Family Self-Portrait Painting – The whole family made together!

 

Years ago I had this calendar that had really nice pictures in it of fabric birds and butterflies. I thought the photos were so nice that I would cut them out for card making or something….I just didn’t know what.

One day I came across the file folder and clippings and a light bulb came on! Maybe I could use it on mixed up painting/collage of sorts, and it would decorate our play area. I got a big white canvas…..dimensions 20 inches by 39 inches but you could make this much smaller…an 8 x 10 maybe…using sharpies instead of paint brushes…

First, I started out by drawing the circles for the heads and then had each family member decide how to draw their face and hair and body. After Miss M…quite an artist and then only 3 years old….after she drew my body for me quite sideways I had a bit of correcting to do.

Mommy was going through a bit of a hippy fashion stage so we painted me in a poncho and typical clothes I though I was pretty hip. Daddy likes soccer, the color green and hates dandelions which I actually like…so that is why the we have yellow dots on the ground. Tee Hee!

Miss B was taking classical guitar at the time so we painted that in and Miss M’s favorite stuffy…Hello kitty! Also we had a hamster named Happy Homer so he is in the window of our house. M loves sunflowers and I like crafts made out of tin-foil (so shiny!) so I put that in the path.

I actually could have added all sorts of things from the craft cupboard to make this even more interesting but I think the family lost interest. Cotton ball clouds, gold glitter glue on the sun….the pink roof could you sunflower seeds for texture…