The Blue Period

The Pickle is studying Picasso in her pre-k 4 class this week. She was full of descriptions and factoids when she got into the car yesterday describing Picasso in great lengths. She asked me if I knew about his Blue Period when "He painted everything that made him sad, blue." When they had the opportunity to try their hand at a Picasso-style masterpiece of their own, she painted mountains and birds and a river running through the whole picture. She was very proud of the fact that she only used blue colors for her painting. (Which in and of itself is amazing because Pickle is usually firmly planted in the pink end of the spectrum.)

She called it "The River of Sadness."