Apr 13, 2020 | Art, Creative Activities
Paint a dream image and write a poem to go with it. Try to paint a dreamy picture with water colours or acrylics. Look at this picture or Monet’s work for ideas. Use lots of water allowing the paint to move together to create multi coloured effects. The sky can merge...
Apr 12, 2020 | Art, Creative Activities
Support the NHS with a rainbow image with words and cartoon characters. Say thank you to doctors, nurses and all other NHS workers by painting a rainbow. It can include any colours in any order but if you want to be accurate it’s red (on the outside), orange, yellow,...
Apr 11, 2020 | Art, Creative Activities
Vincent was an amazing artist who was a brilliant and troubled man. He painted in different styles throughout his short life but a famous technique he used was to paint landscapes using small stokes of colour – lots of them all crowded together in vertical,...
Jan 16, 2020 | Art, Creative Activities
Use water colour paper and coat it with a thin layer of water. Using the side of a thick brush paint horizontal stripes from one side of the paper to the other to create an expressive style. Overlap the stripes slightly. See how the colours run to create unplanned but...
Jan 16, 2020 | Art, Creative Activities
All children and adults can paint successfully in an Impressionist style. Use water colours with a little white acrylic. Play Debussy or Eric Satie and talk about the power of nature, wind through the trees, dappled sunlight and birdsong. Use lots of water – in...
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