Painting

Painting with your child is lots of fun, but sometimes it's nice to add a bit of variety. Here are some ideas. * finger painting - just enjoying the paint on their fingers and splodging away * cut out shapes from cereal packets and paint them (hearts, christmas trees etc) * draw a picture with white wax crayon, when they paint over with thin poster paints the picture appears * put a lot of paint on the paper (or on a glass chopping board), then draw in it with a stick / finger * paint a house or a tree and give them coloured tissue paper in rolled up balls and see where they stick it And here are some ...  Read the complete review

Where my mum works they were getting rid of a plain white ceramic jardinere with a roses design, it would have been pretty in any other colour. They asked my mum if she wanted it so she took it thinking something good could be done to it by moi! She was right. The truth is what i ended up with i never set out to get. She wanted something green and after it had been sitting around for ages being ignored she decided to do something with it so she put a pale green undercoat on it. But she didn't know what else she could do so i offered to help (Even though the laziness in me was yelling "don't do it!"). Using some watercolours i painted it a ...  Read the complete review

About three years ago I decided to sign up for an evening class in drawing. I was one of those people who was close to useless at “art” at school, but over the years, I had met people who enjoyed painting. Even my esteemed brother in law had taken up painting later in life and had exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. And now I too had more time on my hands, and so I decided to have a go. The class was called “Drawing and Painting for All”, so that seemed a good place to start. I turned up on the first evening not knowing what to expect. I should have looked a little more closely at the prospectus and noticed that the ...  Read the complete review