Cartridge paper

[AnonyMouse_1469]

We have been lucky enough to be given a large pack of A3 cartridge paper ( white). As it is such beautiful quality, i'd like to do something really special with it...................we have lots of sugar paper etc, for general painting activities, but I want to make the most of this lovely paper. Any ideas?? I have thought about some printing.....maybe simple lino-type printing..........but what else???

[AnonyMouse_19782]

Something we did for mothers and father's day a while back was paintings of their mums and dads. One of us would sit by the easel with the children and discuss with each child what their mummy and daddy looked like, and then talked about shapes the body was made up from and then let the children paint - it was a little adult involved, but it did give lovely results which our parents did love. It also meant that the children didn't get the opportunity to "go wild" the adults there could whip the painting away before they kept on painting on it. We then replaced the paper with our ordinary painting paper and let the children do as they wished as usual.

Maybe you could get them to paint the staff and then you could display them on your walls - bit different to the usual photographs!

[AnonyMouse_5970]

As cartridge paper (why is it called that?!) is more absorbent, how about trying dripping colour with pippettes or using marbling ink?

[AnonyMouse_13453]

Ooh what about that water paint thing I did with the cling film, I posted a pic in 'our own makes' thread. Or use diluted food colouring dripped onto wet paper with droppers and then scatter salt crystals and see what happens. Just the right sort of paper for both of those. You could cut it in half to make smaller pictures that are easier to pop into slippy pockets or frames

Edited May 6, 2015 by Cait

[AnonyMouse_19782]

Should be excellent quality paper for doing ink marbling too reading on from Cait's suggestion