Words + Images

I have a young friend whose favorite color is white.  I discovered this information one day as we sat on the floor with a basket full of crayons and I asked her, “What’s your favorite color?”  At first she said, “All of them,” but then she shook her head and said with great certainty, “White is my favorite!”

Now, many months later, even as we sit with a blank piece of paper and draw bright multicolored rainbows and she describes her favorite blue birds and we talk about the purple of Peep’s friend Quack and so on and so forth …  Well, if I should ask about her favorite color, she will look at me with a twinkle in her eyes and say, “White.”

So for the holidays I am putting together a custom book of white images for this young lady.  If you’re familiar with my style then you know I am mostly drawn toward illuminated colors but as I peruse my portfolio, I do see a few white images … of sorts.  Plus I am inspired to take some new pictures.    I’ve already started a list:  white feather, white rice, straight pasta, curly pasta, boiled eggs, crumpled paper, sugar, vanilla ice cream.  Other ideas of items that might visually interest a child? 😉

Every image I find, I won’t necessarily share with a four-year old, but so far it is a very fun project to review my work … and to create new work … inspired by such a young friend.

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