If this isn’t the ultimate mother/daughter bonding, we don’t know what is.
Ruth Oosterman, a Canadian artist from Toronto, has just started a new series of artwork called Collaborations with my Toddler. The series consists of her two-year old daughter, Eve, doodling what she desires on a blank page, before Ruth creates amazing pieces of artwork out of them.
Starting with just a black felt-tip pen, Eve draws whatever she likes. Ruth then finishes her drawings by adding pain… and her own artistic ideas.
Ruth feels that that her personal style has been greatly changed since collaborating with her daughter, and that she has been taught to let go of control to to be open to every and any possibility that could occur during an artistic process.
On her website, she wrote:
As we get older, we tend to create this box that everything is supposed to fit neatly into, all of our ideas and goals in life… Read the full story