Painting with Oil and Water is beautiful!
It is not only such a fantastic idea to do with children, but it really does create the most spectacular art!
Older children can also get a science lesson at the same time… no matter how much you try…Oil and Water do not mix!
What do you need?
Liquid Watercolors – you can make your own or buy these
Droppers like these plastic ones
Watercolor Paper – I use this watercolor paper
We used our Homemade Watercolor Paint and normal Sunflower Cooking Oil. I set this up in little jars with droppers.
We used droppers because paint brushes can smudge the paint a little – and although producing a similar result, droppers created these great little round bubbles of paint on top of the oil!
And so we got dropping…
First oil and then water…
The paint and oil creates this amazing effect… little watercolor droplets balance carefully – and a bit wobbly – on top of the oil…
It really is quite beautiful!
The next day – step 2 of our painting experiment – when the oil has soaked into the paper and is no longer providing a barrier, the watercolors have seeped in and spread out onto the paper – their bright colors remaining!
Where the oil was there are no colored splotches!
This is definitely a project that we are going to be doing again!
This painting technique would make the best little watercolor postcards ever!
3 comments
Such a fun way to paint!
Wow – this is so beautiful! Definitely want to give this one a try!
Thanks so much Emma! My Emma LOVED doing this – she looked at those water paint drops with wonder!