Boredom Busters: Sharks!

It’s handy to have paper and pencils or crayons readily available. These drawings began while I was on the phone and the children were bored. In the end they had so much fun with them that they carried the shark theme into their next Painting Sunday.

Kelly’s Shark in Colored Pencils (~3/10, 8 years)

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Collage Sunday II

Well, I wasn’t entirely correct. In my Anti-Painting Sundays post, I predicted that Kelly and Timmy would go green for their next collages, using the vertical strips to illustrate grass instead of water. While I was right about the green, they opted for forests instead, and I love the results!

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Anti-Painting Sundays

What do you do on a “Painting Sunday” when you run out of watercolor paper?

Well, something else, of course. And it had better be fun!

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Painting Sundays III

This installment is long overdue, coming two months after the post for Part 2.

As mentioned before, our children do the preliminary sketches themselves. Matt then coaches them through their paintings, providing advice on friskets, brush techniques, washes and other paint applications.

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Painting Sundays (Part 2)

As mentioned in Part 1, these paintings are the result of a new tradition in our house: Painting Sundays. Our children do the majority of the sketches themselves, and Matt coaches them on friskets, brush techniques, washes and other paint applications.

Cow Fish by Timmy (5 years)

Toucanette by Timmy (5 years)

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