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A Study in Mark-Making: Children’s Creative Development & Monochromatic Art

  Working on dark-coloured paper is a fascinating study in mark-making and tonality. When you limit the palette to a single colour, the focus shifts to how the materials are explored and manipulated, and to the relationship between the artist and the medium. Over the holidays, we explored drawing on black paper with white markers. It reminded me of the time the children investigated white as a colour. The materials offered were black paper, white-coloured pencils, white oil pastels, white crayons, and white paint.  Through the process of creating with these materials, children learn that pressure, movement, and time shape the outcome of their mark-making. The journey of exploring how materials interact drives children’s early art explorations. Often, you can observe children working with materials until the paper becomes saturated, ripped, and muddied with colour. This is part of a developmental experience that deepens as children nurture their understanding of how materials...
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Colour Play ~ Exploring Tints and Shades


✨𝒞𝑜𝓁𝑜𝓊𝓇 𝐸𝓍𝓅𝓁𝑜𝓇𝒶𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃𝓈 ~ 𝒯𝒾𝓃𝓉𝓈 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒮𝒽𝒶𝒹𝑒𝓈✨ 



The art studio holds so many opportunities for exploration and inquiry. Each year we see the delight in the children’s eyes as they discover the properties of its materials through their explorations. Mixing colours with paint is by far one of the children’s favourite creative explorations. Often for some children coming to school presents their first experience with paint and creative materials. We began our creative journey in art when my own two children were toddlers in high chairs. We simply taped the paper to the high chair tray and began with big crayons exploring their creative thinking and engaging their bodies in connecting with artistic mediums. This was always supervised closely and all materials were safe for children of this age. Whether you started early exposing your children to creative materials or not, it is never too late to introduce them within your play experiences even if your children are older. 




The children within the classroom have been sharing their colour mixing discoveries as through paint since the beginning of the school year. As part of our extension of their thinking, they were offered an opportunity to explore tints and shades with the tempera paint in the studio. Several children were inquiring about the colour pink. So an offering of red, white and black paint was set out on the table. As the children blended and experimented with the amount of each paint colour, they delighted in the various tints and shades of red that they could create. As they continued to paint, they were presented with the paint chip cards that are part of the materials we offer in the studio. This helped us to compare and discuss the various colours created by the children. Since then they have continued to explore colour mixing with other colours and have applied what they learned through this experience in their new work within the art studio. 






We will continue to explore our thoughts around colour and look forward to exploring colour play with new materials and mediums with the children. 


"Colour is a power 
which directly influences the soul." 

Wassily Kandinsky

To see more of our other colour explorations click here!


🌈 Happy Colour Explorations, 
𝑀𝒾𝒸𝒽𝑒𝓁𝓁𝑒

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