A Mom and Her 4-Year-Old Daughter Have Collaborated On Some Surreal Art
Mica Angela Hendricks, an illustrator and graphic artist, has been collaborating on drawings with her 4-year-old daughter Myla since August, and the results are pretty surreal.
Hendricks used to stick to Rockwellian female heads, replete with perfectly ink-shaded curls, and then pass them along to her daughter for a judicious application of oval bodies and bright colors. But these days, she also draws animal and monster heads under her daughter's direction.
"My job will be the monster head, and Myla will say 'it should have one eye, big horns, and rabbit ears,'" Hendricks wrote in an email to Business Insider. "When it's her turn, I'll tell her what to draw, and that's sort of a fun twist, instead of doing each part independently."
"The most important thing I've learned from her is not to worry so much about the end result," Hendricks wrote, "and just enjoy the moment and not to be so rigid with myself."
Myla took an orange marker and completely covered the woman. Hendricks said it sat around like that for a long time because she couldn't figure out how to make sense of it, until she thought about adding highlights and making it evident that the woman was a caterpillar waiting to turn into a butterfly.
