Kid's Art: Fun With Tape

My good friend Jen (in real life and bloggy land)

posted this great tape resist project that she did with her daughter

last week. Check out her post at Paint Cut Paste here.

I don't know why I forgot about taping off painting edges

and using painter's tape or masking tape

for resist effects.

I watched my mom do it a million times

(she's a fabulous watercolorist!)

I used to do it all the time in my own

pre-mommyhood-artist watercoloring days.

So fun to try a new technique with your kids!

With the Frog Princess firmly

ensconsed in First Grade all week,

the Mini-Saurus and I had

more

crafty time than usual.

So, we taped off a piece of white drawing paper.

I should have used heavy weight watercolor paper

or my old printmaking favorite Arches Rives BFK.

(oh...talk dirty to me! You have NO idea how much I love that paper)

The paper we used was old and whimpy

so it tore a bit when we pulled up the tape.

grrrr....

Or it was because we used

cheap-o kid craft masking tape

instead of real painter's tape

but the 2.5 year old didn't care or seem to notice!

We both had a blast and she was

proud of her finished masterpiece.

Now I want to try it again on canvas!

And of course the Frog Princess came home

and saw it...

now she wants to make one too.

Guess what we'll be doing this weekend?!