Challenge 44 - Flower Children

FFFC Challenge #44 - Flower Children April 2010 Hostess Ann E. Ruthsdottir

Intro: The idea started with an old book I have called, Bird Children by Elizabeth Gordon, copyright 1912. I have the forty-first edition. Ms Gordon is the author. In much smaller print is the artist, M. T. Ross. The book is nothing without the art work, so this surprised me when I finally noticed it. Because this is a book I have always enjoyed for the illustrations alone, I was very surprised that the artist got so little credit Just recently I read some of the verse. However, the big discovery came in the last six months when I noticed on the title page, “The Little Playmates of the Flower Children”. My interest peaked, I went on-line and found absolutely beautiful colored drawings. What other flowers could be 'children'.?

As a person 'of a certain age', I remember Woodstock and flower children. I was neither a child or a flower, but I did wear flowers in my hair. Because the book seemed too limiting, I thought to broaden the challenge.

The challenge theme: is Flower Children: either developing some new 'flower child' similar to the book OR relating to the 'flower children' of the 60's OR, better yet, some inspiration of your own which incorporates one of the basic ideas of the theme.

If you do not feel comfortable painting children, please try turning a fabric print into a flower. For example, a face could be the center of a daisy. In the same vein, a photo could have fabric added to become a flower child.

Colors should be cheerful. No dark, dismal colors, gray or grayed shades.

Techniques should be dimensional, either by inference or in reality. A 3-dimensional sculpture might be the outer limit; the inner limit being a shading to create depth.

References:

Links to Flower Children book drawings. http://tinyurl.com/2vsj3b2
http://tinyurl.com/35j9hdu http://tinyurl.com/325za8z

Photographer Anne Geddes: babies in flowers http://tinyurl.com/263cubw

60's flower children images [Please note that we didn't have color film then, so any color images were 'staged' later or colored later.] http://tinyurl.com/383gufl
http://tinyurl.com/327fmgv http://tinyurl.com/35s9anz

This outfit is soo weird. Yep, I had something similar. GAG! http://tinyurl.com/3958hly

For those of you too young to remember, a little history http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippie
http://www.laurelrose.com/FLOWERCHILDREN.HTM http://tinyurl.com/2g4zytq
http://www.zazzle.com/hippies+posters

Book by Maxine Swann might give you some ideas: “Sweet child of mine; In her lyrical new novel, Maxine Swann describes the highs and lows of a hippie childhood. ”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxine_Swann

Want more images, check out fotosearch http://www.fotosearch.com/photos-images/flower-child.html