Using Watercolors And Arts For Children
Jul 31st, 2010 by Aldouspi

Watercolors For Children

Involving children with art helps them explore their creativity, imagination, artistic skills and kill boredom. And for the value created it is very inexpensive. Art is great way for children to express themselves and understand the world in new ways. There are different kinds of artistic expressions they can explore and watercolor painting is one of them.

Watercolors are easy to clean, so children can easily use them. There are also different watercolor exercises that children can do. For example, the wet on wet technique. Let the children apply watercolor on a dry and wet piece of paper. Let them describe how applying paint on dry and wet surfaces are different and where they can be used.

  • With color blending, let children mix different colors and draw different images that they see around them.
  • Black and white watercolor painting is another great activity. Color the entire paper in black and then let it dry. After drying, draw on the black paper using white watercolor with their own design. It could also be done the other way around, with the paper white and the watercolor designs in black.
  • Thread painting uses thread which is dipped in paint. Arrange the thread on the paper in whatever way you want. Then press and pull the thread creating designs on the paper.
  • Use watercolor in coloring decorative items that the children have made like paper maches.
  • Watercolor painting is also a great activity for parents and their kids. Everything nowadays is so fast-paced that we forget to spend more time with family and children. Watercolor painting is a great way to slow down and enjoy life with our family.

When teaching children with art, it is important to understand that what the children see is different from what adults see. They may color animals which are far from their actual colors. Let the children express themselves in this creative experience. It is important to keep in mind that children have potential for artistic expression. Parents, guardians and teachers have the responsibility to let children express their artistry.

There are different studies showing that involving children in art helps them reduce their stress. They are able to develop self-confidence, since they have created something which is appreciated by other people. Aside from improving their confidence, they are also able to improve the senses like vision and sense of touch.

Teaching art to kids helps in their cognitive growth, improve their memory, increases understanding and encourages compentency. Art also improves their symbolic communication skills since children are able to translate what they see around them into their own symbols and reflections of reality.

For older children, parents may still interest them in painting. Art materials and art books may pique their interest and eventually involve them in art and craft making. Watercolor painting is just one of many art media which can be maximized by the kids. Adolescents and young teens can explore other media like comic strips. Parents should keep in mind that children’s involvement in art should never be forced, instead the children should be provided with opportunities where they can make their own decision.


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A Cartoonist’s New Philosophy Of Cartooning
Jun 17th, 2009 by Aldouspi

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I started my odyssey into learning the vocation of making cartoons in the late ’90’s. I hadn’t a clue what was to come. Before I embarked upon this mysterious venture, I decided it would be to my advantage to talk to America’s most visible cartoonists. I was surprised how many of them were open and available to speak with me.

Fortunately, I was both too young and naive to know NOT to bother the masters. I was able to track down “Peanuts” creator Charles Schulz through his art dealer, Marc Cohen.

When Schulz picked up his phone, I started asking the five journalistic W’s (Who, what, when, why, and where). His (and others) advice turned out to be exactly what I needed to know. My “cartoon philosophy” had begun. It has since evolved, but I can look back and easily see Schulz knew “what was to come” in the world of cartooning. He knew the Internet was the key as was/is merchandising.

Schulz went into cartooning because in his words “I tried a lot of other things and couldn’t do them very well.”

I could easily identify. I asked him if there was a way to make a living in cartooning. There was a long pause. He assured me there was plenty, but not to expect it in newspapers. He told me that even if you do get syndicated, the money is still just pennies per newspaper and that the smart way to approach it, that is, to look at it as a career, is image merchandising, that is, reproducing images on such gifts and collectibles as coffee mugs, aprons, T-shirts and the like.

My artistic skills are mediocre at best and I told him so. I added that my vision was to create a cartoon that had the same offbeat type humor as Gary Larson, but with a more artistic flair, not as “cartoony”; It was to be a color cartoon in which the artwork, for the most part was more fine art than cartoon art, and that I wanted a different look and feel to each cartoon, but a theme, focused on wordplay and picture-play in which, at times, the viewer might have to take a few moments before the “aha” effect came, that is, if the viewer so desired (to actually like the cartoon).

Schulz assured me that nearly 20% of all cartoons we see in the newspapers are team efforts, that is, an artist and writer. And that if I did not feel my own artwork was up to snuff, to recruit an artist to draw my concepts.

He also encouraged me to read as much as I could about Walt Disney because what I was about to attempt was actually a Disney model without animation; he actually called it Disney meets Gary Larson, which was a bit flattering to say the least.

After these incredible conversations with Charles Schulz, I started getting other points of view from other cartoonists who I felt “had arrived”. Most worked in similar genres as The Far Side, such as Leigh Rubin (Rubes), Dave Coverly (Speed Bump), and Jon McPherson (Close To Home).

I was astonished at their openness. Leigh Rubin and I became good friends and talked quite a bit. He seemed to lead me the rest of the way regarding the “business side of cartooning”. He had become syndicated worldwide, with several published books, and he did not seem to mind that I was just beginning. He simply had/has a big heart. I will never forget that kind of generosity and his willingness to lead me in a direction that made it work for me.

And, of course, the same is true for Charles Sparky Schulz (Sparky by the way was what he liked to be called.) That was the name of his favorite dog, a Schnauzer; and I knew I liked him right away. I have a tendency to hang with fellow animal lovers, and Schulz also talked with a tremendous splattering of witty banter; a type I didn’t often see through the eyes of Snoopy, which was meant for family viewers. Schulz had a sense humor that seemed more Monty Python-ish.

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There seemed to be a common thread regarding the philosophy of cartooning, amongst all of the masters. Which is, sure, you must make a living in this world, but keep the day job.

Cartooning is a labor of love, and, only 1% or so actually end up doing it for a living. One must approach it with a very open mind and a love for making people laugh, and to be flexible, as the Internet at the time, was changing the whole nature of the cartoon business.

“Sparky’s” advice turned out to be pristine. The World Wide Web was changing everything, including the business of cartooning. Licensed image products became even more of the key to making it work than Sparky Schulz had felt; and he had seen it coming.

Today, though my cartoons appear in publications worldwide; mostly trade magazines, college textbooks and on websites, the majority of my take is from the sales of funny gifts and collectibles. The past decade has whizzed by and I can remember my beginnings as if they were yesterday.

How in the world could I have even started such a journey without the wise words of these cartoon masters?

Though I know it has been hard work, just as I was told it would be, I also have been very lucky. I became what might consider “a success” in a strange business, when told, chances were as good as winning the lottery, even less so if one was/is not such a great artist such as me. But I continue “the battle” as, in some small way, I figure if just one person laughs a little more in his or her day, due to something my team created, the world is just a little better as well.

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