Mirror Painting, Printing and Etching

Posted: August 6, 2012 | Author: Jena | Filed under: Artsy Fartsy, Experimentation, Imagination, large motor skill, Outside, Paint, Printing, sensory | Leave a comment »

The kids have been so busy and invested in their face painting this summer.
We have a designated mirror that comes out of the garage and lays on the curb of the driveway so the kids can watch themselves change their faces with color.

It’s only natural that eventually, someone thinks to paint the mirror. I quickly set the face paint aside and gather up the little bottles of tempera we received as a birthday gift in June. I put a brush in each container to keep from muddling the colors by accident. The kids fill the whole mirror with swirling, mixing colors with paintbrushes and hands, while a friend is still trying to paint her face.

They mirror painters leave a little corner of mirror clear for our friend.

We use up all the paint. We print painted swirls and scrapes on paper when our friend is finished with her face.

The next day, I set out the now dry painted mirror and 2 scraping sticks from a scratch paper book.

“I see the sky and the trees. It’s like I’m cutting out the glass.”
It’s great to discover the magic of subtractive media.

Then we have a grand series of thunder storms, and all the paint is washed off the mirror.
Time to start all over again.

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