Workshop #7
08.09.24
Tissue Paper Painting
As our wonderful summer season comes to an end, we begin to reminisce all those amazing moments summer has brought to us. In this project, children have to spray water to let tissue paper act as colors for their paintings. Spraying water, coloring in warm and cool tones, and drawing a summer-themed subject will lead children into their last reminiscing moments of summer week. Instead of using watercolor as a medium for a painting, tissue paper allows children to explore new types of ways for interactive painting style!
Workshop Flyer!
Overall materials needed:
White cardboard paper
Tissue paper
Spray water
Color pencil tools
Production steps:
Draw anything you like on a thin sheet of paper.
Put down colored tissue paper pieces on the paper.
Spray water on top of it and let it dry until the color comes through!
Use markers/ colored pencils for final touches!
My Reflection after the workshop:
After a chaotic summer break this year, I was finally able to return to Ronald McDonald House to hold my in-person art workshop for those staying in the house. I was a little nervous today during the workshop especially because I expected all of the kids I’ve met in my previous workshops would have left the house throughout summer when I wasn’t able to come. However, I already experienced this before as the house is only for those families whose children have to get treatments from nearby children’s hospital. Also, I would be extremely happy for children who stayed in the house eventually leave and return to their original home where they would further explore their potentials and possibilities throughout their lives. I really hope I was able to become part of their life chapters and inspire them to try new things in life to discover their talents and things that make them happy.
As usual, the first person I met in the doorstep of the craft room was that one child named Amy, who had attended my workshop for so many times about a year now. Although she was planning to leave the house over summer, there were some surgeries and treatments she still needed to get done. I’d love Amy to explore different possibilities outside the house, but I always have a warm happiness whenever Amy welcomes me during the workshop. She always shows me her biggest smile and gives her biggest, warmest hug whenever I enter the craft room and prepare for the workshop. She sees me as her “big” friend, and I always love how she yearns to draw more and more. Her signature “cat unicorn” is my favorite drawing I’ve seen from all the children I’ve met before in this house, and I’d love her to explore her own character even more. Amy and I talk for a while before the workshop gets busier with more kids coming in.
Else than Amy, I was able to meet about four more children during the workshop: Natalie, Larissa, Suzan… They were all close friends and siblings, and I was able to have a heartfelt conversation with their mom. She was very curious about me as a student and my purpose of doing this community project. Whenever parents ask me about how and why I’m doing this project, I always answer with a bright, definite answer: I love art, I love children, and I love seeing them do art and explore their happiness. This one parent I was able to talk to today helped me boost my confidence and hope about this project as she encouraged to keep going and thanked me for doing this even if I was busy as a high school student. She told me people my age don’t like doing stuff that I’m doing, and all her compliments and questions warmed my heart and imbued me with hope to expand this project further and impact more children forward. Today’s workshop was another blast in this project’s journey, and I hope to return back with my reflection post with a new update about building up a team within Dreamers’ Palette!
