For our second round of painting, we decided to try the magnolia blossom tree, with our children.
We all sat in the living room with youtube hooked up on the TV, followed along and paused when needed.
My 9 year old daughter is able and willing to try new things, but gets very discouraged when she sees that hers isn't "as good" as someone else. So it was a bit of both worlds for her, we just had to keep encouraging her and assuring her she was doing fine.
My son just turned 5 last week. He cannot write, and he has trouble forming pictures even when showing him shapes, he would rather just scribble around. I have to say, I was extremely surprised with the outcome of his painting, AND that he was able to follow along and was eager to do so. Homework like tasks are a big challenge for him, he's unable to focus. He kept asking for the next step, and couldn't wait to show us his work, which he kept secret until we were done. We all tried to keep ours private, but as I said I had to keep checking my daughters to brighten her mood, so hers was general knowledge to all of us.
In the photo you will see out finished work. My husband's is the big one on the left, my son bottom middle, daughter top middle, and the last big one on the right is mine.
All in all we had a great time, and I have four beautiful matching pieces for my living room.
the only thing we didn't do with the video, was I prepainted each canvas a different color that we picked, and let them dry prior to starting the tutorial.
We all sat in the living room with youtube hooked up on the TV, followed along and paused when needed.
My 9 year old daughter is able and willing to try new things, but gets very discouraged when she sees that hers isn't "as good" as someone else. So it was a bit of both worlds for her, we just had to keep encouraging her and assuring her she was doing fine.
My son just turned 5 last week. He cannot write, and he has trouble forming pictures even when showing him shapes, he would rather just scribble around. I have to say, I was extremely surprised with the outcome of his painting, AND that he was able to follow along and was eager to do so. Homework like tasks are a big challenge for him, he's unable to focus. He kept asking for the next step, and couldn't wait to show us his work, which he kept secret until we were done. We all tried to keep ours private, but as I said I had to keep checking my daughters to brighten her mood, so hers was general knowledge to all of us.
In the photo you will see out finished work. My husband's is the big one on the left, my son bottom middle, daughter top middle, and the last big one on the right is mine.
All in all we had a great time, and I have four beautiful matching pieces for my living room.
the only thing we didn't do with the video, was I prepainted each canvas a different color that we picked, and let them dry prior to starting the tutorial.
We used a 1inch brush for the background, and #4 flat brush for the trees and blossoms, only cleaning it off after the brown paint, and continuing to usd from white to red back to brown, for blending. Colors used: background, brown, white, red.
Credits:
A big thankyou to Amy Pierce for this video tutorial which can be viewed here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KDvdH1TROk&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Additionally she has a blog and facebook:
www.herartfromtheattic.blogspot.com
A big thankyou to Amy Pierce for this video tutorial which can be viewed here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KDvdH1TROk&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Additionally she has a blog and facebook:
www.herartfromtheattic.blogspot.com
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