"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist when he grows up" -Picasso. "Every child is an artist". Printed and laminated in colourful letters in school art rooms around the globe. And some of those art rooms will also be decorated with lovely anchor charts and rubrics - you can go check 'em out on Pinterest - carefully instructing the children (who are already artists, according to Picasso) how to do it right. One of my (not!) favourites is the rubric insisting that kindergarten children should use "colours that make sense"! (Suns are yellow apparently and trees are green and brown, not purple with pink spots and blue stripes).
That's the solution to the Picasso Problem. Permission to PLAY! It works for responsible adults too. Want to step up your own creativity, activate the happy, healthy endorphins, give the muscle between your ears a valuable work-out, give your worn-out grown up mind some necessary R&R - give yourself permission to play. Diarise it or Google Calendar it, if you must be all grown-up and schedule-y. But just do it. For the fun of it. Because it's good for you. Play is something you should definitely take seriously! You know there's loads of research. This one's a good place to start “Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.” - Kurt Vonnegut. So what's next? Ready to play? Check out my previous "Snap Happy" post for some ideas or just grab some crayons and get started. Yes, crayons. They're not just for kids. Permission to play, remember? Just have fun with it. More about crayons next time. Meanwhile, in the tradition of Eric Carle (and Franz Marc) on a scrap of Kraft paper, here's Skippy in Blue!
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