described sunsets and turned out to be true.
What a story about your youth--my sister had a very similar experience--after getting glasses she found all sorts of wonders that she had never seen before. I don't think families had their eyes tested as a matter of course as they do now. This is a lovely, very personal page.
Beautiful pages and storytelling. This reminds me of how I found out that I needed glasses ... I am thinking you may have motivated me to tell a story.
