Little Picasso's: One Painting in Two

Meet "E" and "M", a brother and sister team who were going to paint on two canvases to create a beautiful piece to hang in their parent's room. I love that their mom said, "I just want to wake up and see my kid's artwork in the mornings." What a perfect, happy way to start the day. She had found two small canvases to use for the project and we decided to paint them with one concept, carrying over from one canvas to another. I LOVE the final result! Subtle and beautiful!

"E" came over first and was super easy to talk to and very smiley! For some reason though, every time I clicked the camera I caught him in concentration mode. These pictures just don't do justice for his fun personality! I told him he looked like a serious artist in his pictures, to which he would give a little laugh!

We used multiple colors and shades for the background we were creating and I had him use both short horizontal and vertical strokes with a brush to begin the background.

Almost filled in...."E" looks like he's holding back that awesome smile!

We had a good base and nice, wet paint to work with....so now I gave him a credit card to use to add a rougher texture, like palette painting.

Very serious!

The effects were looking great!

Then darker shades....

Now some blending with a brush again...

There's that great smile! He is so sweet! After taking the second picture he kissed his hand and threw it out for a "waa-laa"! Cracks me up!

Great base for the painting "E"!

For session 2, I met older sister "M", who is equally as sweet and wonderful to work with. I had pencil sketched some branches for her to paint over so that is where we began!

Happy!

She was so concentrated and careful on her painting!

"E" looks very thoughtful here. He came along today to hang out and support the process. It was great to see him again!

Now we started adding in flowers. "M" had 3 different shades to use to fill in the

flower blossoms on the tree.

This was looking STUNNING already!

Great picture of "M" and the painting where we left it today! Awesome work so far!

Now it was time for "M"s 2nd and final session. We were going to add more fullness to the branches. I had added pencil sketches in again for her to paint so that's where we started!