Most moms just hang up their child’s doodles and finger paintings on the fridge, but what this mom does with her daughter’s art will make your jaw drop!
When Ruth Oosterman’s 3-year-old daughter Eve started noticing her mother painting, her interest in art was piqued. Since then, the Canadian artist and her daughter have been working together to create a series called “Collaborations with my Toddler.”
Each piece begins with Eve, who uses a felt-tip pen on paper to create the bones of the painting. “As all of our collaborations start, my [then] two-year-old creates her own sketch with an ink pen, which I then use to turn into a watercolor painting,” Oosterman told Bored Panda.
“The sketch is completely her own with no instruction given from me, I simply use her creativity to inspire me to create a painting.”
“I try to work quickly and let imagination and play take root into the painting rather than taking it to seriously, this way I can encourage Eve’s contribution without making it too ‘grownup,’” Oosterman explained.
“As Pablo Picasso said, it can take ‘but a lifetime to paint like a child.’ I feel so blessed that my daughter can remind me once again what it is to paint like a child by letting me see through her eyes,” Oosterman said.
Watch the video below to see how this mother daughter duo create these magical works of art.
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[Featured image credit: Ruth Oosterman]