Step 1: Have your child make a line drawing.
Step 2: Have your child fill it their drawing with tempera paints.
Step 3: Have them recreate their line drawing with a marking pen
Easy as that!
When Firecracker gets into a drawing mood, she can produce some pretty detailed pencil drawings, which are cute and wonderful in their own way...but it's nice to spice them up once in a while. After Firecracker finished her background for the fall tree painting, there was plenty of paint left. She'd been such a good sport at following the directions for the techniques I was trying to teach her, I told her she could make some more paintings and keep going until she ran out of paint.
Of course she loved getting to draw with a "grown-up" marker. I really like how it's such a typical "person" drawing for her, but the bright colors really bring it to life. She scratched some grass in the wet paint with a noodle, but decided it needed some help from the pen too.The border around the side is from using painters tape to attach it to the table (recommended by Gail at That Artist Woman) and it gives it a nice finished look.
What a wonderful art technique. I love the sun and the moon in her painting. Is that Sweet Pea beside her?
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