Guest Posted June 8, 2012 Share Posted June 8, 2012 Hi, has anyone done art work with nursery children following a painting related to water. Done a google search and not inspired. Also done Monet and water lilies before that worked well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cait Posted June 8, 2012 Share Posted June 8, 2012 Oh yes! We had HUGE fun with Hokusai and his Great Wave painting! We did some fabulous whole table paintings using lots of elbow pivot and shoulder movements to create some lovely waves, and then armed with the information about how to create those shapes, children created their own individual, brilliant paintings. They made a great gallery! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 9, 2012 Share Posted June 9, 2012 o0o0o thanks for posting this. My topic after half term is water and I was looking for ideas for my art sessions. Love the look of that Hokusai print. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cait Posted June 9, 2012 Share Posted June 9, 2012 There are lots of exciting things you can do with water! Have you tried putting torn up pieces of coloured art tissue onto wet paper and leaving it to dry? You peel the tissue paper off and the colour is left on the paper. Children think it's magic 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 9, 2012 Share Posted June 9, 2012 o0o0o I've not done that one, thanks for that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inge Posted June 9, 2012 Share Posted June 9, 2012 we once did some around Hockney and swimming pools.. could tie this in with Olympics too.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cait Posted June 9, 2012 Share Posted June 9, 2012 And there's splitting colours with water, when you draw a line on kitchen or blotting paper with a water based black felt tip, then put the edge of the paper in water and watch it soak up through the paper, through the line, splitting the black ink into its component colours. Very pretty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Froglet Posted June 10, 2012 Share Posted June 10, 2012 And there's splitting colours with water, when you draw a line on kitchen or blotting paper with a water based black felt tip, then put the edge of the paper in water and watch it soak up through the paper, through the line, splitting the black ink into its component colours. Very pretty. You could do lots of experimenting to see which colours split into which other colours (does that make sense?!) Also how different pens of the same colour respond. I did this in a (grown ups) watercolour class a couple of years ago. Then we used the results to create fab pictures - we drew a picture with the pens and then coloured them in with water. Some pens will leave a line while still spreading the colour around others will just blur the colour. I'm all excited now - might try that at school! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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