"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up."
- Pablo Picasso
If you think back to when you were a child and drawing, colouring you never thought about something being good or bad. It was drawing. It was colouring. You did it because it was fun. We changed all that because of the expectations of others. We are told to colour within the lines. We are told that we don't draw dogs or animals or people well. Maybe you should do something more practical with your time.
Try an expirement. Squint your eyes hard. Notice how the colours blur out of their object. Its all a matter of perspective. So colouring out of the lines is really a matter of a different perspective. Darn all those adults who thought they knew better and forgot how to be kids.
Imagination and creation is play and kids are the experts on play. Its either fun or its not fun. Its that simple. So what do we do as adults? We need to play as children play. We need to go to a place where there is no judgments, just fun and experimentation with new things. Returning to our roots as children will keep our work alive and fresh as adults. We can learn again to colour outside the lines and forget the judgments and the perceptions drilled into us by well-meaning but conforming adults who let their imagination die within their own conformity. After all isn't that internal critic always an adult in some form? I've never heard of one being a child.
How will you play today?
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