I think this thread is heading about the way I expected. Collectors provide a valuable service, but the world has become a lot more rigid in some respects than it used to be. We all know people who must have written rules in detail to do even the simplest thing....lest they "screw-up." We are a much more rigid society in that respect and its a shame.

My son Michael is (I've been told now by several art professionals) a real prodigy. I felt that way myself about him. One thing that he and I talked about was not worrying about what he did at school. So at school he makes the leaves green and the flowers red and then creates some unbelievable thing on the back of the paper for his own amusement. Needless to say the "Art teacher" (?) doesn't appreciate this anymore than she does his "enhancement" of her other projects. Pathetic ain't it? He no longer worries about doing well there.....just comes home and sketches up some great stuff!!!

Spaw