family fotoplay

Today in my inbox I received three Fotoplay pages, from a wonderful illustrator who lives near Montreal. Annick Gaudreault, along with her daughter and her husband, downloaded the first free Fotoplay page on my site, and created the works you see here in this post. Take a look at the sensitive work above, created by three year old Agathe. The colored stripes; her patterned orange line work on the right; those curious long blue lines with circles at the bottoms (legs and hoofs?); and those flowers…

Above is the work created by Agathe’s Papa, David. Do you see those little figures climbing up the back legs?! And the stripes that evolve, as they move to the right, into staff lines for music… How about that pink bow? I think that without the bow, the work would be missing a key component of the overall design. It’s as if the bow literally ties together the whole beautifully designed page.

And this is Annick’s drawing. I love how she created the patterned hilly ground for the zebra to walk on. The more I look at this work, the more I feel a kind of energy moving up and down, from the ground into the zebra, and from the zebra down into the ground. It’s as if by walking, the energy of color and pattern was transferred into the zebra’s body. Or, as the zebra moves over the land, that energy moves down into the ground and enlivens the ground and the flowers blooming up from it. I wonder if Agathe was working beside Annick when she created those firecracker flowers. I wonder if they were working on their flowers at the same time…

Merci beaucoup to Annick and her family for sending such lovely work!