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Art collab with my 6-year-old daughter
As I mentioned a few days ago in another post we are currently being very creative at home, both my daughter and I are creating cool things, if I may say so myself. I blame the excitement and pre-inspiration on the upcoming emigration to Spain. I feel so much lighter since the date has been chosen, the tickets have been booked. Knowing that soon we will be back in the country that I missed for 4,5 years is enough to get my inspiration flowing again. It makes me so happy and it's noticeable in the creative flows that appear more often.
Today I want to show you the first actual art collab that I did with my daughter, in terms of me starting the artwork while she finishes it totally how she decided to do so. I have not interfered with her part of the painting at all and I actually felt this might be a very cool one once finished.
How it began
Once upon a time, there was me, all excited to create things with my watercolor pencils from Faber Castell, they are so nice! But there's also me that just tries something without knowing the actual technique of a medium and hoping it turns out nice enough to share with the world. I have no actual knowledge about how to draw and paint and such other than by trial and error. Often this means that I get stuck on a drawing or painting, this one was no different, I will show you where I stopped drawing and coloring:
As you can see, I did some coloring but plenty of the colors was a bit disappointing (read: the way I mixed them haha) and therefore I never finished it. It must have been in the box with unfinished drawings for two years at least now. While I'm going through all these items to sell or give away, the box with unfinished paintings and drawings was opened and that's where the idea started to ask my daughter if she'd like to finish it. She was all excited and so I let her pick some acrylic colours to start painting.
We started with these soft pastel colors but at some point, she requested red and a few others. Let's check out how this painting slowly turned into a finished artwork thanks to my very creative and patient daughter. She took her time for this one! It must have been two hours at least and she was totally zen while doing it. I loved seeing her paint this way!
Here's the artist to work for some Proof Of Art / Proof Of Paint, whatever you prefer!
And here's the end result:
Now that's what I call a very cool artwork! I told her this one was going to be minted as an NFT, she was very proud, I can tell you. She has heard us talk about NFTs a lot and I told her I'd create a post about the painting as well as mint it so that someone can buy it. Of course, she couldn't wait, even though it took me a few days to do it.
Tokenizing the art on NFT Showroom
I wasn't quite sure anymore on how to create the thumbnail, and although I followed the size directions in the FAQ on the website when I uploaded it, it was very low quality while the original image is sharp. Therefore I thought, let's just upload that one and hope all goes well.
So as you can see above, it shows a perfect image, so I thought this is great! But then I checked the page with freshly tokenized art:
Click here to buy this NFT :-)
And as you can see the image is turned there. Hopefully, someone can look through this little error I made. I'm sure I will figure it out at some point, haha. Luckily you can see the image correctly when you click on it.
I decided to mint 2 editions
Why 2 you may wonder? Well, I want to keep 1 edition of all our art collabs so that in the future, I can send them to my daughter. I envision us creating artworks for many years to come and this way we can slowly see her growth while she learns new things I would love for her to have the full collection even though we may end up not having them all offline as well. I minted 2 editions and kept the number two for ourselves while listing edition 1 for 33 Hive.
Why 33 Hive? Because I think it's worth that and my life path number is 33, I thought I should keep it in the double digits as it's a master number. If you want to support this cool kid of mine by buying this work, make sure you grab it as there is only one of these babies for sale. I think if this one sells, she will be so proud! She was glowing when I showed her that this one was minted and listed for sale. Will never forget that cute face of hers when I showed her earlier today!
Credits
- All images are my own.
- The text divider is my own design, where I sometimes use images from Canva Pro or in other cases, my own images.
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