Couldn't wait, again.... This was SO much fun! (Oil on canvas.)

Thank you, Ushna.
I still remember all their personalities .

Thanks, Jim. I know we all approach our jobs in different ways. My theory is that, it being said so often that we migrated for my future becoming a teacher was a little extra important. Made it by the skin of the teeth. Was completely involved in it.
I’m sure there were lots of people whom I did not (always) please but I reckon that it shouldn’t be so unusual that I now have this collection of memorabilia.
When I did (part of) the art teachers conversion course, I had a friend whose paintings were spectacular but he was very happy to put them down, himself because he realised they were chocolate-boxy / Women’s Weekly he used to call them. Too much like a perfect three-dimensional photo. We used to have great discussions about art and teaching. The term: _chocolate-boxy has stayed with me.
Thanks for taking the time to read!!

Thank you, Sooz. It wasn’t all perfect, but put me in the time-machine, back to 1975. (Plus the school before that one! So: 1969-1975. The next one was such a come-down! Not because of the kids!!)

It was such organised chaos, Margpie! About every second or third weekend, I start to go through my memorabilia, looking for a subject I might like to have on the go, to take to Hazelhurst, at 12:30 on Tuesdays.
I go through a lot of them and some pictures I keep coming back to.
Yes. They had heard the call of those dances so often, they could sing them but it was more the giggling as the tangles developed, while learning the moves.

Thanks Gili. They’re just good to have. Those memories. The energy made it such fun.

Thanks Karin. Connects a bit with your little figures having fun, I hope.

Bedankt and thank you. Now it’s time, today to search for a similar subject, as it’s Friday. Time to get a new one going. Have canvases the same size and a bit of a series, of, say three, seems in order.
Hope all is well. Nogal stil van jullie zijde.

Thank you, C.J. A bit hard to top, at the moment. Nevertheless have just returned from the shop, with more brushes, white paint and canvases.

Thank you. Yes. I’ve explained already. It represents the lively three years that I spent, at that school. There was so much energy!!

Funny how this is the reaction I am now getting so often, Melissa.
Thank you.

Thank you, Marion. Can’t go back. This was about 33 years ago.
Good memory to have, though.
Thanks for your visit.

Thank you, T.G.. Things really clicked, in those years. Funny how it was captured, at the time and preserved on such a smile piece of slide/positive film.

THanks for that Colin.
I have reformed, a bit, since writing that. Turned over a new leaf. Bought a couple of (to me) reasonably, expensive brushes and the cleaning medium and have looked after them for a couple of weeks now.

Thanks Karön. Funny how it is now such an honour to be thought of as painting in an impressionist style, after the way in which that movement first started!!

Thanks, Eva and Klaus. It’s the one that gets the most attention. Now I shuld try to do something similar or better!
Thanks for taking a look.

Thank you, Neil.
Now, if I could only repeat this.
Have currently come to a stand-still, as far as painting is concerned, after the fun of the exhibition/birthday, highlighting this painting.
Only ONE of the (now 23 years older) children, there that day, may possibly have seen this via the internet.

Thank you, Lynda. Just goes to prove that the paintings that people react to and seem to like most are the ones where there was a memory of good times associated with the piece.

Thanks, Sue. It’s interesting to find out which paintings grab people. It strikes me that two of the three most commented on, are based on pictures from1975. The seventies were definitely the years when I was in full flight, teaching.
I have no doubt that I did not please all the kids and parents, during those 37 years. Clicking was so often a factor.
I have stacks of pictures to select from, as subjects but hard to find another that fits like this situation did.
Appreciate your kind words. Handing our kids over to teachers to be influenced by is such a lottery. I was so lucky!!!!! with my primary school teacher, Mr Berretty, in Gouda!!

Thank you. As I keep writing, it was such a fun time. It’s surprising that I did have the two photos to base it on.
I was in there dancing myself, most of the time. It was always so much fun, when, in the beginning there was usually a tangle when the call on the record confused the kids.
But it was also so good when it all worked and they got to the end without getting mixed up.

Again helped by the situation, mike.
The lighting, in the quadrangle of the school, between the buildings.

Thank you, ToTs. That one felt good, like a few others. Just waiting to be done.

Remi agrees!

Thank you, Carole.
Have you square danced?