The story of a painting

A piece of art created by C and her best friend at nursery (age 4).

Making art- when do you know when it is finished?

C and A worked together for over an hour developing their painting without the self-imposed pressure that adults often feel about 'spoiling their work'.

C started painting on a canvas. A came over and said "Shall I help you?" "What do you have to do?"

"You have to put it up their" (the paint)

"Shall I get some more light green?"

"That's too dark...use light."

"Yeah that's right. Put it down there, up here, down there,"

"Now I've got to use red. You need to use that colour (purple). That's for princesses."

"Look what happened to it. I made a different colour! It's still orangey. It's like a gooey, brown orange."

Then the girls used their fingers to mix the pain, tentatively at first. Then they used their whole hand, then two hands.

"look at our hands!" they said, laughing.

"2 princesses!... Shall we rub them out now?"

"I'm wiping it away"

C and A wiped away the images and decided to wash their hands and use brushes again.

They applied more paint then decided to stick collage material on top.

"I'm going to put this here... you can see yourself in this part."

C painted over the her netting. "This is going to be very bumpy!"

They were very particular about what to choose and where to stick it.

Finally they declared their art work "finished!"