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Watercolor Mosaic – Art and Math

Last week I saw this beautiful watercolor mosaic art over at Cindy’s Our Journey Westward. Somewhere in the back of my mind I also remember Barb-Harmony Art Mom and her boys doing this as well. Cindy shared that she saw the idea at Heather’s Blog She Wrote. It’s such a fun, easy activity with beautiful results. No wonder all sorts of families are enjoying it.

So, last Friday afternoon we had the most fun pulling out the watercolors…

Figuring out a design (Eldest Girl’s)…

Splattering…

Then letting it dry and cutting it in squares all the same size.

Then rearranging and gluing into a beautiful, new piece of artwork!

Psst. This also counts as math, as Cindy pointed out in her post, Abstract Art and Living Math. (My mosaic, above)

It also makes for a fun afternoon art activity. And decorates a chalkboard nicely.

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  1. All Things Beautiful says

    October 11, 2011 at 7:56 AM

    What fun! I especially liked Eldest girl’s finished product with the spacing between the squares.

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  2. PrairieJenn says

    October 11, 2011 at 8:00 AM

    Love this idea! Thanks for sharing. We got the watercolors out a few weeks age and still can’t put them away:) We keep running across cool art activities we want to try.

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  3. Cindy says

    October 11, 2011 at 8:03 AM

    I like the spacing in between the squares, too! It gives another dimension to the abstractness.

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  4. Heather says

    October 11, 2011 at 1:57 PM

    The spaces are like a quilt with a sashing! Very cool!

    Baby food jars for water cups…oh man that is brilliant. No more babies here…what to do. I’ll ask around nicely or maybe spend the cash for new jars. haha We recently had to dump our plastic cups because we couldn’t get the pond mud off after our last camping trip.

    Thanks1

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    • Hodgepodgemom says

      October 11, 2011 at 2:30 PM

      Heather! They are pimento jars – from all the pimento cheese we make around here. YUM. Thanks ladies. We really, really had fun with this. I appreciate all the others sharing so we’d know about it and could enjoy it too.

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