{"id":172,"date":"2010-07-06T01:28:41","date_gmt":"2010-07-06T05:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artuitive.net\/blog\/?p=172"},"modified":"2013-08-01T08:57:54","modified_gmt":"2013-08-01T15:57:54","slug":"collaging-with-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artuitive.net\/blog\/2010\/07\/06\/collaging-with-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Collaging with Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Red, Blue and Yellow inks again produced lots of color<\/p><\/div>\n

Collaging with Kids, again – very fun.\u00a0 I managed to get a couple of videos in here for you along with some photos of the finished collages.<\/p>\n

My friend Jody is genuinely generous and full of love.\u00a0 One example of this is what she\u2019s doing right now \u2013 enjoying her 6-year old grandson, Zander.\u00a0 He lives in California.\u00a0 We live in South Carolina.\u00a0 She got on a plane a couple of weeks ago and went to California to pick him up.\u00a0 This kind of trip takes an entire day each way.\u00a0 In a couple of more weeks she will get on a plane with him and take him home.\u00a0 Then she will cry for about half the trip home and the rest of the trip she will be thinking of other generosities we, as her friends, will benefit from. If you don\u2019t have a friend like this, drop everything and go seek one out.\u00a0 The best way I know to become loving and generous is to be in the presence of someone who treats you as if you already are.<\/p>\n

Yesterday Jody and Zander and I played at collaging.\u00a0 I did things a little different this time.\u00a0 We collaged the paper first, and then we dripped the diluted acrylic ink.\u00a0 The reason for this change of order is that I noticed people have trouble covering up a painted paper with washi or other paper.\u00a0 They think they are destroying the Mona Lisa, rather than just creating a surface. \u00a0For some people, this is the first time they\u2019ve put any paint onto paper in many years and are so excited to see how interesting it looks.<\/p>\n

What we did to get ready was to watch a DVD called \u201cReturn to the Ice Planet.\u201d\u00a0 It\u2019s about 10 minutes long and was written and created by my two grandsons.\u00a0 It\u2019s a spoof on \u201cStar Wars\u201d and starts out as Episode 0.\u00a0 It was shot in their backyard, family room and the hills of Woodland Hills CA. It\u2019s a fine example of brilliant kid humor and\u00a0creativity. Zander loved it.<\/p>\n

Then we got down to painting!<\/p>\n

Step 1:\u00a0 We mixed a little glue and water onto a cardboard and then painted the glue mixture onto our paper where we planned to put the washi paper.\u00a0 Then we put down the washi paper and painted a very light coating of glue and water over it.\u00a0 We kept doing this until we had about 10 or 15 pieces of washi paper all connected to each other in some way \u2013 a corner or a side.<\/p>\n

Step 2:\u00a0 We sprayed the entire paper with water until it was covered, but mostly around the non-collaged areas.<\/p>\n

Step 3:\u00a0 With small squirt bottles of red, blue and yellow diluted acrylic ink, we dripped a little ink onto the paper and watched it run into the crevices of the washi paper and run around the watercolor paper.\u00a0 The more you squirt with water next to the ink you dropped, the more it moves.\u00a0 Usually at this point, we would let it dry for a few hours or overnight.\u00a0 But since there was nothing on there that would blow off, I used a hairdryer, mainly blowing onto the back of the painting.\u00a0 If you really want some interesting ink movement, let your piece dry naturally.\u00a0 Once the hair dryer hits it, the ink stops moving.<\/p>\n

Step 4:\u00a0 Next we put three circular shapes onto our paintings.\u00a0 We used a metal ring, jar lids, embroidery hoops and a yogurt container. Then we squirted more ink around the edges.\u00a0 These we let dry overnight to be ironed in the morning.<\/p>\n

We got in the mood this morning by watching the first episode of \u201cPicasso\u201d \u2013 a video that shows him using a marking pen on paper to create an image of him as the artist, painting a nude model.\u00a0 What\u2019s so amazing about all of the episodes on this video is how much black he uses.\u00a0 He thinks in negative space, evidenced by the way he started the drawings.<\/p>\n

Step 5:\u00a0 The final steps can be a variety of things:\u00a0 Ink an image over the interesting background (line on shape), paint around the shapes with watercolor pens and then squirt to make the paint run some more, or add more collage paper and then drip ink or draw.<\/p>\n

Zander drew animals and faces and around some square shapes with watercolor pens, squirted a few and declared himself finished.<\/p>\n

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Zander age 6, has given himself the stage name of Alexander Best<\/p><\/div>\n

Jody put a few little dabs of watercolor onto her piece using the watercolor pens, squirted it a bit and decided she liked it the way it was.\u00a0 She did spend a lot of her painting time just enjoying Zander laughing and playing around with his piece.<\/p>\n

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Jody’s Black Hole, Chess piece or Rocket – or whatever your think it might be for you!<\/p><\/div>\n

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This time we reversed things a little by collaging first and then dripping paint on the wet paper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,3],"tags":[90,91,4,17,16,15,13,6],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to","category-paintings-prints-collages","tag-acrylic","tag-collage","tag-experimental-painting","tag-how-to-2","tag-kid-art","tag-mixed-media","tag-painting","tag-watercolor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artuitive.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artuitive.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artuitive.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artuitive.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artuitive.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/www.artuitive.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1391,"href":"https:\/\/www.artuitive.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions\/1391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artuitive.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artuitive.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artuitive.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}