I really enjoyed these, as a kid. Now we have apps that will create a painting from a photo. Times have certainly changed.
We used to get a lot of these as gifts when I was very young in the ‘60s. My mother’s rule was we could paint anything we would like with them, except the outlined subject provided
— so as to encourage our own creativity.
Times have certainly changed.
Have an older astrologist friend, she bemoans that in the old days you got out the star books and did a reading based on the birthday, time and location, it would take a few hours but you would slowly see the “personality” of the people coming into focus. Now she says there is software and you get the same results but it takes 30 seconds and there is no joy in it.
I think that is what is so missing in our society, there is so little craft-work or hobbies anymore to give simple happiness.
Which ones? I have a picture of the beach I want to make into a painting.