Print Design for the kids
Designing for kids or creating prints catering to that particular area has always been a challenge for me. Doodling or complicated damask, pen and inks are my comfort zone. I actually do not have to think on those subjects, but to create a format or motif for kids takes me months to come up with. I still have not figured out why so, but I would like to blame it on the "designers have their own niche syndrome" which brings me back to my post as to why I decided to indulge in the area that forces me to "brain storm" at the first place. As a mother, when I sit with my girls to draw with them, sometimes they would ask me "mamma make me drawing of a dog or cat etc. and like all parents I oblige, the drawings are rarely accurate (we all aren't natural Da Vinci's here) but the caricatures or flat two dimensional images made my kids happy, they would color it , keep it, collect it. What intrigued me the most was that the children recognized the animals w