Nudge 22, Inspired by Children (more)

Hi all, just checking in with you to share a couple of links regarding the very popular Nudge 22.

Here you can find the notes from a Frida Kahlo based project that I did with the 5-10 year olds in my summer library program "ArtEscape."

Jill Berry has shared some of her kids art on her blog here. I particularly love this page.

Jill's son Sam, is the artist responsible for Fish Boy. Gotta love those teeth and the way the hair echoes the teeth. Sam was most likely not thinking "I can't draw a fish boy." Kids' art sure makes me happy.

Jane LaFazio runs an afterschool program for underprivileged kids call "Mundo Lindo." So, if you are kid-less, no need to steal one (hahahaha Hannah and Gina).

Oh yes, and if you haven't see enough of Teddy (my ginger kitty) here are some more antics. I'm the proud mama, what can I say?

Nudge 22, Inspired by Children

Here is my page from last weeks' I Spy nudge. I collected a bunch of red things and then, well, then I made a red painting of me. I challenged myself to just use red, brown, black and some quinacridone gold (acrylic paints). I challenged myself to take about a half hour. 

Nudge 21, I Spy Red

Cassie gave a great idea last week in the comments. She is inspired to use her child's artwork in a collage. I love this. Children's artwork is so fresh, playful and natural. Wouldn't it be great to go back? Well, let's do it!

Nudge 22: Inspired by Children

One of the challenges here will be to try to work intuitively and organically. Kids are fearless. They don't wonder if they can draw a tree or a butterfly, they simply draw it. Can you free yourself up to do this? There is much symbolic drawing with kids. A house is a rectangle with rectangular windows and a door. The ground is on the bottom of the picture and the sky is at the top. Simple, right?

Here is a link to the Global Children's Art Gallery. You may get inspired there. Or maybe inspiration is right underfoot? If you have a little one around, get out the crayons and draw together right in your journal. My kids used to love to do this. Scattered throughout my old sketchbooks and journals are priceless bits of drawings made by my kids. My son loved drawing penguins.

This is gonna be a good one!