{"id":1734,"date":"2014-03-09T08:30:11","date_gmt":"2014-03-09T16:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/delightfilledart.wordpress.com\/?p=1734"},"modified":"2016-01-23T16:13:13","modified_gmt":"2016-01-24T00:13:13","slug":"kids-paint-with-string","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/?p=1734","title":{"rendered":"Kids paint with string"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"kad-wp-gallery62\" class=\"kad-wp-gallery kad-light-wp-gallery clearfix kt-gallery-column-3 rowtight\"><div class=\"tcol-lg-4 tcol-md-4 tcol-sm-4 tcol-xs-6 tcol-ss-12 g_item\"><div class=\"grid_item kad_gallery_fade_in gallery_item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Lillia-string-painting.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox\" class=\"lightboxhover\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Lillia-string-painting-400x400.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Lillia-string-painting-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Lillia-string-painting-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Lillia-string-painting-800x800.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" class=\"light-dropshaddow\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div><div class=\"tcol-lg-4 tcol-md-4 tcol-sm-4 tcol-xs-6 tcol-ss-12 g_item\"><div class=\"grid_item kad_gallery_fade_in gallery_item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Caleb-string-painting.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox\" class=\"lightboxhover\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Caleb-string-painting-400x400.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Caleb-string-painting-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Caleb-string-painting-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Caleb-string-painting-730x730.jpg 730w, https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Caleb-string-painting-365x365.jpg 365w, https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Caleb-string-painting-800x800.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" class=\"light-dropshaddow\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p>After I finished <a title=\"Geometric patterns\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/2014\/03\/03\/geometric-patterns\/\">my string painting<\/a> the other day, the kids decided it looked fun enough to try. It worked pretty well. I had done this at art school using ink, which created a cleaner black line, but I wanted this to be waterproof so I used thinned acrylic paint. Here are the steps:<\/p>\n<p>1. Add water or acrylic medium to black acrylic paint to thin, until it is an ink-like consistency.<\/p>\n<p>2. Prepare area and child to get messy. Get out a few paint brushes to scrape off excess paint, and a paper towel.<\/p>\n<p>3. Cut a piece of string about 6 inches long.<\/p>\n<p>4. Have the child hold the end of the string and then let it dangle into the paint, soaking it. It must be quite wet to create a fluent line. Just play with letting the string drag and dangle to create different shapes. Reapply paint as needed.<\/p>\n<p>5. Let paint dry completely.<\/p>\n<p>6. Using watercolour and a medium sized paint brush, have the child paint several spots of the painting with one colour at a time. After painting about 3-4 spots one colour, rinse the brush thoroughly and pick another colour. When most of the spaces are painted, voil\u00c3\u00a0, you are finished.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After I finished my string painting the other day, the kids decided it looked fun enough to try. It worked pretty well. I had done this at art school using ink, which created a cleaner black line, but I wanted &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/?p=1734\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kt_blocks_editor_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27,29,36],"tags":[63,71,110,114,118,265,330,462,568,983],"class_list":["post-1734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-2","category-creative-2","category-parenting-2","tag-abstract","tag-acrylic-painting","tag-art-ideas","tag-art-project","tag-art-teacher","tag-childrens-art","tag-creative-kids","tag-fun-kids-art-project","tag-kids-crafts","tag-watercolor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}