Contemporary Art with kids

This is more like it.... 

Mummy can I help?

I decided to work along side by side with my son to produce a work . The idea for the rocket lollies came from the fact that they've been eating them in the hot weather. Trying to paint alone with a four year old is some what impossible and he kept asking to help... so I thought why not relax and enjoy painting in the now together.  The way he just made the marks and never doubted the fact of what or where things like eyes etc were was really inspiring. He still knows who each person/figure is.

After searching for images of the rocket lolly I found the artist ad illustrator Martin Wiscombe.

I love the fun colours on this canvas. 

Reminds me of the fun colours by the artist's two artists Gilbert and George who work together as the collaborative art duo Gilbert & George. They are known for their distinctive and highly formal appearance and manner in performance art, and also for their brightly coloured graphic-style photo-based artworks.

Louise Bourgeois - has been an influence to my work before and after our painting was finished I could help but see the resemblance in the work I created last year and the one Nathan and I had done. The print and sewn fabric I did i had named, Life with kids. Here was another work this time made with kids.

 Nathan had the idea for his family and friends and also the rainbow, mine last year had the rainbow and dots etc. funny I think. This I guess is what life with kids can be like most days.

Jean Tinguely

(22 May 1925 – 30 August 1991) was a Swiss painter and sculptor. He is best known for his sculptural machines or kinetic art, in the Dada tradition; known officially as metamechanics. Tinguely's art satirized the mindless overproduction of material goods in advanced industrial society. I like the colours and childlike expression

Jean-michel Basquiat

The work below has childlike qualities..

Jeff Koons was another artist I looked at afterwards . His work has a fun and childlike quality also... he works on a large scale and has people working as a team along side him...