A Collaboration with my Toddler "Prince of the Wild" by Theodore & Ruth Oosterman I was so excited for this particular collaboration because I felt it represented Theo's wild personality and I was able to maintain his original and spectacular paint strokes. He is really into mixing colors to come up with new combinations and trying out different brushes lately which makes for...
A Collaboration with my Toddler "Guardian" by Theodore & Ruth Oosterman Collaborating with another artist is an extremely delicate balancing act. Not only must you maintain their original brushstrokes as the foundation of the piece but also include their vision by intertwining it with yours to create the collaboration. It is a story being told by two people as their imaginations embark on...
The painting on the left is one I did of Eve in 2013 when I had just begun to dabble with watercolours and the one of Theo on the right was painted just yesterday. Do not give up. Practice. Even when you don't want to and especially when you think you'll never get better. Those moments of self-doubt are powerful, if you succumb...
