‘apparently that was the starting point of being artistic’

the drawing   PART 1

You know, I don’t know what in­spired me to start draw­ing in the first place. But when I was two years old, and my lit­tle sis­ter was only about two weeks old, I start­ed draw­ing on her face with a ball­point pen.

I don’t re­mem­ber why I did that, but ap­par­ent­ly that was the start­ing point of be­ing artistic.

As I got old­er, I would draw pages af­ter pages of di­nosaurs or mon­sters, and I start­ed mak­ing up sto­ries of what hey where do­ing in my head. The only prob­lem was, I was still so young, I hadn’t learned how to write. So my mom would sit next to me and we would look at each pic­ture and I would tell her what was hap­pen­ing in the story.

We even made it into our own lit­tle book, The Snake Made Friends, and I must have been four at the time.

Kids can be cre­ative and so many things can be made with what­ev­er ma­te­ri­als are available.

And maybe I did have an un­der­ly­ing tal­ent for draw­ing all along?

My birth dad used to write as a kid, and my birth grand­moth­er en­joys paint­ing. My un­cle even likes to draw too so I guess there’s some­thing in our genes. Per­haps we just have re­al­ly ac­tive imag­i­na­tions that can un­leash all of the art­work and mu­sic that we have.

My adop­tive fam­i­ly is also very tal­ent­ed – most­ly with mu­sic – and that in­flu­ence can’t be over­looked. We still have an old CD of my grand­moth­ers mu­sic that we’ll keep with us for­ev­er, or at least as long as we can.

I’ve al­ways just had this urge to cre­ate some­thing that in­volves char­ac­ters and what they were do­ing; de­cide what they would look like, then imag­ine how they would be­have, what their voic­es would sound like, what things they’d be in­ter­est­ed in. And I’m still do­ing it today.

And some­where in there – in that sto­ry arc – I came to be­lieve that doves, snakes and mice can all end up happy.

If they’re at the right party.

 

to be continued —

 

—kait­lyn­jane

Flom­mist KAiT­LYN­jane has been draw­ing and writ­ing sto­ries ever since she knew how to scrib­ble on a piece of pa­per, or her sister’s fore­head when she was just two weeks old. Copy­right © 2020 KAiTLYNjane.

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