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Reverse print painting

12/04/2016 by Cathy James 12 Comments

Here’s a favourite process art idea: reverse printing painting.

 

reverse print painting

Reverse print painting

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We tried out some reverse print painting today. It was one of those fabulous ideas, which come from a child saying ‘I wonder what would happen if…?’

 

kids painting

 

We’d been messy about with some painting and B had already created a picture full of colour and interesting shapes, using plenty paint to cover the whole surface of her painting and thick paint brushes to swirl colours together and make patterns.

 

printing with paint

 

Then she wondered what would happen if she placed another piece of paper over the top of her design to take a print. And the result?

 

printing with paint

 

A beautiful print of her painting. She was interested to notice that the printing and pressing affected the original painting too – the squashing by her hands making the surface of the thick paint swoosh around and create some new patterns.

 

paint printing

 

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Comments

  1. Casa Maria's Creative Learning Zone says

    15/05/2011 at 4:10 pm

    Hi Cathy,I love it! the result is simply magnificent.

    Reply
    • Cathy @ NurtureStore says

      15/05/2011 at 4:25 pm

      Oh thanks for following the link Maria – thanks for stopping by 🙂

      Reply
  2. JDaniel4's Mom says

    15/05/2011 at 6:25 pm

    This is such a great idea! The colors you choose made a beautiful painting.

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  3. Jude says

    15/05/2011 at 9:39 pm

    Snap! We’ve been doing some reverse printing too – I shall reveal all in a future post/posts. It’s one of my favourite techniques and it always seems to give very satisfying results. Beautiful.

    Reply
    • Cathy @ NurtureStore says

      15/05/2011 at 9:47 pm

      Jude, can’t wait to see yours – I know they’ll be great 🙂

      Reply
  4. creativejewishmom/sara says

    17/05/2011 at 7:03 am

    looks great, thanks so much for sharing on Craft Schooling Sunday!

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    • Cathy @ NurtureStore says

      17/05/2011 at 10:11 am

      Always fun to join in sara 🙂

      Reply
  5. Laura@art4littlehands says

    23/06/2011 at 12:59 pm

    I love this! So pretty. They would look so nice side by side framed. Thanks again for coming to art4littlehands.com

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  6. TheBoyandMe says

    28/04/2012 at 3:05 pm

    Fabulous coloration and I love the Bollywood colours

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  7. Faigie says

    29/05/2013 at 1:52 am

    That’s the best kind of learning, when they learn by doing not being told what and how to do. I find that when I’ve given the kids painting activities that include mixing colors, the colors they formed on their own as opposed to being told “how to make pink” lasts with them a lot longer.

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  8. Melissa says

    16/08/2013 at 4:22 am

    I LOVE THIS! What kind of paints and papers did you use? Watercolour paper?

    Reply
    • Cathy James says

      22/08/2013 at 10:07 am

      Hi Melissa. We used ‘ordinary’ paper, just the type that you would use in a computer printer. We always have a big pile of it around for drawing on. And we used waterbased poster (tempera) paint. I think the fact that we used printer paper (which is slightly glossy) meant the paint didn’t dry or soak into the paper so quickly, which allowed us to take a good print.

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