Layered paint project

I love seeing something on a design show, yep I love to watch HGTV, and then morphing it into something I can do with the boys.  A few weeks ago I was watching the High Low Project (I can't find the exact episode... sorry!), and Sabrina Soto took an expensive piece of art and recreated it herself.  Well I took the Sabrina Soto project and recreated it with the boys.

The first step of the project is to paint light colors onto your canvas, or in our case your paper.  We decided to use yellow, peach, white and blue.  I gave each of the boys a plate with these colors on it so they could mix and mash as much as they want.  The middle picture is Blake's painting and the last one is mine.

 


Next you need to let that dry.  I decided to give it a day, actually two since the next day we were busy.

The next step you need to paint over the whole painting with a dark color the will cover the color you already painted.  Therefore the lighter you do your first layer the lighter you can do your second.  We decided to do either black or mix in a bit of white and do charcoal.

Right after you cover the whole thing you need to start removing the paint.  I had paint scrapers for the boys to use.  Sabrina Soto used a knotched trowel.  You could use anything that would take the paint right off the paper: cut knotched into heavy cardboard, use silverware handles, use your imagination.

The boys had a blast doing this project.  It turned out to be more of a process project than a product project, but that didn't stop me from framing their work.