Acrylics with Kids

I'll share a secret with yous: I've always wished I was a painter. I envy artists who have their own painting studio where they can hibernate abroad and mind to music and paint whatever they want. I recollect it's the introvert in me who loves this idea of confinement, and non having to delight the masses. I know in my mind I have romanticized the artist'southward life completely, but information technology would still remain my dream even if the reality were less glamourous.

One such artist who forever inspires me these days is San Francisco based painter and textile designer Kindah Khalidy. I can stare at her work on Instagram for ages. She has this playful style and uses colors so vividly with her organic shapes and loose strokes that everything e'er looks just and so happy. Her piece of work reminds me of the paintings that my 4-year olds make in art class, working from their heart without whatsoever inhibitions.

Kindah's work was the perfect place to get-go when I introduced my students to acrylic paints for the first time.

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Supplies:

~ Fabric pieces (mine are from an one-time sheet)

~ Gesso or white tempera pigment

~ Acrylic paints (I used Liquitex Basics but any cheap paints will practise – make sure to get white)

~ Large paper plate

~ Brushes

~ Damp sponge and glass of water

~ Embroidery hoops (I used 8″/20cm)

~ Hot gum gun

~ Yarn for pom-poms (optional)

Process:

~ Begin by tracing a circle on the fabric with a pencil (I used the outside role of the hoop). Pigment gesso inside the circumvolve. Wait for information technology to dry.

~ Side by side, clasp a dollop of each color on the white plate. Give each child their own palette.

~ Hang up a few samples of Kindah'southward work.

~ Let the kids explore, encouraging them to mix as many colors as they tin.

~ When their painting is dry, place into hoop and twist until tight. Cutting off backlog fabric and use a little hot glue to tuck it in.

Before the children began painting, we had a conversation about abstract art. I don't accept to have this conversation with the three, iv, and v-year olds because everything they do is basically abstruse. But at about the age of half-dozen, children brainstorm to larn how to draw representational objects. Things like hearts, flowers, peace signs, trees, dogs, and their name in bubble letters. Endless bubble letters. They are very proud that they can depict these things that accept meaning to them, then they depict them everywhere. Somewhen, they become stuck. I come across information technology happen, then by the time they are viii, they can't recollect of anything to describe during gratis fourth dimension. By historic period eight they realize that they need to move on from the peace signs and bubble letters, but they don't know how. So when I take an older group, in a higher place age six, I ever beginning each drawing and painting project off with a talk about abstruse art. I encourage them to recollect about shapes, line, stroke, color, and texture. Rather than "things". Information technology helps and so much to have an artist to study that they can emulate. Kindah's work is perfect for this projection because they tin meet how she works with color and shape without drawing annihilation immediately recognizable.

Each child had their own style, as is always the example. One kid finished in about 10 minutes. She was interested in filling up the infinite as speedily as possible. (This is always her footstep, by the mode.) Another child finished filling her space but so looked at Kindah's work and decided to go dorsum and add some polka dots. Then another child spent over an 60 minutes on her painting. She mixed equally many colors every bit she could, she explored overlapping the pigment on her sheet, she was in such a zone that she didn't fifty-fifty realize that the others had left the table. It was magical to picket. At the cease, she wanted to practice some other. She said that her grandma used acrylics and that she had always wanted to try and that now it was her FAVORITE! It's e'er incredible equally an educator to be able to expose a child to a fabric that speaks to them.

Can't you lot envision a whole wall covered in these colorful round paintings? They turned out so astonishing.

To see a different version of this project, encounter how Artistic Alive did this as a DIY.

I'd love to run across your interpretations of this projection so tag me at @artbarblog on Instagram or send me a photo if you do it!

xo, Bar

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