How Great Thou Art

This painting was created by a good friend's daughters.  I have known these girls for years and also taught them in my art camps earlier in the summer.  It was an absolute blast to work with them one on one.  And their result was AMAZING!   See what we did step by step below!

 Little "M" is going into 2nd grade and I have known her since she was a pre-ker.   This little girl is full of life!  Super fun to paint with!   She had an enormous painting here to create a background for.  I had her use sponges for most of it, which allowed for the marbled look that was achieved.  I would pour on the paint, and she would blob..and blob. and blob!

 First colors in!

 Now we added some of moms favorite colors, and more interest with these yellows and browns.

 "M" was great with moving those blotches up and filling this massive canvas!

 Finally, she overlapped the dark brown to complete the backdrop!

And the artist is finished!  It's so big I couldn't even fit it all in the picture!

Then, "M" stayed and played with my son.   Zhu's Zhu's...not sure if he would approve of me sharing these, but how could I not? Too cute!

Next up was big sister "K", coming in to add poppies.   We were basing this painting of a modern art painting that mom found on-line.   I had penciled in the poppies and stems so she knew where to paint.  So much of a good painting is use of space on a canvas.    Here "K" is adding the darker background stems with a very steady hand!

 Then we were off to the fun stuff!  The poppies!   I taught "K" how to use a mix of reds and oranges for the poppies and then she filled in, playing with her color options.

You can see our inspiration image below.   I helped with painting an outline for her....and we used black for more drama with the flowers as well.

 So Beautiful!

Now "K" put in her lighter stems.  I love her face below!  So involved!

Now her part was complete!  EXCELLENT job "K"!  This is stunning! 

 Here are the artists posing with the finished work!

I love these girls!

 Now their work was done!   Mom wanted this picture in the kitchen and chose out the hymn
 "How Great Thou Art" to be painted on the piece before she framed it. So the final product is below. I love it and think they will too!