I had a little time the other day while paint was drying on another project, so the Woog wanted to make something. This time she picked out what she wanted to make first.

"You!" she said.
Ok, lets make Mommy. Then she picked out a few items this time and I created everything. Pretty smart girl for picking the "H" but I'm sure it was at the top of the pile! A nice little sculpture of mommy :)

By: Holli & Walker, age 3
A Girl Who Creates

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I had this idea come to me while creating the Lion in a flower jungle. Since, I love to make textile art scenes - I envisioned incorporating Kenzie into the process by allowing her to paint willy-nilly all over my fabric scraps. I chose a handful and just let what may happen. What a wonderful way to use up my "junk" pile of fabric scraps!!!

With no inkling of how to involve Kenzie in the sewing process - I just asked her the subject for the artwork. She said a snail. I envisioned it in paradise.

I think our future pieces will waft between the two styles we've tried this far. (not including those we imagine up in the future).

By:Stacy & Kenzie, age 3
Mama's Doodles

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Here's a project we did last week. We started off with:


I then asked her, what should we make out of all this?
"The circus!!"

So we're off. She paints the frame and then the paper under the frame, then the table, then her hand...ok we're done painting. While she goes on to destroy my studio and toys, dess-up clothes, etc. she checks in on the progress with comments such as "amazing," "beautiful" and "awesome."

And here's how it turned out:



By: Holli & Walker, age 3
A Girl Who Creates

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Kenzie, the youngest artist on this piece is nick-named the "doodle." We've borrowed Holli's style of junk-a-doodle making, but tweaked it a bit to include my fondness for textile art. An excited Kenzie sat down to a pile of "junk" and announced that we'd make a:
Lion in a Flower Jungle.

A detailed summary of our creative process is located at: Kenzie's Doodles .

By: Stacy & Kenzie, age 3
Mama's Doodles

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Just a quick project today. She picked the colors and stamped the wood blocks while I drew the dog.

By: Holli & Walker, age 3
A Girl Who Creates

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Here's what we started off with:



I then asked her, what should we make out of all this?
"Hey, there's a B!"
"Yes, that's a B, but what do you want to make?"
"A B!!"
"Like a bumble bee?"
"YEAH!!!!!"

So we're off. She's a little distracted by Dora (again) but she manages to paint the background and tells me she wants a blue bee (like the blue B I guess). She paints a little more and then just wants to watch Dora while she checks on me periodically.

And here's how it turned out:



By: Holli & Walker, age 3
A Girl Who Creates

Labels: holli conger

Here's what we started off with:



I then asked her, what should we make out of all this?
"Mmmmmm...how about me!"
"You?" I said
"YEAH! Hey, where's my nose?!" she yells.
"Umm...I'm not real sure where it's going to go."

Oh boy, how was I going to do this? While she paints the background, I play with the shapes to see how it would work. Ok, I got it! She finished painting the background and then moves on to dancing and singing to Johnny Cash (actually it's Joaquin Phoenix singing as Johnny Cash) never to return to helping me, but she does want to play with her little head I've made.

And here's how it turned out:


Her response: "Mama, how pretty! THREE! I'm three!"

By: Holli & Walker, age 3
A Girl Who Creates

Labels: holli conger

Here's what we started off with:



I then asked her, what should we make out of all this?
"A yiyon" she says (aka "lion).
I ask her what color it should be an she says orange. "OK, let's paint it orange."
She then proceeds to color and paint different pieces. Once assemblage starts, she looses interest in it and moves on to something else but she does check in with me from time to time to see it.

I start having my doubts about picking the light bulb because I have no idea where to put it. Ah, ha! The king of the jungle needs a crown! Perfect! And here's how it turned out:



By: Holli & Walker, age 3
A Girl Who Creates

Labels: holli conger

Here's how we did it:

I pick out several random objects:


I then ask her what we should make.
"Ahhhh, ummmm......a COW!" she says.
"OK. What color cow should it be?"
"wed" (aka "red")
And then we go from there with her choosing colors, painting and coloring and then I take what she's done and put it all together to where it's a cow.



Not bad for our first go at it. She giggled at the balloon :) Oh, and notice there's no blue button like in the first picture? Yeah, "we" lost it during our creative chaos. I wanted to sit down with her and look over the before and after to see if she could pick everything out but she's already onto Dora and snacks, so maybe later.

By: Holli & Walker, age 3
A Girl Who Creates

Labels: holli conger