My daughter loves to paint and so we have been exploring watercolor for a few weeks. A few days in, I started seeing things in her work and decided to draw out a few.

Rules:

• I must preserve M’s chosen orientation of the paper
• I get one shot, so I don’t use up all of her paintings and send her the message that her work is no good
• I get 3 minutes, although I think I can keep it at 2  30 seconds, maybe 1 minute
• My work cannot overshadow hers: it must be equal in terms of effort and coverage (I did that a couple times and it made me sad)
• For her third birthday, I will give her the option of drawing on my paintings so we both have the same opportunities
• We plan some of the images, depending on M’s interest. If she does not have a preference, I get to do whatever I want.

Collab 011016 18″ x24″ or so First directed painting from the easel: “Monster Watching TV” Sorry they are not as cleanly shot, it’s hard as I cannot scan them. And I picked it up before my ink was dry. M though it was okay, although I had to move the TV from where she said it was.

Collab 011016

I draw on top of my daughter’s watercolor paintings, per her instruction and a set of strict rules.

I have upgraded us to watercolor paper and better paints and have started scanning these for a later collection of some sort, maybe a book for M when she is much older.

EDIT 121115: Madelene has started to give me specific paintings, with directives!

I am also starting to give Madelene some of my paintings to draw on, will post them here.