Today we painted a simple drawing by cutting the shapes of the drawing out in such a way to make a stencil and transferring the image with one colour paint applied with a wet cloth. To make this type of artwork is very easy; all you need to do is drawing simple objects that cut out easily and are quickly recognizable by their shape.

We made two drawings, one pictures a house, two trees, some clouds and flying birds; the other is a lighthouse at sunset. After carefully cutting the shapes out we secured the paper onto some blue paper – but you can use any other colour – with paper tape.  We mixed some acrylic paint to make a violet shade and applied it with a wet cloth. Then we removed the paper stencil and were left with this one tone picture.

Happily shared with Kids Get Crafty.