How to Select Children’s Drawings for Your Art Gallery Wall

Every family goes through a period where they think their children just might be the next Picasso or Rembrandt, and they consider turning some of their child’s contemporary art into canvas wall art as an alternative to the tried-and-true fridge-and-magnet gallery. Your child may not be the next Picasso, but they’re certainly churning out a lot of artwork, and some of it is actually quite interesting – and at any rate they’re happy and excited and turning some of it into gorgeous canvas prints to hang on the wall will be an exciting moment for them.

That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t take a curator’s eye to them. It’s always difficult to be objective with your children’s creative expressions, but the key here isn’t to decide what’s good or bad about the drawings your kids are producing, but rather what will look best when hung on your wall. Creating an art gallery wall for the artwork your children are creating is a great idea – if you follow these simple rules for selecting the pieces to include.

Child’s Art Gallery Wall Tip #1: Colour Selection

The first thing to consider when choosing which of your kids’ masterpieces to display is colour. Children often work with the same tools over and over again, for obvious reasons, and usually work in their favourite colours repeatedly. While the subject and technique your child uses may be interesting (at least to their parents!) this often means the actual drawings are all in the same colour palette.

That can work to your advantage when creating an art gallery for your kids – consider it a theme, or a ‘period’ (like Picasso’s Blue Period!) and choose examples that share colours and will look cohesive and like they’re part of a grouping.

On the other hand, too much of one colour can make everything look the same, especially if your child is more of an ‛abstract’ artist. In that case, finding one or two in a different colour ‛temperature’ can save your art gallery from looking too matchy-matchy.

The final consideration is the colour of the room in which you’ll be hanging all of these canvas prints. Choosing pieces that complement the wall colour will make the room look better and make your Kids Art Gallery look more professional and ‛done’.

Child’s Art Gallery Wall Tip #2: Showing Evolution

If your child has been drawing for a while, take a moment to look back through their pictures and we’re pretty sure you’ll see something startling: Development. In childhood, our brains are developing very quickly and we learn new techniques constantly. Your little artist is no doubt gaining new levels of artistic expression every day.

Keep this in mind when selecting picture to include as canvas art. You can either use the slow evolution of their style as the point of the art gallery, starting with older pictures and then moving forward to demonstrate their growth, or you can eschew the older works and select the more sophisticated pieces to display.

Of course, as this is a Kids Art Gallery, you’ll likely be rotating in new pieces all the time, which will also show their development.

Even if your child doesn’t become the next Great Painter, having their art preserved forever as gorgeous canvas prints not only gratifies them in the moment and encourages their creativity, it leaves you with lasting memories so you can recapture those moments of wonder when you saw them do something wholly unexpected. Click here to begin creating your own Kids Art Gallery – and preserving your own memories – now!