Imagination Game

When I was very young and my grandfather was very old we played a game that he taught me. He called it the imagination game. My grandfather would take a blank piece of paper and with a pencil he would make a mark or a few marks on the paper. He asked me not to think about anything as I looked at the paper and the marks he had made. Instead, he asked me to draw what I saw and not what I wanted to see. I loved my grandfather and I loved the game as well. I still play the game over 50 years later, only now I play it without my grandfather making the initial marks, or maybe in some way he still does. Here is one example of what happens when I play.

GREETINGS - 16 X 20 - Oil on Canvas

Thu, Jan 3, 2008  Permanent link

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