Click here to get your Art Spark resources.
I’ll guide you through four weeks of beautiful and fun art projects that you can enjoy with your children. At home or at school, these process art projects will give you an interesting framework of activities that you can weave into your weeks, so your children are engaged, creating and enjoying themselves all through art. See more details of Art Spark here.
Here’s a favourite idea from our kids painting archive, introducing children to watercolour painting and trying out a whole new – and rather exciting! – way of using it.
Watercolour painting with kids
>>> Join my Art Spark adventure here!
Watercolour painting can produce beautiful effects, and the technique we’re trying today uses a wet on wet technique for really exciting movement of the paint.
The basic wet on wet technique is just what it sounds – using wet waterpaints on a paper which is also wet.
We used a wide paint brush to sweep plenty of water over our paper and then added watercolour paint with a smaller brush (affiliate links). The children dabbed, made wide strokes and swirled the watercolour paints and watched the magic happen.
‘Look, mummy – the paint moves!’
As the wet watercolour paint hits the already wet surface it spreads and swirls and creates interactive pictures the children can add to but can’t completely control. Paint magic!
Have you tried this watercolour painting technique with your children?
Take it further :: more art explorations
If you like this idea you will love my Art Spark resources. I’ll show you many more simple art techniques you can explore with your children, liking your projects to famous artists to develop your children’s art knowledge and confidence. See Art Spark here.
Beautiful – personally I find it completely addictive!
Wow, looks cool! Will be adding this to our homeschool art class this year! Thanks for sharing.
Just beautiful, what is there to say! 🙂
Thank you for sharing on Kids Get Crafty!
Maggy
That is an incredible idea! I love this technique and we are definitely putting it on our to do list. Thanks so much for your brilliance as always!
I love watching the colors run, really beautiful!
Very nice! What brand of watercolour paints do you use? The colours look very vibrant.
Mia – they are just a supermarket own brand set (from Sainsbury’s) but you’re right they do have a really good range of colours.
Great fun ~ do you use heavy watercolor paper?
Hi Kat, no we didn’t – just some computer printer-type paper that we always have available for the kids to use for their projects.
The result and as as the process is so beautiful. And so much fun to watch…We will try this soon. 🙂
Very pretty.
I love water color painting, such a wonderful thing to do. I just got a wonderful new set, can’t wait to paint!
Very cool – I need to try more crafty things with my girls.
So fun! We’re huge fans, though, of professional-quality artist’s watercolor paper. Printer paper works, of course, but watercolor paper is really a wholly different experience.
I’m going to have to try that with my kids. Thanks for sharing!!
And they turned out so pretty. What a great idea.
gorgeous results and sounds like a great painting project! thanks so much for sharing on Craft Schooling sunday!
This is a MUST DO for me. How fun to see the colors seeping and swirling like that. My girls would love it.
Thanks for sharing your fun with us on the Sunday Showcase. We hope to see you link up what you’ve been up to this week.
Bernhttp://momto2poshlildivas.blogspot.com/search/label/Sunday%20Showcase
Love this! I found my way here by way of the Artful Parent Blog Tour, and have really been enjoying looking around! I plan on coming back often. 🙂
If you have a chance, you might enjoy stopping by our site and checking out our blog and new book. The Missing Alphabet is Book for parents that is meant to connect the dots between the innovation we all agree we need in this country and the creative thinking children can develop now…and that’s a goal that is
largely missing in schools today. We also offer a field guide of activities for parents and children to explore together in the home, at the museum, and outdoors. Hope to see you there!
I love this idea!! Thanks so much for sharing.