We have a large wall in Harper's playroom that needs something on it, and who better to make it then Harper herself. She loves to paint, so we thought, what better way to make a painting then to make it BIG. I had started making a collage on this canvas years back and it had just been sitting in our garage waiting for some inspiration.
We started off by giving her tempra cakes, a brush and some water.
Standing on the canvas was a hit.
She really liked taking the brush from the tempras and putting it in the water to make different colors and then spreading it onto the canvas. This was nice because it made a lot of different values.
I put some regular tempra (primary colors) into these little squeeze bottles for her because she started getting tired of the brush. They were small so it was easy for her to squeeze the paint onto the canvas.
It's starting to come together!
Notice her face of concentration. Whenever she paints or draws she gets this concentrated face and it's hard to get her to crack a smile!
I love seeing her little hands in the paint!
Back to the brush
The concentration face again
And finally a smile!
When she was done she stood up, signed all done and just walked off to play under a tree. Here's the finished product. I can't wait to hang it up in the playroom. I love how most of her work is in the lower right hand corner and it's surprisingly balanced by her footprints walking off the top.
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