Flower Field

"B" and "B" had painted a sunflower for mom this summer and then came back to make a painting for the Grandparents!   They love gardening, so mom listed some of their favorite flowers and sent a picture of their barn as well.   Using that for inspiration, we created a lovely gift!  Such a happy image!

Little "B" was first!   He painted in the sky complete with sponged in clouds.

Then, with me holding the painting up, I had him paint vertical strokes to blend in the grasses.

Sides too!

"B's" final step was to dot in the trees by the barn.  I gave him guidelines with my paint, and then he filled in!

AWESOME!

Next up was big sister "B"!   She started out with adding stems and circle stamping in flower middles.

Then she worked on the barn.  I taped again to help maintain nice lines.

While the barn was drying, "B" worked on red bee balms.  Fun!

Then, after the middles dried, she painted in the black eyed susans.

 And finally, the purple cone flowers!

 OH!  LOVELY!  I had a hard time choosing out which one was my favorite!

The Magical Horse

6 year old "E" is heading into 1st grade.   She loves horses so I helped her along with this magical beauty!  What a careful painter she was!   Such a beautiful result!

After sketching in the horse, I used painters tape to mark it off so "E" could put in a background and paint the horse in one session.   Here "E" is using careful horizontal brush strokes to paint in a colorful sky to start.

 Now she is finishing up the greens...boy that painter's tape comes in handy!  It was fun to peel it back to reveal the horse sketch she would be painting next!

"E" chose purple for the mane.  We talked about the direction for the lines for painting in a mane blowing in the wind.   Perfectly done!   When it came to the tail, "E" wanted to add more color to the horse, so we continued working with long brush strokes, but added more color.   Then taking blacks and browns, she used a detail brush to put in the face and hooves.

Her final step was to add colorful details on the horse's body and and blend them with white.  This was the trickiest part, but the results paid off!

How fun to hang this up in your room "E"!   Thanks for a fun afternoon!   I love your painting!

Flowers and Rainbows!

For 5 year old "E", a rainbow, flowers, and girly colors were the goal for a painting for her room!  What a bright and colorful addition to her decor!

"E" met me at Tribeca with her Grandma and we got started.   We only had a day to work with, so I had taped off the painting so she could get more than one step done at once.   She did a great job working with all that painter tape!  In went the sky and the grass, then she helped me pull off the rainbow tape and started working on the rainbow- no need to wait for paint to dry this way!

Rainbow in!   Next we pulled off all the flower tape so she could see what to do next.   In went our stems and grass, and then I would outline the flowers in her choice of colors and she would fill in!

 Great job with lines "E"!

 She used stampers for the flower middles and then we waited for some dry time before our next step!  Proud painter!

After lunch "E" traced her flowers with a sharpie.  This would make them pop off the painting, and come to the fore ground of the painting as well.

She did the middle, but the tracing proved a little difficult, so we did take out the middle sharpie with yellow paint :)

 Now her flowers popped and "E" was finished!   Enjoy your painting "E"!   It was so fun to work with you!