I came across this project today called Colouring in Kingston. It has been created by Kingston School of Arts students Izzi Toovey and Josephine Miller. They are digitally recolouring childrens’ drawings and presenting them on Instagram.
It is especially interesting as I am seeking ways of collaborating with participants in this post COVID world. Playable Streets has created Playable Web as a platform for somewhat similar collaborations. Kidstruments and Exquisite Stories are two works that we are currently presenting based on works that had been developed pre-COVID.
One thing that we have found has been the most tricky part of these collaborations are the instructions! Here are the instructions for Colouring in Kingston. They are clear but quite a large document.
It will be interesting to see how this sort of collaboration evolves and develops in the future.
A picture by 10 year old Josh (right), and the digitally coloured version created as part of Colouring in Kingston.
The images are being used to create posters for Kingston Council to ‘spread messages of health, wellbeing and our environment’