Paintings on Newspaper

Whenever we paint I lay down newspaper to protect the table and guess what?....my daughter always loves painting on the newspaper more than the project at hand.  So I figured why not do some actual paintings on newspaper?  It actually went over really well. 

All you need for this project is:

Newspaper/Phonebooks/Magazine pages

Any Kind of paint (we used tempera)

brushes

Here is a gorgeous flower painting with a dark cloud above:

Simple line painting like Artist Franz Kline

Circle Painting

Another Circle Painting

Many famous artists have made paintings/drawings/collages on newspaper....including:

Franz Kline:

Untitled II

Juan Gris:

Bottle of Rum and Newspaper (1914)

Jasper Johns:

Detail of Flag (1954-55)

Kids always have the best ideas.  Listen to what your children want to make and you may actually make some discoveries.  

Have your children come up with ideas for projects?

This post is linked to: Kids Get Arty. Playtime