We try to have an art class every Friday as what I indicated in our October Calendar. I bought new sets of paint last week, they’re 80% organic, non-toxic, water washable and doesn’t have the strong smell like that of Crayola. So my son had a renew interest in painting and he’s been doing it randomly not just during Friday.
This idea was from a picture I saw in my Facebook newsfeed and I wanted to try it with Mavi, teaching him the colour progression… from light to dark or the other way around.
He picked the primary colours and the green. We added 3 drops of white paint each time we lighten the colours. Son totally enjoyed this activity! He especially loves the part wherein we changes the shade of the colour and he gets excited to see the effect.
So here’s Mavi’s work and mine. I didn’t get to finish my work as I ended up assisting him in his colour mixtures.
As an extra work, he ended up mixing the primary colours…. to produce secondary colours so he can paint a rainbow. A few years ago we had colour mixing activities, you can pay it a visit as it became really popular and was featured in other blogs as well.
I’m so happy of his renewed interest! And with the new paints, I can allow him to do lots of art works without worrying of the strong paint smell :D
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