Very Van Gogh

[This is one of the first drabbles I wrote, and it was a part of the Cardiff Project of the Burrow.]

“Very Van Gogh”, John Wilson

 I could paint like that when I was a child — carefree strokes, bright colours, passion oozing out of every pore. Some of my lines went beyond the outlines, all the area was not always coloured, but you could tell how I felt from my paintings.
Then I got an Education. I was taught to see things the way the books said they should be seen. I learnt proportions and compositions. Was trained to reproduce lines, to break an image down.
Now they tell me I have to unlearn it all if I want to become great. Great like Van Gogh.
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A drabble is a story told in exactly 100 words.