Open-ended Art: Orange And Black

The theme for Open-ended Art this week is “Orange and Black” at Mummies Wise Little Bookworms. Frankly, I have no idea what to do with Sophie. She is on “hurricane” mode due to her runny nose and cough. Although I keep telling myself to go easy on her, it gets to me after some time. I wish she could just lie on the bed and rest, like how adults do it to recover.



Thus, I thought we ought to do something simple and enjoyable for art. Lately, Sophie has been scribbling with chalk on our blackboard and she seems to like it a lot. So, I gave Sophie a piece of black construction paper and some orange and yellow chalk. I wanted to show her what she could do with chalk on a piece of damp paper. The chalk marks would look bolder and more brilliant than the usual powdery and soft effect. The oil pastels would also give a nice strong feel to the drawing. Alas, Sophie ended up “cleaning” the damp paper with a duster and rubbed off its surface. Okay, so that apparently would not work.



Therefore I tossed the “damaged” piece of paper and gave Sophie the second one, but not before removing the water and duster. My funny little girl decided to draw using her “train engineer”. I think she might be looking for his feet to trace… Anyway, she seemed to like the bits that broke off her chalk as she hit it against the paper and table. She started blowing at it with her saliva splattering all over. Sigh, I had to stop her.



I was crazy to give another go at the “chalk on damp paper” effect. Sophie is very interactive when it comes to art. She always wants me to join in and draw with her. I took the opportunity to show her how to create the smoky effect by rubbing.



Sophie was obviously not the wee bit impressed by the oil pastels. She was yawning and doodling on my hand and fingers instead. How disappointing! And I was hoping she might like oil pastels…