by Sara Woolfolk
  | Fellow mommas, how many times a day do you hear, “What happens when you mix blue and yellow?” Red and yellow? Blue and green? For me, this has been the topic of conversation on every car ride for what seems like forever. Every possible combination is questioned and scrutinized. Yeah. It got old. |
I knew The Boy was trying to sort it out.
Every chance he got, he mixed colors. Paint. Colored water. Those colored bath fizzy things. Tubes of food coloring he got out of the pantry while I was in the shower. (Good times)
Every chance he got, he mixed colors. Paint. Colored water. Those colored bath fizzy things. Tubes of food coloring he got out of the pantry while I was in the shower. (Good times)
 | And it usually ended up a big pile of brown-ish black-ish mess. Give him a palette with the primary colors on it and it got swirled into a big pile of mud. Every time. |
I tried hard not to correct him or over-instruct him about the mud making. Really, who cares if everything he paints is that same mud-colored shade. It was starting to grow on me.
I was starting to buy home décor in earth tones to match all the art on the fridge. In the words of Pete the Cat, it’s all good.
 | Then all of a sudden it just clicked. One day, he said, "I’m going to make purple." I watched him pick up a paint brush and stick it in the blue paint. I thought, "oh boy, here we go, bring on the mud puddle." He pulled a little blue paint to the middle then washed his brush and grabbed some red and mixed a perfect little purple pile of paint. I couldn’t believe what I was watching. |
Then he painted one hand red and one hand blue and rubbed them together to make purple. It was deliberate.
It was amazing.
You know what else? I haven’t answered a single question about what happens when you mix blue and yellow or red and blue or green and orange since.
It was amazing.
You know what else? I haven’t answered a single question about what happens when you mix blue and yellow or red and blue or green and orange since.
 | Miss Sara is a founding team member at ORANGE EASEL. She is a mom, an amateur photographer, a children's church leader, a graphic designer, and a big kid at heart. She has a Bachelors of Science from Northwest Missouri State (Journalism, with an emphasis in Design). Prior to her career as a stay-at-home mom, she worked as the creative services manager at The Kansas City Star. ORANGE EASEL Classes: Lil' Artists PreK and Open Studio Art |
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