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   ♠Lonewolf♠ said, 14 days ago

   C’mon Ruthie, you can do better than that. This is Cylene!

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   Macushlalondra said, 14 days ago

   I don’t think she means that literally Ruthie.

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   Coffee-Turtle said, 14 days ago

   LOL!!!! This strip is all about literalness!

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   Susan001 said, 14 days ago

   There is an adage:

   “He who works with his hands is a laborer.
   He who works with his hands and his head is an intellectual.
   He who works with his hands, his head, and his heart is an artist.”

   So I guess heartless Cylene isn’t an artist!

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   Joe Allen Doty said, 14 days ago

   Apparently, Mrs. Ensminger doesn’t know how to talk to six year olds about art. She’s probably has her own art studio.

   You can mix powdered color pigment with egg yolks to get a tempera kind of paint. But, I would rather just use commercially made tempera paint.

   Mixing paint with brains does sound gross to most folks, no matter what their ages.

   Cylene is an uppity snobby brat. Her family’s income status is higher than Ruthie’s.

   Oh, I know how to talk to 6 year olds about art since I had experience of teaching art to 1st graders 5 days a week during the school year of 1965-66.

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   Josh 1360 said, 14 days ago

   Hey Joe Allen, that was my first year of school!

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   bald 716 said, 14 days ago

   all i remember doing for art in 1st grade art was making things out of paper and paste or felt material

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   Joe Allen Doty said, 13 days ago

   Oh, we did craft work, too. Officially, I taught arts & crafts to grade school students in that town. That did include what bald716 remembers doing.

   But, I taught Art which did include some craft projects at the high school level.

   I found a craft project in a children’s book where sawdust and wallpaper paste were to used to make heads for hand puppets.

   I decided to use that method and I made a marionette, not only using the sawdust/paste method to make the head but the body parts, too. After the head was molded and it was dried, it was to be sanded down smooth and then painted with facial and head features.

   I showed the high school students my creation and had them create their own marionettes as an art assignment.

   All of the class had great results and one of the girls made a little old Black man who was bald on top and had white hair. It looked like she had used a real person as her model and created him to scale. She did get an “A” for her project, too.

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   mrprongs said, 13 days ago

   Hey, in Washington Post’s version of this, Cylene’s a redhead, and there’s a blue background. http://comics.washingtonpost.com/11comicsone-big-happy.html

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    Destiny23 said, 13 days ago

    Most people have grey matter. Cylene’s is pastel…