Creativity has always been part of my life. Our Little Art was born from the meeting point between art, technology, family, and the free way children imagine the world.
Creativity has always been part of my life
My mother was an artist.
So I grew up in a house where drawing, painting, and making things with our hands were part of everyday life. Art was never something distant or reserved for especially talented people. It was simply a form of expression that was there, all around us.
My career eventually followed the path of technology.
I have worked with software for many years, but curiously I have always gravitated toward the most visual side of it: interfaces, experiences, digital products, and everything that lives exactly where technology and creativity meet.
And I never stopped drawing.
Drawing is still one of my favorite hobbies. Sometimes with a specific idea, sometimes simply putting something on paper because creating is fun even when it does not need to lead to a finished result.
Today I am lucky not to do this alone.
Now my children draw with me
I am the father of two children who are growing up surrounded by pencils, paper, paint, music, and all kinds of small creative experiences.
We often sit down together to draw.
And maybe that is one of the parts I love most about all of this: watching how a child creates before starting to worry about whether something is “right”.
A circle can become a character. A few lines can be a house. A strange shape can have a huge story behind it.
For us adults, it may be just a drawing. For the child, there is an entire world happening on that piece of paper.
My wife also loves art in almost all its forms, and we share a strong idea about childhood: we want our children to have time and space to create.
That also means not automatically filling every free moment with a screen.
We prefer a table covered with pencils. Paper. Scissors. Glue. Paint. Instruments. A little mess.
And above all, time to imagine something and try to turn it into reality.
That is how Our Little Art was born
Our Little Art was born much more from this family experience than from a business idea.
On one side there is the art I knew through my mother. On the other, my professional life building digital products and working with the visual side of technology.
And now there are my children, discovering drawing, music, and creativity as they grow, often sitting beside me doing exactly the same things I love to do.
At some point I realized I wanted to build a space around this.
Not to teach children how to draw “correctly”. Not to turn every drawing into something perfect.
Quite the opposite. I want to celebrate that stage when drawing is still simply imagining.
There is no wrong drawing here
A tree can be blue. A person can have giant arms. A dog can have five legs.
And that scribble nobody understands may have an absolutely fantastic explanation when the child starts telling the story.
That freedom is part of what makes children’s creativity so special.
Our Little Art exists to help parents, grandparents, uncles, aunts, and other people close to children nurture that curiosity.
With drawing ideas. Activities to do together. Experiments with materials. Simple ways to bring more creativity into everyday life.
And also ways to value what children create.
Because that drawing will not exist forever
I have a special relationship with children’s drawings precisely because I see my own children growing through them.
The drawing changes. The way they hold the pencil changes. The stories become more complex.
What today looks like just another sheet of paper on the table may, a few years from now, become a very special memory of that stage of childhood.
That is why part of Our Little Art is also about preserving these small creations.
A drawing can leave the paper and become an object. It can become a gift. It can become part of the home. It can be kept for many years.
Not because it is a perfect work of art. But precisely because it was made by that child, at that moment in life.
Less instruction. More imagination.
I work with technology and I like technology.
But maybe precisely because I spend so much time creating digital things, I have learned to value even more what happens away from screens.
A blank sheet of paper does not tell a child what the next step is. There is no button to press. There is no animation waiting to begin.
There is only space.
And the question: “What can I create here?”
I want Our Little Art to help keep that question present in childhood.
Deep down, this project connects three generations of my own story: the creativity I received from my mother, my own pleasure in drawing and creating, and now my children growing up while they draw beside me.
Our Little Art was born from there.
