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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