Comments on: Things People Say (When They See You Painting)

By: eolai

eolai — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:50:51 +0000

Martha - I don’t believe they ever have. Mind you in fairness whatever they saw may well not have been marvellous.

Jennifer - Ah yes, I’d forgotten, I’ve had the “Did you do that?” question too. I may even have responded “No”.

ProblemChildBride - Clouds are a very emotive subject, though ironically there is a lot of grey area.

Medbh - When there’s more than one person watching they often talk to each other about your painting as if you’re not there. That’s endurance, that is.

By: Medbh

Medbh — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 01:06:48 +0000

I enjoyed the one from the guy who said you’d like his wife. Was that an invitation?
Hee.
Your examples are illustrative of the suffering artist syndrome because you have to endure all manner of stupid jerky comments, Eolai.

By: problemchildbride

problemchildbride — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 08:04:19 +0000

Are you not putting any clouds in?

That’s my favourite.

By: Jennifer Bowman

Jennifer Bowman — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:39:56 +0000

I know I’m dangerously close to sounding like one of these comments with mine, but I so enjoyed this! I have spent many hours at my mom’s side when she was painting somewhere, and yes… the comments are priceless. We’ve heard many of these. “why are you painting that horse blue when he’s white?” “why doesn’t that girl have a face?” One of mom’s favourites is, “Oh cool, you paint. Can you draw too?” One of mine is, “Did YOU do that?!?!” While she is standing there doing that. why yes, sherlock, what was gave it away?

By: martha

martha — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 01:17:47 +0000

Doesn’t anyone ever just say “Marvelous!”, and then leave you alone?