The Wonderful Word for This Wednesday is “Collaborate”.
Don’t you just love those moments when you and another like-minded person collaborate on a common goal? The ideas get flowing and you are able to bounce off each other’s thoughts and get going in whole new directions.
When we collaborate with others, we go places we can’t go on our own. There, take that little nugget and tuck in your back pocket!
Here are the top 2 definitions for ‘collaborate’ on Dictionary.com:
- to work, one with another, cooperate, as on a literary work.
- to cooperate, usually willingly, with an enemy nation, especially with an enemy occupying one’s country.
Number 2 surprised me! And just so you know, that is NOT how I am using it here.
A Collaboration With My Dad is born:
I have been having a lot of creative fun making black and white inked floral prints from pics of flowers I’ve taken.
BUT, the other day I had a ‘DUH’ moment when I realized I had the gold standard of flower pics right in my house! My dad is a nature photographer for crying out loud in the night! AND, every year for Christmas we get a beautiful book of his photos. I have Volume I-V right on my bookshelf!
So, I started pouring through them and of course I found a gazillion beautiful floral pics that were perfect for my current creative outlet. How special that I could do a collaboration with my own dad!
I called him up and asked how he would feel if I used some of his pics for my inked creations. He said he was honored (insert warm heart smile here) and our collaboration was born.
You may have seen these drawings before, but you may not have known the back story.
Then I started to do a black and white of this dahlia and crumpled it up and threw it out, it demanded color! So I got out my watercolors and painted. So. Much. Fun. I love how it turned out.
Pretty special dad/daughter stuff huh? I think so! I thought I was going to do all black and whites, but now I’ve decided to let each flower speak to me and see what happens!
More to come as I get time to play art. I have a dream to make one of those photo books WITH my dad someday. It would be his beautiful photo on one page, and my rendition on the other. What do you think Dad?
I’m pretty sure he thinks it is a good idea (wink).
That’s it for this Wednesday friends. Now, I must get to work learning Adobe Illustrator. My family may find me huddled under my desk quivering later as it’s a STEEP learning curve!
Kimberly Snider, Virtuoso, signing off
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