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Ever since I first heard about watercolour sprays, I’ve been wanting to try them out. The ones you can buy ready-made are I discovered quite expensive, so I decided to create my own using the new powdered water-colour inks I’ve recently treated myself to. That way I can control the dilution I want, mix the colours, and be much more extravagant with them as they are so economical to use. So, I mixed up my inks, and bought some travel sized spray bottles to put them in. There are quite a lot of posts around the internet at the moment for using spray paints with kids, more particularly using trigger sprays outdoors. This looks like great fun, but with the small sprays we were using you can use them with kids quite safely indoors, as long as you take reasonable precautions! This activity was quite a hit with my boys – they couldn’t wait to get stuck in, and even now, every time my 4 year old sees me using them, he wants to join in too. He sometimes struggled with the sprays since they’re not the trigger kind, but he managed most of the time, and I was able to give him help when needed. Again, we used heavy watercolour paper for this, which absorbs the ink so much better, and had lots of paper towels and newspaper to hand, because we were often swimming with pools of ink. As the pools developed, we tipped the paper so that the colour ran, creating new effects. We also used a spray of plain water, just to encourage the ink to run or bleed into the next colour, or even just to make a lovely speckled pattern (wait for the paper to dry a little so that it is no longer shiny, but still damp if you want to retain this ‘rainfall’ effect). If you have the patience for it, you can get beautiful subtle layered effects by letting one colour of spray dry before adding the next. A more mottled effect is created if you continue spraying so that some of the tiny droplets merge to create bigger droplets. We also experimented with masks, stencils and resists to create patterns. Drawing with a wax candle (or wax crayon if you want colour) was effective, as was spraying through paper doilies and lace. We also went outside to fetch leaves from the garden to mask the paper. The ghostly effect achieved is rather like that you find with sunprints, only you don’t have to wait for the sun (which has been in rather short supply here this summer). Alternatively you can create your own stencils and masks from household objects, or paper cut outs. By the time we’d finished we had a whole stack of beautifully decorated fragments of paper. So, what to do with it all? I discovered that by tearing the thick paper, you could get a lovely decorative white edge (remember you have to tear the strip you are removing towards you, if you want to retain a white edge). Punching a hole at one end, and threading a ribbon through it, created beautiful gift tags with a real luxury feel. You could also use strips to create book marks in the same way, mount them onto plain card to create a greetings card, or even as use fragments as a background for beautiful unique, one-of-a-kind business cards. The surface is ideal for writing on, and if I was able to do calligraphy or had beautiful handwriting I would personally like to use them that way. But I don’t, so maybe I’ll experiment with stamping them instead! Whatever you use them for, the results are much too beautiful to throw away!
Art isn’t just about paper and paints, in this day and age we mustn’t neglect that newest of art forms – digital art. It’ll be interesting to see whether the arrival of the computer in the late 20th century turns out to have a similar effect as that of the arrival of photography on artists in the 19th century. Then, arguably, it helped to kick-start the arrival of abstract art – after all, who could compete with a camera when it came to representation. Artists had to paint something else, something that a camera, concerned only with surface reality, could not achieve – inner truths, emotions, etc. Even in representational art it encouraged new ways of seeing, new ways of composing a picture. There can be a somewhat snobbish attitude to digital art, an attitude that takes it less seriously, and regards it as somehow less skilful, than ‘real’ art. Certainly it throws up new challenges, new potential, new issues to explore – for example where does the role of the artist and that of the computer start and finish? There are also issues of long-term preservation, and of copyright, and then there are the artists who are exploring and blurring the boundaries between the more traditional techniques of fine art, and those of digital art…. Encouraging children to try out and experiment with this newest of art forms can expand their creative horizons, and help develop their computer skills. The internet is a vast place, continuously growing at a rapid pace, and there is lots out there to help children develop their digital creativity. So I have put together a select list of some of the best that I’ve come across so far: Digital Colouring There is no shortage of sites that allow you to colour in an image digitally, and because I’m sure you’ll have come across them, I’m not going to list any here. They are great for young kids, as they get a pleasing result very easily, and can then be printed off. They may need a little help to get the hang of what to do, but it’s great hand-eye co-ordination practice, and gets them familiar with using a computer mouse. However, in addition to the onscreen colouring, there are also some sites which allow you to create your own ‘customised’ colouring sheets, by combining a variety of motifs and backgrounds as you see fit: http://www.crayola.com includes this as one of the elements on its site, which also includes