Do you maybe have sky colour?

I occasionally do creativity “preservation” sessions with kiddies. They are wonderful to work with. I once had a little princess (Isabel) and her chess-champ brother (Adam) over. They made this beautiful castle:

with this beautiful damsel:

and this super-strong superhero on his way to save the day:

We made our own custom tower-heads and carriages. When Isabel wanted me to pass her the blue she asked: “do you maybe have sea color?”.

How nice to see the world in your palette.

Then there was Emily the three-eared giant (so that she could listen better) by the lovely princess Isabel:

She is bigger than my husband (what he wouldn’t do for me:))

I recently had another little girl that came over for the second time. The first time was a little bit hard on me, because the little one didn’t speak a lot, which meant, I had to balance out the conversation ALL IN GERMAN (whew!).

So, we set up another date to play and wonder.

This meant getting ready. In preparation, I read the german version of “The Little Prince” aloud to my husband at breakfast in an attempt to loosen the tongue a little, should conversation be up to me, you know? I also removed gold from the palette for the session, as, in our first session, she made EVERYTHING in her best-loved color: gold:).

We decided to make fantasy animals, by drawing our favorite animals, cutting them up and using their parts to create our own animals.

Now, with gold removed from the palette I wondered what was coming. Surprise number one: she talked!! Yay! Then she made the most beautiful peacock, an oh-so-cute owl, a butterfly, a horse within a camp (so that he couldn’t runaway) and a flamingo with an egg hanging mid-air (so cute!!!!!!!).

As you can see the animals are super-cute. I felt nervous…

Would she really want to cut them up?

SO, I cut my animals up and glued my new animal friends into shape. When she was ready I assured her that she didn’t have to cut them up if she didn’t want to. And, to be honest, not sure I would’ve had the courage if they were mine… Then, without any hesitation, she cut off the legs of the peacock!!! [shocked!]

Here are her fantasy animals:

Strutting Rorse and Flutterfly

Flying Chorse

Flamingowl with magic wand (the pink oval shape was the flamingo’s egg)

Yes, ladies and gentlemen: that was natural creativity for you in action.

We can only learn from them.

play for all & all for play

-liesel-

ONE

As an artist I seek inspiration all the time. I dream of being in the presence of my muse…. Sometimes it is high tide and other times I maybe have one idea. The problem with having one idea is that there is just ONE. And according to this wise person:

“Nothing is more dangerous than an IDEA when it is the only one you have” – Emile Chartier

Whilst respectfully waiting for Madame Muse to invite me over, I am looking into my ONE idea:

ONE as ITSELF

Neatly nestled in between “oncoming” and “one another” in the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English.

one adj. 1. Being a single entity, unit, object, or living being.                                                     -The Free Dictionary

ONE as a DAY

Today. There’s just one.

“A life lived for tomorrow is crappy today” – Chris Baréz-Brown (author of How to have kick-ass ideas)

ONE as a GIFT

“You’re gorgeous, you old hag, and if I could give you just one gift ever for the rest of your life it would be this. Confidence. It would be the gift of confidence. Either that or a scented candle”

– David Nicholls, One Day

ONE as a SONG

One from the album It all starts with one by Ane Brun

REVOLUTION FROM DREAMS! (from the song)

ONE as the ROOT OF UNITY

Now, technically this is a mathematical term, but don’t you like the ring that it has to it? Among us are those that already realized that making change happen is rooted in unity. When we stand as one, we can make a difference.

ONE to look out for

A lot of you have met the Bhoomies. Now, just to warn you, there is ONE. She has fallen. Don’t let her trick you. The mark of the Bhoomie that she is carrying, is interchangeable. What happened to her is almost unspeakable – she became ugly on the inside!

Should you come across her, it might help her when you switch your inner light to its brightest emergency setting.

So, as the saying goes: “One for all, all for one!”