Imagined Flower Challenge: My Approach

10 Aug

On 19th May this year, I jumped into The Imagined Flower Challenge, hosted by @estee.zales.

Seven days of mixing flowers with all sorts of unexpected prompts (some that I didn’t think I was capable of illustrating at first, but I was open to the challenge). It was actually my first time joining an Instagram art challenge, and I thought it would be a fun way to shake things up and also feed into the mentorship programme I’m currently doing with Picture Hooks.

Lately, I’ve been carving out more space for writing and figuring out how my words and pictures can work together. So instead of just combining “flower + prompt,” I decided to push it a bit further. Each day, I turned the prompt into a tiny children’s book moment, complete with named characters, little worlds, and bite-sized narratives that I’d post alongside the illustration that evening.

Working at that pace meant I didn’t have time to overthink. Weirdly, the pressure made the writing lighter and funnier, and I found myself enjoying coming up with snappy, slightly comical dialogue for the characters. It was a playful way to practice, and I ended up with a handful of story seeds I’m really excited about.

I thought I would share my outcomes here as a little memory of my first Instagram challenge ❀