lots of ideas for art and craft activities. http://www.haringkids.com – If you like Keith Haring’s artwork, his website also has a section where you can create and digitally colour your own colouring sheet in the style of his artwork. This one is great for young and old alike. Digital Drawing & Painting Beyond digital colouring, the next stage is digital drawing and painting, where you create a composition of your own. It can be tricky to control the mouse for this kind of drawing (it’s much easier if you use a digital drawing tablet) but it’s fine for playing about with abstract scribbles or simple drawings. However some sites will also allow you to create compositions using drag and drop and a range of motifs that you can combine or customise at will. http://www.tate.org.uk/kidsOne of the most entertaining elements of this site is an interactive facility to create your own street art on an empty brick wall – great fun for budding Banksys. It also includes a number of other artistic games, with added art history education along the way, and the ability to create your own gallery choosing favourite works from the Tate collection, or allowing children to upload their own work to share with the world. http://www.artisancam.org.uk This site is well worth a visit – it’s not intended just for kids, but it includes a whole range of art and craft activities. There are games to create your own pop art and cartoon art, a children’s book to create, and lots of other entertaining online creative activities. http://www.kerpoof.com– owned and operated by Disney, this site has a number of online drawing tools, including the ability to create your own animated movie, and create your own story book which you can print out. In addition to these there are quite a few online drawing applications, of varying characteristics and levels of sosphistication: http://www.zefrank.com/scribbler/ Create a simple scribble, and then sit back and watch it ‘develop’ further – it’s quite entertaining to see what’s created from your original scribble. http://artpad.art.com I liked this one, because it’s very simple, and allows you to splash paint around with a bucket as well as using a brush. At the end you can ‘frame’ it and post it to the online gallery to share with the world. http://www.canvastic.net Another simple online drawing tool. http://bomomo.com – Digital drawing with a difference. Not particularly aimed at kids, you can have lots of fun creating semi-random compositions with a variety of digital tools. You can also save the finished result onto your computer. For more ideas using digital art techniques, check out the following posts:
This project offers an alternative three-dimensional way to display children’s artwork. It’s a simple concept with multiple potential variations so you can make it as basic or as complicated as you like. I love it’s kinetic qualities, but unfortunately this made it astonishingly difficult to photograph properly, so all I can say is that the photos don’t really do it justice. You can make them as big or as small as you like depending on the space available. I think a few really long ones would look fabulous suspended down a stairwell. However we don’t have the house for this, so a corner of my kitchen had to do! Before you start, measure the height of the space where you intend to hang your mobile so you know how many frames you need. To make this, all you need is some foam board for the frames, coloured card for the mounts, and I used a clear nylon beading thread to join and suspend the frames. Of course you don’t have to use foam board for the frames. I chose it because it was light and fairly easy to cut as long as you have a very sharp knife and a cutting board. (Be warned, foam board is very unforgiving of blunt knives!) I used white, which is the most readily available colour, but it is also available in black which I think would look rather good too. You could of course use thick card instead, and even create some ‘gilded’ frames. You can cut the frames any size you like – (a variety of sizes can look good, used in mixed formats – i.e portrait and landscape), just make sure you leave the frame wide enough to give a reasonable level of rigidity. The sizes will of course be at least in part dictated by the size of the artwork you want to frame. I had quite a lot of work created on A4 and smaller sized paper which I sorted out, paired up and stuck back to back on pieces of stiff coloured card, leaving a small border around. The window of the frame was cut to be slightly larger than the mounted artwork so that it could be suspended freely within it. Once you have cut your frames, you can either leave them plain or paint or decorate them in any way you choose. I chose to leave mine plain and minimal so as to place all the focus on the artwork itself. To assemble the mobile, start by punching a single hole at the centre top of each mounted artwork, and threading a length of the nylon through it. I then used a needle threaded with an end of the nylon to take the thread through the top inside edge of the frame, and secured it with a knot. Having done this for all the frames, I then laid them all out on the floor in the order I wanted them, and again used a needle threaded with the nylon, to join the individual frames together with equal spaces between. Bear in mind where it is going to be placed so that you don’t create it too long. Your mobile will then be ready to hang, so stand back and admire!
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Sing along with the Super Simple Puppets to this sweet nursery rhyme, Skidamarink A Dink A Dink! It’s the perfect way to say, “I love you!” 🎶 Skidamarink a dink a dink. Skidamarink a doo. I love you. 🎶
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