The girls are always asking to paint, paint, paint. This was a weekday night, and I took out the brushes and stuff.
Suddenly inspired, I doodled pictures for them to paint, copying from a colouring book they had. Figured it might be more interesting than yet another rainbow. Or tree and house scene.
Surprised myself! Haha.
The elder girl requested a castle, no surprises there.
She was very pleased with her castle, and started to very earnestly try to make it ALL PINK.
Before I knew it, someone had a green palm. Then when I next looked, the entire back of her hand (and parts of arm!) where similarly hulked. *fainted*
“Why is your WHOLE HAND green, B?” I asked in horror.
“Cos this is finger painting.” She replied, not missing a beat. O.O
Suffice to say, it took a lot of washing up. Ah well, have to keep telling myself to chill and have fun.
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| The end result, somewhat. |
I couldn’t resist intervening to make my balloon doodle less of a totally green swamp thing. So our friend did the green ‘fields’, and I coloured the hot air balloon. I really enjoyed it! Painting is therapeutic!
K started having fun decorating her castle with a giant flower, drawing in a sun… but somewhat lost steam when it came to the turrets. No stress, just paint what you like. Free play here…
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| Our masterpieces. |
The next day, I was pleasantly surprised to see it up on the kids’ room wall! My helper had deemed it pretty enough to put up! Haha. Pleased!
Hi, i’ve just started to learn how to paint on wood.I appleid gesso on a plywood but when i start sketching on it, the pencil’s lead scratched the gesso and took off some of it.It’s the same when i tried to erase some sketches with the eraser, the pencil line will still be there.Instead, it’s the gesso being taken off.I waited for the gesso to dry before i sketch on it.How do i do it correctly?
Hi Dorita, am not sure about this… have not really used gesso on plywood before, nor painted on wood.