We need to make a back drop for an alternative school festival being held in Kolkata in November. We traced seven children's bodies with pencil, perfected the line with a black paint outline and then had the children fill in the bodies with seven different bright colors. THese are going to be cut out and stitched onto jute panels that will be hung behind our stage.
A friend who saw these tracings had the wonderful idea of doing this to various family members who come for what they called a "sister fest." They plan to do the tracings on old sheets and then drape them around the backyard. People could even take home a sister this way!
One time I did these on big sheets of paper with my own children, colored them in with clothing their grandmother had sent them, folded them up and posted them. She hung them on her wall at home and said, "I really feel their presence!"
The children loved getting into different silly jumping, dancing, throwing poses on the canvas; and loved even more painting the big spaces inside the black lines.
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