Art Series: Kwik Sticks

Guess what?   A while back the Homeschool Crew Review did a review for Kwik Sticks.   Part of that was a giveaway and I WON!!!!   They've quite honestly been sitting on my couch for the past while, but today I hauled them out as I thought, hey...those would be neat to do with my art series.  YES.. I know they aren't a book, but here's my thinking .. art books inspire doing art, so Paint Sticks + Art books = Creativity and that's the point of my art series.. to inspire creativity in you and your children. 

So... did I pass?  :)

Now, I remember reading a bunch of the reviews for Kwik Sticks and people raved about how neat they are... neat as in tidy.  No Mess.

And they are right!

I did up this quick drawing so I could test a few things out.

1. No mess.  The holder fits nicely into the hand, you can move the paint stick up and down.  No Fuss.   Now I didn't go running my hand over the stick (I had places to go afterwards) but it was easy to work with.
2. Blending.   It dries quickly (hence no mess) but I don't know if you can see it, if you put down a colour and them immediately put a colour over top it blends a wee bit.  On the left side I put white over the blue and my attention to detail son caught it so it's obvious enough in real life.

3. Lines.   Can it do fine lines?   It does big lines and larger areas quite nicely.   As you can see I did some different things with the green paint stick  I loved the ease of the green dots for the leaves, wasn't keen on my lack of ability to make thin lines for the grass... it kinda worked but not really.
4. Fill in without crossing lines: IT does!   Even my small kite didn't have overhang and I'm not that careful of a person. 

End result: I think children will like working with these, particularly young children not looking to get really fine details.   You can find Kwik Sticks here.