Collaborative Art is a critical part of what we do here at Little Pulp. For six years, we’ve been developing paintings and papiér-mache pieces with all the kids that attend our workshops, parties and class trips. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t - but it always leads to something interesting.
Every once in a while, I ask kids to doodle something in My Daily Doodle Book. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t - but it always leads to something interesting. Today, for the early party (Happy Birthday Thylane!) - I asked the kids to doodle something on this page (I had already doodled the date and that green squiggly pattern of lines). My guess is that they did not want to mess with my squiggly lines - so they opted to doodle some stuff on the adjacent page. I was hoping they’d doodle within those squiggly lines.
I meant to ask the kids, for the afternoon party, to doodle on this page - but got side-tracked and forgot. Sometimes I remember, sometimes I forget. (Happy Birthday Cassidee).
This evening, when I got home, I layed on the floor to finish up today’s doodle - and decided to hand-letter bubble letters within the squiggly lines. Lochlan thought it looked cool, and suggested I keep writing words. I told him it was not easy. “So, draw some animals” were his exact words. I went with giraffes.
As I write this, I just came up with an idea to add some more squiggly lines to the adjacent page and tie the whole spread together. Sometimes I end up following through on these late ideas, sometimes I don’t.
Point of this story - if you are doing a daily doodle - ask someone to doodle on a page in your book and let them do whatever they want- then do something to it. You just might surprise yourself. I did.
