She told her daughter that she had been planning to add a body to the woman’s face she’d just drawn.<\/p>\n
“Well, I will do it,” her daughter declared resolutely, and she grabbed the pen.<\/p>\n
One page<\/i>, Mica resigned \u2026 I can sacrifice one page<\/i>.<\/p>\n
She didn’t anticipate the absolute wonder of what came next.<\/p>\n
“I had drawn a woman’s face, and she had turned her into a dinosaur-woman.\u00a0It was beautiful, it was carefree, and I LOVED what she had created,” Mica admitted.\u00a0“Flipping through my sketchbook, I found another doodle of a face I had not yet finished. She drew a body on it, too, and I was enthralled. It was such a beautiful combination of my style and hers. And she loved being a part of it. She never hesitated in her intent.\u00a0She wasn’t tentative.\u00a0She was insistent and confident that she would, of course, improve any illustration I might have done. And the thing is, she DID.”<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Image courtesy of Mica Angela Hendricks via Busymockingbird.com<\/p><\/div>\n
Take a look at some of the magnificent illustrations that resulted from this mother-daughter collaboration and read more about what Mica learned from letting go of her artistic reins in her original post<\/a>.<\/p>\n \t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What might happen if you were to hand a piece of fine art to a 4-year-old \u2026 who is armed with markers? Magic, that’s what. Illustrator Mica Angela Hendricks confirmed this in a positively picturesque blog post earlier this year. … Continue reading