The first thing that came into my mind when I hit the play button, was “this is morning.” Soundroll’s instrumental song, Your Inspiration, really was to me as the title named it. I immediately felt excitement, happiness, and like the start of something new. I could “see” the sun peaking through the window and felt a childlike pleasure. I immediately knew what I could draw, because it was what I felt, and I wanted to make it clear through what eyes we were looking in the picture. Not “looking through” literally, but “with the feeling and attitude of.” I used pencil and a selective use of color to show the innocence and softness, yet attention and excitement of a child through the adventure of each new day.
Children get into a lot of trouble and like to get their way, but despite all that, they are the sweetest, most innocent, and most pure delights on Earth. I felt like pencil captured that softness and innocence. My light sketches show the simplicity of young children as well as their purity and innocence. They are still learning everyday and know only the outlines, the basics, of a few things in this great big world around them. Their knowledge is incomplete, yet it shows them the basic idea of things they are so curious to learn more about. My pencils drawings are not detailed or exemplary, yet they show the idea they are supposed to contain. My pencil strokes are pretty soft, without harsh lines, just as children are not hardened or set in any position or attitude. They are always looking to understand more and are so accepting of facts told them by parents.
As everyone who knows anything about young children know, kids have very selective hearing and sight. They are easy distracted and drawn to things that are different, colorful, or move. I tried to draw attention to things that would draw the attention and fascination of children, by coloring them. Just as Annie Dillard states in her article Seeing, there is so much to be seen and experienced, and what you see depends on what you look at and look for. Edgar Allen Poe spoke of this human condition in his story Message Found in a Bottle, as he realized that the sailors we walked among could not see him no matter what he did because they did not expect to see him. Children see in a way that is very different to adults, and the pops of color draw our attention to the exciting, the colorful, and the fun that are there to be seen if we look for them and study them as Dillard, or really, as a child would. This song, Your Inspiration, reminded me that magic and innocence can once more enter our lives if we see the world with the eyes and excitement of a child.
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