The Blondster has won an award for her art. 
She won the City of Alexandria Award for her self-portrait (it's in the picture, between two of her abstracts). It's kinda cool, because she had to be chosen to participate in the gallery showing, and then to win from that selected group was really something for her.
I'd like to bow and take credit for all of this, I really would, but as my stick figure drawings are disproportionate and Quasimodo-esque in their collective attractiveness quotients, I can't.
My father, however, were he alive, could take a big, proud bow, as this vein of artistic skill was passed down (skipping a generation) from him. He painted as a sideline all the time I was growing up - made some decent money, every once in a while, painting abstracts on huge canvases, on commission, in the 1960s.
How about you all? Any relatives with talents that skipped a generation, or that seemed to appear out of the blue?
Monday, March 30, 2009
Awards Don't Suck
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Oh, congrats! How exciting for her!
My grandpa wrote columns for local newspapers his entire adult life, but neither of my parents enjoy writing. I suppose I can claim that?
This is seven kinds of awesome. Congrats to the Blondster!
Sincere congratulations -- the painting is awesomely good.
Unfortunately, I am the generation that talent forgot, so I'm hoping my offspring will develop something.
My son can shit in a variety of artistic colours and can projectile spit-up across a dining table -- does that count?
Congrats Blondster!
Awards! Yay!
That is really cool. But I think you might have given her some of the abstract talent, Robin. After all, if you can make a stick figure Quasimodoesque, then you've got some talent.
My older son has quite a lot of artistic talent. I can sketch a bit, in either a cartoonish or engineering kind of way, but my wife tries to draw an owl and it looks like a Mr. Coffee. It's her dad (my father-in-law) that had real art talent. Professional graphic designer and illustrator. That totally skipped a generation in my wife's family and emerged in my older son.
Congrats to blondster! Being selected as winner among elite company is prize indeed.
Well done to the Blondster.
When I read the first line of your post I thought for a minute she's carved the bloke next to her out of wood.
But no — art.
No-one in my family wrote, but there is a theatrical streak I tap into from time to time whenever I find a stray hat or cape in the street and there's no-one looking.
Thanks, you all!
Kiersten, maybe that DOES mean a skipped-generation thing for you!
Sounds like it to me.
I love "seven kinds of awesome" freddie - thanks!
ril, I think maybe your son has a future as a Dadaist. So to speak. But I don't think talent skipped a generation - maybe only in the fine arts (of shit and puke goodies and other non-acrylics).
Thanks, BT!
Ha, Pete, with the Mr. Coffee! I never won Pictionary - ever - because my partners never knew what the hell I'd drawn.
Whirl, you ARE the culminating dramatic gene in your family. There surely was someone back in the Whirling genetic mist that had it, too? And about the guy in the pic- I forgot to say- he's the city councilman who handed Blondster her award.
Congratulations to the Blondster!
My daddy could play any musical instrument he picked up within a few minutes. I watched him do it time and again with a variety of instruments, including piano, guitar, accordian, harmonica, and a few others I don't know the names of.
Regrettfully, while I enjoy music immensely, I don't actually make music with my bass or harp (when I had one). I make sounds.
Son, on the other hand, appears to have great musical talent. His band instructors want him to audition for the state band.
My inheritance comes from my grandmother, who was a prolific writer. But my mother writes, too, so I can't say it's skipped a generation.
Yay! Congrats to the Blondster.
Wow Blondster! Way to go! That is really cool.
I can draw - sketch really - I'm good with pencils but I can't paint for toffee. I think this ability came from my mother's side of the family as lots of my maternal cousins have an artistic streak but apparently neither my Mam or her siblings seem to have had it. My Dad has a lovely singing voice but sadly it didn't get passed to me but my two older children sing very well.
As for writing - I think that it probably came through my Dad's family. My Gran was a bit of a thespian and very "artistic" (my mother's description meaning a few sandwiches short of a picnic). I have a cousin who is an actor/playwright/ screenplay writer who has had two of his films win copious awards (they went to Cannes and Sundance among others). I often wonder when I look at my stuff which is 90% dialogue if I shouldn't write screenplays too.
Getting the right kind of encouragement when you're young makes all the difference though doesn't it?
Hi Bevie,
Sounds right to me, skipping or no skipping!
Thanks, FH,you sweetie!
And yes, I agree, Janey - both about the encouragement and about the -WOW - your cousin has won awards at Sundance and Cannes???!!
So cool!
In all seriousness, maybe you should go for screenwriting.
No no - he showed at Cannes and Sundance and he won a pile of different awards. This is him.
Wow. Very cool, Janey!
This is soooo soooo awesome!!! You must feel very proud as well...
:-)
Thanks, Chris!
I'm watching Hell's Kitchen right now. I swear I think Paula is gonna win, which is neat because she's the one JB's friend knows, down in Miami.
Anybody around tonight???
Awards are cool. Congrats to the Blondster.
There's some sporting ability kicking around in our family. It completely skipped me, but Soccer Boy appears determined to make amends.
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