Watch out! There are monsters all over this post!
Yes, there were more monsters left over from my last post! I also thought since I posted them over a holiday weekend I might need a follow-up post this week when people have gotten back into their normal blog-reading routines. 🙂 These are simple creations…some of the first totally creative things I ever did. Here are instructions if you’d like to try them yourself, or share them with a youngster who is “bored” and can’t quite find something that entertains them!
!. Starting with a piece of watercolor paper randomly paint a shape on it with some loose watercolor paint.
2. Before the paint dries cover it with a piece of plastic wrap.
3. Smooth the wrap and squish the paint around under the surface then set it aside to dry.
4. After the paint has dried remove the plastic wrap.
5. Turn the paper around and study it until you can see the beginnings of a creature.
6. Add the details with more paint and/or markers, pens, pencils.
The textured/mottled surface the paint and plastic wrap create is really interesting. Here is an image of “monster #10” (shown above) before the details were added:
This is a dinosaur that eventually was framed and sold for a little boy’s bedroom.
I often wonder what he thought of it, he seems a little battle-scarred and intimidating!
That’s it for the monsters – unless I decide to create some new ones!
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