People tell me my three year old stands out from the crowd. She is teeny tiny, but loud, confident and bubbling over with infectious energy. She is in fact the complete opposite of me.
I try to spend one on one time when I can with all my children, but S is the most challenging, mainly because she isn’t actually interested in anything. Z has moved from one obsession to the next, it started with trains, then cars and now its LEGO, LEGO and more LEGO, but little S just isn’t bothered. She does however love to draw.
One quiet afternoon we looked through the ‘Art book for Children’, the first picture to catch her eye was a huge mass of swirling colour with a man throwing paint at a canvas on the floor. I watched her beautiful brown eyes light up and knew thats what we had to do.
We discussed whether she wanted to make a happy or sad painting, she said sad, so then we discussed what colours to use. She wanted black (!) and blue and green.
She flicked and swirled and this was the result.
What do you think? and can you guess who the famous artist we saw in the book is?
Huge thanks to Maggy for helping me find a way to relate to my cheeky little girl and inspiring us to Get Arty.
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Love her apron and cheeky lil smile. Great piece of art 🙂
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Thank you. x
Oh my. This post made me all goosebumpy Emma – wow! I love a) that you found something you can do together and b) the process you went through. Great to discuss what colours make you feel sad or happy.
I do hope you will join in again and maybe this can be your special “thing” with S?!
Maggy
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Aww thank you Maggy. It really is a great idea. x
lovely painting! im very arty, my kids are not so interested but i love what your daughter has done! reminds me of a Jackson Pollock painting 🙂
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That looks like huge amounts of fun (and mess!) but well worth the effort. You have a future Banksy on your hands, I reckon…
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Her face is a picture! She looks like she had so much fun and the outcome is awesome!
Thanks for sharing on Family Frolics.
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Brilliant! You are very brave letting her do that inside though! Painting is an outside activity in our house usually 😀 Jackson Pollack perhap? 🙂
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I love that painting, S is a smart girl. She could get up to loads of mischief with J !
I hope your white cupboards didn’t suffer too much!
x
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I’m guessing Jackson Pollock?
The painting turned out great – and so glad you found a bonding activity to do together!
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How fun!! I love that activity. Thank you for sharing at Sharing Saturday! I hope you have a fabulous weekend!
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