Free Art Activity pack from Hello Print Studio; and visit Picasso and Paper virtually at the Royal Academy

Paper is a versatile and tactile medium for handicraft and creativity. Now Hello Print Studio in Margate, Kent (UK) has released a set of five characters arranged with wood block letters and type icons that you can print out onto A4 size paper and use as colouring sheets.

Hello Charlie - a colouring page on NatMaks.com

They have also released an assembly kit of wood block letters and icons which you can download, cut out, arrange however you like and create your own characters - faces, robots, animals and more.

These activity kits named "Hello Prints" are free to use and will be perfect for you and your whole family to explore and have fun with while self-distancing at home during the lockdown.

Characters above and below are created using woodblock icons and letters.

All available on their website: natmaks.com​
NAT MAKS is Natascha Maksimovic, a German designer & illustrator based at Resort Studios in Margate, Kent, UK.  After studying at Camberwell College of Arts, Natascha went on to work for Ridley Scott within the film industry and has since set up her own illustration and print studio working on various commissions, creating paper and homeware products, all made in England.

Meanwhile, to further immerse yourself in the world of paper, you may wish to join the Royal Academy website which is offering an insider virtual tour of their "Picasso and Paper" exhibition.

While the RA in London remains temporarily closed during the lockdown, it is putting a weekly dose of art online, delivering “a little bit of inspiration, escapism and creativity”
straight to patrons’ inbox”.

The RA's “Picasso and Paper” exhibition this week brings together more than
300 works on paper spanning the iconic artist’s 80-year career.

“For Picasso, paper was a material with limitless possibilities,” said the RA. The artist experimented with everything from newsprint and napkins to decorative wallpaper.

Through the virtual tour, in the comfort of your home, you can admire Picasso’s works, from studies for Guernica to a 4.8-metre-wide collage.