Mosaic Art Inspiration

Although my 6 year-old son is slightly colorblind (browns and greens look the same to him) he has a definite gift for COLOR and for patterns. I like to think he inherited that from me, although he definitely did not inherit his knack for numbers from me. Over Christmas vacation, my son Campbell was often at my design studio while I worked packing and shipping boxes. Luckily my studio is chock full of markers and color pencils from my Parsons school days so there was plenty of creative tools to keep him busy. Without any guidance, Campbell proceeded to create these intricate pattern drawings in rainbow colors that were completely mesmerizing to say the least (see picture above.)

I've since learned from his First Grade teacher that he's been a trend setter in school with his rainbow pattern drawings. The class is divided into tables of 4 to 5 kids and every few weeks they rotate students. The teacher would notice that all the worksheets and drawings from a certain table each week all had these rainbow patterns on them (sort of a signature style for the table.) So where ever Campbell went, that particular table would adopt the "rainbow mosaic" style of drawing. Too funny! That's my boy!

In any case, I'm very proud and now you know why my son Campbell has always been a source of color inspiration for my Stacia space-dye designs. Future fashion designer, probably not, but surely a future engineer is brewing in that boy's head.