With a rainy afternoon stopping us from going out and playing in the garden, it seemed a good moment to get the craft box out and do some painting instead.
Jessica chose three colours – red, green and blue and a chunky brush and sponge.
It is interesting to see how she changes in her approach to painting as she gets bigger. She now considers carefully which colour she wants and makes a definite decision about where exactly on the paper the next brush stroke or sponge mark is going to go. She experiments more with making big brush strokes, or just dabbing the paint on with the edge of the brush. It is lovely to watch her concentrate and take so much pleasure in creating her pictures. She also is very sure about what exactly she is painting now.
This is Jessica’s painting of her sister Sophie:
Sophie also got to have a little go with the paints this time. Mummy painted her hand and helped her do some hand prints on some card. After a couple of hand prints though Sophie looked like she was going to be more interested in trying to put her hands in her mouth. I quickly cleaned her up and let her go back to playing with toys whilst watching her sister paint.
Lovely paintings, paint usually ends up in mouths here too!! #minicreations
Thank you – yes, my eldest was trying to paint her face after she’d had enough of painting on the paper! 🙂
Aww so lovely and lovely to hear how the painting develops as she grows. Both paintings look lovely 🙂 xx #minicreations
Thank you – love watching how her art skills are developing 🙂
Grace says – Fab job lil’ dudettes. I love your paintings and it looks like you had super fun 🙂 Thanks for linking to #minicreations
Thank you – Jessica and Sophie both had lots of fun doing them! Lovely to join in with #minicreations again 🙂