Joy To The World

My 8-year-old loved learning how to layer the brush strokes to make baby Jesus's blanket look soft and real. The step-by-step guide for mixing skin tones was super helpful for getting Mary and Joseph's faces right. We hung it up in the kitchen right away.

I was a bit nervous about painting skin tones, but the step-by-step guide makes it so easy to build the figures with basic shapes. The finished portrait of the holy family looks beautiful with all the layered brush strokes my daughter added.

The instructions on mixing realistic skin tones made all the difference—my daughter's Mary and Joseph actually look like people instead of blobs. Layering brush strokes gave the painting real depth.