Masked Shapes Painting

Some people say, "Like father, like son."  In this house, we like to ensure it.  After taking the son to the EAA AirVenture (the mecca of all airshows) this July, he is thoroughly obsessed with airplanes...just like his daddy.  He'll sit and look at airplane magazines for hours, and never tires of saying "WOW!" every time he sees one.  All this being said, I was really excited for today's art project.  In fact, it was the first time in a while that I actually eagerly anticipated him waking from his nap (once it had surpassed the hour mark, anyway).  

We tried several methods of applying paint: hands, brushes, drumming, dumping paint, rubbing the paint cup on the canvas, etc.

Once we were done painting, the canvas looked like this (above).

While the paint was still wet, I removed the contact paper that I had earlier cut into the plane and cloud shapes and applied to the canvas.  This plane is Daddy's favorite plane, "The Spirit of St. Louis."  I was happy with how it turned out.  My son (and his daddy) said, "WOW!"