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House Portrait exhibition

January 3, 2015 by Lin Kerr 4 Comments

Two more days to let me know about the swatch-swop!

Today is an exhibition of my little artist’s buildings as a wrap-up of the 2014 artwork by the girls. Here are the final surprise paintings for their mum and dad.

My House by Hattie age 6
My House by Hattie age 6
My House by Isabel age 8.5
My House by Isabel age 8.5

I love the way both little artists have interpreted their home as very large. You can see how they copied the windows, but also got a bit confused with the front door and steps leading up to it. The bricks were a lot of work. When you are very small and the sheet of paper is big it’s easy to put a window or door in the ‘wrong place’! The watercolours over the tea wash has given everything a lovely muted look – Isabel happily sponged the greenery with a sea-sponge but Hattie found the sponge ‘yukky’ and didn’t want to use it, so she used a brush. The white details were added in acrylic with a brush. I think both houses are very expressive and could easily illustrate a Charles Dicken’s story!

Artists at work
Artists at work

Here are their other masterpieces from this year.

Millook Holiday Cottage by Hattie age 5.5
Millook Holiday Cottage by Hattie age 5.5
Millook Holiday Cottage by Izzy age 8
Millook Holiday Cottage by Izzy age 8

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My cousins' house in Sweden - left by Hattie, right by Izzy
My cousins’ house in Sweden – left by Hattie, right by Izzy

This is their cousin’s house in Sweden. I had all four granddaughters doing these, but we left before Elva and Nomi finished theirs and I never got photos. 🙁 We sat in the apple orchard and the house was very high up (the camera flattens the depth) and they put the apple trees into the foreground – and painted the apples with their fingers. Hattie’s picture is on the left and you can see the steps down into the orchard and the washing line which was actually more where Isabel placed it – level with the house. Isabel’s trees were very accurately shown. They all started their artworks up at the house on the verandah, with wet paper and watercolour washes of mostly green with blue at the top. Clouds were ‘lifted’ out. Then we went down to the orchard with towels to sit on and waterproof felt-tips (Sharpies) to do the drawing. Trees were drawn with walnut ink and dip pens, then painted with water – which releases the ink. The house was done in white oil pastel over the watercolour sky.10-10-14 - Art in Sweden2-72 10-10-14 - Art in Sweden3-72

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Comments

  1. Laurie says

    January 3, 2015 at 1:24 am

    So sweet – thanks for sharing.
    Happy New Year!

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  2. Rosalind says

    January 3, 2015 at 10:36 am

    Your granddaughters are lucky to have such expert tips on art from a young age, especially on colour mixing and perspective. Lovely pictures!

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    • Lin says

      January 3, 2015 at 6:46 pm

      Hi Rosalind
      Thanks for your comments.

      I’m not really doing much in the way of colour mixing yet, so they are learning more by using the colours I mix. This is because its my artist’s quality paints and I don’t want to let them loose on my tubes or pans! But, having said that, we chat about colour. I’m hoping that in the same way that French children develop their taste buds by exposure to good food and discussions about food, they will imbibe a sense of colour. Even if I did let them squeeze the tubes, I would still limit their colour palette, by only putting out a few colours.
      Lin

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  3. Jane Knights says

    January 4, 2015 at 6:14 pm

    Lovely paintings!! It’s obvious who they take after with their talent!!

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