A world of Color

I read a story today that got me to thinking about crayons. I didn’t realize that it wasn’t until 1958 that Crayola crayons added 16 new colors to bring the large box to 64 shades. Those of you who have children should be familiar with this size box. Before 1958 there were only 48 standard crayon colors (one for each state at the time?).

Some crayons got more use than others. My early artwork included lots of blue skies and green lawns and even some brown trees. I always found white was the hardest color to work with.

Sadly, I have no copies of anything I colored as a child, but I have many examples of the artwork of my children. I trust they will appreciate this some day.

I have always been interested in recycling (even before that term became commonplace). Many of the drawings of my children are on the backs of old court calendars I saved from my days working in a courthouse. This was my attempt to reuse paper and save trees. It was also because I was cheap and real paper cost money. I recall one time when one teacher wondered why there were words like robbery and assault on the back of the drawings. I guess teachers didn’t have to worry about supplies because they didn’t pay for them.

As I said, I don’t have any copies of my artwork as a child.

I wish I did.