Tuesday 14 October 2014

Wallpaper and stencils

When I was a child my Mum quite often got out an old roll of leftover wallpaper and cut a long strip off for us to draw on.
We'd get some large stones and put one on each corner to hold it down, two of us on one side of the table and two on the other.
So whilst I was ironing Malc was doing some odd jobs and Callum and Clark cleaned out the rabbits Soloman and Cody sat at the table and used some stencils. They were occupied for well over an hour.
I did suggest an Autumn picture and they came up with this which includes a flying plane on fire and a gravestone for a dead dog. Apparently it walked backwards onto a sharp pole and bled to death!
I must stop them watching "casualty"
When I mentioned that I thought it was autumn themed they told me that they had included trees!
Their masterpiece!


11 comments:

  1. Ways to travel for an Autumn holiday obviously!

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  2. Ha ha, well they've certainly got imaginations. My dad was a printer on a newspaper so he used to bring home rolls of blank paper for me to draw on.

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  3. Very nice indeed, from what I can see anyway! x

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    1. Haha. It was quite a big piece of paper and my photography skills are non existent!

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  4. Thats brilliant! I love how the sheep is as big as the house, you would have trouble getting one in the freezer. Wallpaper is a great idea for drawing on, I buy the rolls of lining paper to make patterns and for Willow to draw on. xx

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    1. I think lessons in perspective might be appropriate Karen!

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  5. Ooh this brings back memories when the big three were little. They could spend hours drawing and coloring on the backs of old rolls of wallpaper and like Karen I would buy the 99p rolls of lining paper from B & Q as it was more economical then buying reams of A4. I suspect it might be a little dearer than that now as we are taking a number of years ago.

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    1. It may be a little more expensive Mitzi but it's still much more economical than photocopying paper x I'm going to have to go and price some up x

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  6. Haha! This really bought bak memories - all our paintings and pictures were on the back of old woodchip wallpaper when I was small. It made for some great textures :)

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