Sativa's Art

This venture has taken hours. But I am SO glad I am doing it - because I've revisited the phases of her art - I wish they were in actual consectuive order. I'll narrate them. When she was small, we lived in a pleasant but sort of slummy apartment with a big kitchen with yechy brown linoleum floors. We had a tiny table in it. I used to give her real art paper (8 1/2 by 11 cut in half) and squeeze out a whole bunch of watercolours onto yogourt countainer tops and set her loose with a paintbrush. She basically used every colour, swirled it on the paper, and then declared herself done. The pictures that look like rectangular coloured paper, with rich splots of colour she did when she was 1. When she had used every colour, she would be finished and go play with something else. Her sense of completion came when she had touched every colour of paint with the brush. Then came the filling of the entire page at 2. There was a difference for her between paint drawings and marker/crayon drawings. With paint, she continued to paint to the edges of the pages; with markers, she tried to draw details and thus began the Oobits (see below) - which were her protozoan-like drawings of life forms which eventually evolved into people. When they did evolve into people, you will see long, lean bodies, always hair splayed in 2 directions, dresses, and sometimes wings, big hands with splaying fingers. I always thought Sativa's people drawings were pretty unique. She drew her friend Eveline below somewhere, colourfully, and the first foray into the difference between her art of people who looked like us and dressed like us to drawing different people she knew. As I upload more photos and observe things, I will write them down.