When blogger Mica Angela Hendricks sat down to doodle one day, eager to christen a new sketchbook, she hadn't counted on the fact that her four-year-old daughter was equally eager to make her mark.
Initially Hendricks tried to divert her daughter to her own drawings and markers, hoarding her 'adult' sketch to herself. But her daughter was having none of it, even insisting that, "If you can't share, we might have to take it away."
Yep, Hendricks had obviously taught her daughter well, and now those mommy morals were coming back to bite her. She had no choice but to relinquish her sketch of a lady's face.
According to her blog in the Huffington Post, she couldn't have anticipated the result of the collaboration. Not only was her daughter confident in her vision, Hendricks loved her contribution, which only enhanced her own.
"Do you have any heads for me today?" her daughter would ask every morning, before putting on the finishing touches to her mom's pictures. Hendricks would then colour in, and presto!
Sometimes (OK, most times) our kids are the ones who have important lessons to teach us. In Hendricks' case, she learned not to be so rigid about how things must be done. Once you let go of your preconceptions, beautiful things can, and often do, emerge.
The pair went on to collaborate on several awesome original works, which are now for sale at Society 6.
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