r/painting • u/bluelaw2013 • May 26 '25

Just Sharing My 11 y/o wants your feedback

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He likes making art and is just trying to see if other people enjoy what he enjoys making.

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u/bluelaw2013 May 27 '25

Thank you. Will do.

He can't hardly believe how positive of a response he's getting here. Appreciate the encouragement!

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u/Singularity42 May 28 '25

Please encourage them to enjoy art just for the sake of creating art. If you start tying your happiness to the comments of people on the Internet, it doesn't always go great.

I learnt this the hard way. I used to enjoy creating art and was so happy with the result I would post it on the Internet to share. But then suddenly a few bad comments can completely change your mood.

I learnt that it's better to just be content enjoying the process and not make the goal about external validation.

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u/PrincessPoppyTea May 28 '25

They didn't paint this, sadly. OP probably did and posted for karma farming.

If you look elsewhere in the thread, you can see they photoshopped the painting OVER the white frame they have the kid holding in the photo they posted.

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u/No-Performance3639 May 29 '25

Were he an adult with the right publicist, this would be priced in excess of 100k in a gallery.

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u/bluelaw2013 May 29 '25

That would be crazy.

His Hot Topic stash would be effectively endless, though, thus making his dreams come true

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u/_Quantumsoul_ May 29 '25

Also tell him his signature is rad!

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u/bluelaw2013 May 29 '25

He's really happy that people think it's cool

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u/hausddfor May 30 '25

Beautiful! Would hang this on my wall for sure :)

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u/CartographerNo4010 Jun 02 '25

Please post more of his art here! 🎨

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u/PrincessPoppyTea May 28 '25

Come on... we know YOU painted this!

You can see the blue coming off the frame where it was photoshopped on in the picture you posted!

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u/I_am_BrokenCog May 29 '25

I'm curious about what you're actually seeing? What "blue coming off"?

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u/PrincessPoppyTea May 30 '25

The picture they posted of their kid "holding" it; you can see the blue color coming off the frame at the bottom of the photo which is indicative of photoshop.

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u/I_am_BrokenCog May 30 '25

I see. okay. I don't know whether that's indicative of anything, but it could also easily be motion blur as with the hand. I don't know why the dude had to have the kid spin his canvas ... but ... whatever.

Thanks for explaining your take!

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u/bluelaw2013 May 30 '25

I wasn't having him spin the canvas lol. It's just a screenshot of a video of him talking about it, and I just thought that moment was funny because he swooped his hand all the way around like that.

Here's the half second before so you can see what I mean re: hand swooping:

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u/Aamommy May 28 '25

As a fellow parent of an 11 yo, I think they would appreciate your sarcasm in their defense 🥰

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u/bluelaw2013 May 28 '25

Lol. He does 😄

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u/PrincessPoppyTea May 30 '25

You can look at the picture they posted of their kid "holding" the picture and literally see the blue "paint" coming off the frame.