The unique talent

There's something unique about my father's drawings. I've been uploading them for the past couple of weeks, and I will continue to upload them even after revealing what it is, because once you find out the truth you'll be even more amazed at his talent.

These two drawings are sort of a hint about it. Can you guess it yet?

I hope these two drawings don't shock any of my audience. I grew up with these drawings in my house, so I'm fairly used to seeing nude paintings. My dad likes to paint nude women. Of course, it's no surprise that I got some of his talent and feel equally attracted to drawing nude men.

My dad and I have identical tastes in art, which makes for a very special relationship between us. He's bought me all my jewlery and all the paintings hanging on the walls of my house. Almost all the art books on my bookshelves are from him. We both adore M.C. Escher and worship Salvador Dali. We love surrealism.

But there's something special about my dad's talent, that I don't know of any other painter who can proudly display it on their resume. You see - my dad is ... colour blind! He does not know what the colour green is. The two differently coloured words in the previous sentence are the same colour to him. He cannot drive in a city where the traffic lights are hanging horizontally. The green and red are the same colour to him. He cannot shop for clothes alone. He could not play Master Mind with me without me screaming "bloody hell, you're cheating!" He paints with the assistance of a colour wheel and a book that tells him what colour trees are, leaves, ground, houses, etc. He looks at the names on the paint tubes, but cannot take the paints out of a tube because that would confuse him with the other tubes.

And now that you know this, go back through all his drawings and notice what a genius mind can create without ever knowing what it looks like to the normal eye. These very colourful paintings were all painted by a colour blind person.