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Let’s start with what you will need to make your collaborative transfer art:

• watercolor paint
• watercolor paint brushes of varied sizes
• watercolor paper
• plain white drawing paper
• transfer paper
• pencil
• fine black ink pen

Don’t forget CREATIVITY!

1. First, encourage your child to express themselves through a simple drawing with pencil on white drawing paper.

2. Once your child is done with their drawing, place the transfer paper with the darkest black ink side down on your watercolor paper.

3. Trace your child’s picture onto the watercolor paper. When doing this what will remain is the ink from the transfer paper where you applied pressure through tracing.

4. Now you can watercolor your child’s drawing. This allows you to create a piece that is a little bit a part of each of you. (For techniques and inspiration review the posts at the bottom of the page.)

5. Lastly, use your fine black ink pen to add detail and nice line work to your Kid’s Watercolor Art Transfer.

It is so important to take those moments in life, slow down, savor your loved ones and create the life you long for! Dovidenia. Xo

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Masking fluid is an awesome art tool to create designs or text without any line work. For this piece I painted four leaf clovers and dots on a watercolor paper as a simple piece of artwork for St. Patrick’s Day that my child could finish with green watercolors.

Materials:

• watercolor paper
• different shades of green watercolor paints and a watercolor brush
• masking fluid

How to:

1. Paint what shapes, design or text you would like on your paper. The masking fluid goes on white and dries to a firm yellow texture.
2. Once the mask is dry to the touch you can paint over your paper and masking fluid with watercolor paints. For our piece we chose to use varied shades of green.
3. Paint your paper in different shades throughout. If you add a new color as your paper is wet it will allow bleeding which creates that beautiful watercolor most really like.
4. Allow painting to fully dry. Once dry rub the masked spots with your finger to lift off the dried fluid.
5. Mat, frame and display.

My grade schooler painted this. It is such a simple piece perfect for any entry level artist nearly any age.

I love hanging my kids art all over my house. To see their creations surround me makes me happy!

I LOVE putting my kids art all around my house! Learn how to make the St. Patties resistance watercolor piece with your kids… coming to the blog soon!☘️☘️☘️ @simpleacresart

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Create watercolor resist art and enjoy the reward of decorating your home with your own creations! You may also like to learn further the process of creating art for such projects as this watercolor tree or watercolor cards. Dovidenia. XO

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