Question: Why children paint trees blue or grass red?

Sounds interesting but a subscription to New Scientist is needed to read the article.

Or maybe they draw it that way because they haven't been influenced to draw it the way it'd be more widely accepted.

This is an article you can read without a subscription.

Who is that a picture of in your av, Ozzie bloke?

Is it somebody famous?

Its a "memory" of the future that has been implanted in them.

Watch the movie "Knowing" with Nicolas Cage.

really?I drew stick figuares and colored outside the picture with accidental scribbles...

whats that mean?

Perhaps, the human mind has resources unpredictable especially when you are so young.

maybe cause its funny. when i had english fill in the blank work i used to put the wrong words in on purpose. "The tree is purple" killed me XD

"an artist will paint the sky red because he knows its blue- the rest of us will paint it blue because we don't want anyone to think we are stupid"

some artist quote i remember

Colorblind.

She is one of the abductees whose drawings are on display at aliensandchildren.org -

[link to aliensandchildren.org]

Certainly become famous.
Sorry you've changed your name? I remember your avatar with ID The doctor?

For your question, contact Vanessa R. Simmering
[link to psych.wisc.edu] thanks for the comment.

great fun putting the wrong words, I do often.

Maybe that's the only color crayons they have.

Answer is too obvious but it is not, is more scientific. Thanks for the comment.

Are you color blind?
[link to www.planetperplex.com]

Maybe they are recalling a lifetime on another planet where the trees are blue and the grass is red.

Everything is possible, thanks for the comment.

:spookd:

Nope, I was never The doctor.

Maybe, because they think it's pretty?

Sorry, I wrong to let the comment was not for you. You are a painter?

Nope, I am not a painter.

but I am and I am an art teacher who teaches children to paint.

Teach children to paint? You can confirm whether small trees color blue?

Who are you? :-)

Remembering back....

When I painted things the "wrong" color I was either trying to be different and not one of the group OR...

I had issues with the paint or crayons.

I remember being forced to stay in at recess with a VERY angry teacher repainting a picture because the grass in it was bluish purple.

The fact was, I just didn't know how to mix blue and yellow to make green and the Yellow had been mixed with other colors anyway, so I ended up with brown grass.

That was marginally acceptable apparently, but that teacher DID try to have me places in special ed...

Luckily my Mother said NO. :)

It turns out that my I.Q. was simply off the scale In a positive direction and that the teacher couldn't understand me because I was more intelligent than she was.

Go figure!

Later, over the course of years, I did learn to paint with the "right" colors and dumb down the things I was saying so that I was understood most of the time.

[link to aliensandchildren.org]

Something about this picture radiates deeply within me. As soon as I saw it I got the tingles.

:lolboots: