Kay’s Korner
I have always enjoyed making things with my hands, and using different media. I have done woodworking, sewing, painting, baking and other projects. I want to try more, with metalworking being at the top of my list.
I have nothing on my sister, however.
My sister is hands-down the single most creative person I’ve ever met. We both get it from our mom, but I’ve never seen anyone make something out of so little the way she does. She’s a first-year art student at Angelo State University and she wants to be a storyboard artist for the Walt Disney Animation Studios. How cool is that?
I’ve seen her make fairy wings out of cardboard and plastic wrap, wire-and-cotton creatures and tiny clay dragons that wrap around your wrist. She painted portraits of some of our favorite Disney characters for me to use to decorate my first college dorm room’s walls, and she also painted a canvas with one of our favorite quotes as a graduation gift. It was from the musical Wicked — “So much of me is made from what I learned from you. You’ll be with me like a handprint on my heart.”
I just about cried in front of the whole graduation party when she gave it to me.
She creates original characters and is even trying to write a screenplay with dialogue and musical numbers that she may animate on her own.
We each have our strengths, but she’s good at, well, pretty much everything. It’s insane.
She doesn’t usually ask for help with anything because she knows exactly how she wants things and is much better at visualizing her ideas than I am. But every once in a while she gets bored and asks me for ideas for her next drawing.
She doesn’t usually like my ideas. They tend to be a bit silly and she usually rolls her eyes and says she doesn’t even know why she asked me.
But every once in a while I have a good idea that she takes and runs with. The movie she wants to animate is one of them. Or rather, the idea for the characters. Like I said, she took it and ran.
She still has a lot to do before her semester ends. She’s not too happy with having to move to online classes, which is understandable because it seems like art classes wouldn’t transition online well. Many of the projects and competitions she had planned for other classes were cancelled, so she’s had to come up with other ways to occupy her time.
For some classes, she has to show 15 hours of work, which she could probably finish in one sitting if she were in the mood.
The other day, for one of those 15-hour projects, she painted on my back. It was really cute, a picture of a cat knocking over a cup and a whole imaginary world spilling out.
Unfortunately for her, I am extremely ticklish. I thought I could handle just the paint brush bristles, but I was very wrong. I spent most of that hour involuntarily tensing up at the worst moments, but it looked cool when she was done.
I can’t wait to see what she comes up with next.
Kaylee Rush is a staff writer for The Snyder News. Coments on this article can be made at lifesyles@thesnydernews.com