Here’s a favourite process art idea: reverse printing 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…?’
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.
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?
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.
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Hi Cathy,I love it! the result is simply magnificent.
Oh thanks for following the link Maria – thanks for stopping by 🙂
This is such a great idea! The colors you choose made a beautiful painting.
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.
Jude, can’t wait to see yours – I know they’ll be great 🙂
looks great, thanks so much for sharing on Craft Schooling Sunday!
Always fun to join in sara 🙂
I love this! So pretty. They would look so nice side by side framed. Thanks again for coming to art4littlehands.com
Fabulous coloration and I love the Bollywood colours
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.
I LOVE THIS! What kind of paints and papers did you use? Watercolour paper?
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.