Painting Campbell River

What a great day! Painting with acrylics on paper and creating artworks to hang in the Campbell River Hospital.

The theme for this project was "My Favourite Places in Campbell River"

It was awesome fun but as it turns out the paper we used was too large for the preset frames they have for hanging them and so we will have to do this session again.  In any event, these paintings are too wonderful not to share.   

"Painting the Water Park"

Kaitlyn (Age 4)

22" x 30" Acrylic on Paper

"Raspberry"

Kaitlyn (Age 4)

22" x 30" Acrylic on Paper

"Big Clown"

Matteus (Age 3)

22"x 30" Acrylic on Paper

"Fishing on the Campbell River"

Preston (Age 6)

22" x 30" Acrylic on Paper

"Suspension Bridge"

Grace (Age 8)

22" x 30" Acrylic on Paper

Christmas Wrapping Paper with Fruit and Veggie Stamps

Here's a fun ways to jazz up your xmas gift wrapping.  Make your own wrapping paper and give it your personal touch.  You can get as elaborate as you like by carving designs into potatoes or make snowman images with round stamp shapes and add features with markers or dots of paint.  For Super Saturday art making at the gallery we kept it simple.  

Using a brush, we applied paint with to the cut fruit or veg and stamped a few times before reapplying the paint and stamping some more.

Some made patterns

Others did all over designs

And then there's four year old Caitlyn! An artist after my own heart.  

She always dives right in without fear.

 

Full Body Tracings

What could be more fun than your very own doppelgänger? 

I keep coming back to this project because it is such a rewarding experience.  Everyone enjoys a collective energy in making, and there is sheer delight with the outcome.  I could do this every day!   

This activity starts off identifying with the self in a physical way, copying the image you know as you, but quickly turns into a reflection of personality and character.

All you need is big paper, pencils, glue sticks and tissue paper.  Tissue paper comes in so many colours making every clothing option and hair colour possible.  Plus it adds a great texture to the work.

Simply lay down on the paper and pose how you like while someone traces around your body with a pencil - careful it can be a bit ticklish.  

Use a glue stick to apply glue to one area at a time. Cut or tear tissue paper and stick it down on top of the glue and move on to the next area. 

Don't worry about gluing inside the lines, any excess tissue will be cut away when the figure is cut out afterwards.

The floor is the best work space for this.

There were those who chose to creatively colour their person.

Some wonderful characters emerged!!