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Arts<br />
Picture: Angie Gough<br />
Kids have<br />
mess down<br />
to a fine art<br />
Doing art with kids is a reminder to enjoy the process<br />
as well as the result, writes Angie Gough<br />
We’re suckers for a spot of street art here<br />
at Arts Crusade HQ and recently, courtesy<br />
of Hackney Arts, we got to paint a real wall<br />
with real live street artist Joe X Clarke. Yep,<br />
for reals!<br />
half of the wall, the kids got totally into the<br />
flow, using their hands to get in between the<br />
bricks. Soon the adults were doing it too,<br />
the kids unwittingly reminding us not to be<br />
afraid to get messy.<br />
On a drizzly Saturday morning at Hackney<br />
Downs Studios, the whole family donned<br />
boilersuits and were let loose with rollers,<br />
cans and glorious pots of paint paint paint.<br />
Joe had mapped out the geometric mural<br />
in a kind of paint-by-numbers style but was<br />
really relaxed and open to it changing as the<br />
morning progressed. Focusing on the lower<br />
I’ve rarely seen the smallies so engrossed<br />
in the process of creating something. Joe<br />
gave gentle direction about how to use the<br />
spray cans and his older sister Rachel kept<br />
the rollers dipped and the masking tape nice<br />
and straight.<br />
The process was thoroughly enjoyable –<br />
from collaborating as a family and with<br />
30 LOVEEAST
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