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Painting on newspaper is something you can happily do with kids. It’s cheap and disposable, and if you line the entire floor with it, they can’t go off the edges and onto the carpet.

But there’s a little more to it too, for the Draw Anyway artist (isn’t there always?).

Number 1, that disposability allows you to feel free and get some looser pictures. If they don’t work, so what?

And number 2, you can get some great effects. With watercolour or thin acrylics, for example, the newsprint will still show through, and with a bit of thought you can pick subjects that chime in with the writing below. I haven’t done that with my example, ahem, I’m just saying you could. Just as with collage, there’s real potential here for you to do clever things by exploiting the fact that the viewer is seeing both your image, and your medium.