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Colourful paint brushes, paints and paintings laid out on a table

Painting from your window

Take inspiration from popular artists and learn how to paint from your window

This is a simple guided activity to take inspiration from landscape artists and paint the view from your window.

You will need

  • 1 sheet of inspirational pictures by David Hockney (see download below)
  • some tubes of paint
  • 2 paint brushes
  • 3 sheets of card (called canvases)
  • 1 jar of water to wash your brushes
  • a piece of cardboard or old plate to mix your paint on (like an artist’s paint palette)