Make some beautiful spring themed tissue paper bleeding art to brighten up the art gallery at home or in the classroom! Only two materials required to make this gorgeous Spring themed art work with the kids, and mess free too!
Here is the next in our series of wonderful posts from talented guest bloggers around the world, while I enjoy my new baby moon! This art activity is contributed by Jen of Mama. Papa. Bubba, a totally gorgeous site which you must check out and follow.
Hello, lovely The Imagination Tree readers! I’m Jen, a Canadian mama who currently lives in the Middle East. You can find me over at Mama.Papa.Bubba. where I share about our adventures in play, creating, healthful cooking, and travel. I’ve been a huge fan of The Imagination Tree for years now, so it’s truly lovely to be here today and I hope you enjoy our tissue paper bleeding spring garden art.
If you’ve not tried it before, tissue paper bleeding is a fun and unique art technique where you basically transfer the colour from tissue paper onto another surface – in this case, watercolour paper. The other materials for this project are fairly basic… Squares of tissue paper {you’ll want to make sure they’re the bleeding type as not all are}, a small misting bottle filled with water, a pair of scissors, and a thin black marker.
To get started, I invited my daughter to lightly mist a large sheet of watercolour paper.
Then she simply began placing tissue paper pieces onto the watercolour paper, adding little sprays of water when needed. With spring on its way, we decided that it would be fun to create pretty spring gardens, but obviously anything goes here. In fact, I find that tissue paper bleeding is an absolutely wonderful technique for creating abstract art also.
My little one enjoyed creating her spring garden so much that we decided to create one more piece, but together this time. When we were done, we gave both art pieces a light misting of water and let them alone to dry.
Before long, we noticed that the tissue squares that had been held firmly in place with water were dry and lifting away from the paper.
So with that, my little one simply gathered them up and off the page.
The results were beautiful and we most certainly could have left the pieces as they were, but just for fun, we decided to do some outlining with our thin black marker.
And here are our final pieces… Pretty don’t you think? I do hope you’ll try this project with your little ones, and in the meantime, pop on over and visit us on Facebook and Instagram. We’d love to connect with you. 🙂
