Creative Genius?

Apparently Amanda has mad art skillz.  That means she's really, really good.  Well, according to one of her teachers anyway.  I wouldn't know.  All she draws at home are pictures of unicorns.  Flying unicorns, not flying unicorns, unicorns standing under a rainbow, but there is always a unicorn.  The only reason I know what they are is because she draws them ALL THE TIME, not because they are a perfect depiction of a unicorn.  But at school they make her draw other things, so I guess they get to see more of what she can do.  There are some artists on my mom's side of the family, so I guess it's a possibility, but I'm not so sure.

I picked her up at school today and Amanda was all excited to give me this:

It's cute, but it looks like your run of the mill pre-school picture to me.  Something that I will throw away sooner than later.  But her teacher starts telling me how amazing it is, all the while Amanda is dancing and singing on the carpet in her own little "artistic" world, because she didn't leave any white space and the lines are perfect and every section is a different color and she takes so much time and care to color everything.  Huh?  So this isn't what everybody else's whale looks like?  I guess not.

Her teachers told me the same thing last year.  That they would always show her art as an example to the class and how they would always put hers in the center of the board because it was so good.  I don't see it.  It honestly looks all the same to me.  But, her teacher told me today that she has worked at that school for eight years and Amanda is one of the best artists to come out of there and that I need to hone her artistic abilities.  Before I had a chance to even think she was pulling my leg her other teacher said the first teacher rarely gives compliments like that and pretty much tells it like she sees it so if she says Amanda is amazing than she is.  Huh again.

I hope nobody comes back to me years from now and asks me for her pre-school art so they can say this is where it all started, because most of it's going to the recycling plant or the dump.  I just can't keep it all and I don't care that much.  But maybe I'll start a folder on the computer and take pictures of it just in case.