Children participating in Pattern Play Collaborative Artwork, painting the "Companionship" mural during the Art Story Artist in Residence program. Inclusive group art project encouraging creativity, confidence, and collaboration.

Pattern Play Collaborative Artwork: How We Create Group Art Together

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Quick Takeaway

Pattern Play Collaborative Artwork makes group art simple and fun. I’ve facilitated over 60 community and school-based projects with more than 2,000 participants, and this post shares how my three-stage Pattern Play Collaborative Art framework guides the process step by step. Explore 200+ articles here on collaborative art, and I want to help you do the same with my helpful digital resources for teachers and group leaders.

How We Create Group Art Together?

You’ll create by painting together in shared art experiences…

Collaborative Art is about the connection, the communication, and the confidence building. It just happens to look beautiful at the end because people working together create wonderful things on the way.

I help you make beautiful collaborative artworks together

They are called Inclusive Social Art Projects. It’s really fun to paint with other people. You’ll be so creative and feel so proud. My collaborative art projects are inclusive of all ages and abilities.

My style of collaborative painting is called
Pattern Play Collaborative Art

We have fun Painting Around each other on the beautiful artworks you create!

Each social art project has three stages:

  1. Messy Playing – Let’s dive into your creativity…
  2. Exploring – Let’s paint circles together…
  3. BLING! – Let’s decorate (Everyone loves glitter, right?)

Do you support a group who would gain from creating a collaborative art project?

Creating your artwork will be EASY and FUN because we’ll:

  • Use success strategies (so you succeed)
  • Use simple visual resources (Simple ideas to copy or inspire you) and
  • Use clear structure (I mix the colours and do the washing up)

In a collaborative art painting you explore creativity within the safety of a group.

Creating in a group helps with:

  • having no performance pressure
  • building your creative confidence naturally
  • avoiding the sting of comparison anxiety
  • fostering co-creation and cooperation easily
  • feeling personal ownership of the process and final artwork
  • relaxed people skills practice – it’s easier to talk while doing something.

Simply enjoy the thrill of collaborative painting. It’s a unique experience.

🌟 Why people love it

“Charndra went above and beyond to make our experience professional, engaging and fun! She brought a creative flair coupled with an inspiring love for the arts to her facilitation of the artwork creation that was priceless. The artwork results speak for themselves!”  – Sonia Hein, Stakeholder Engagement, Fundraising & Events Officer, Community Living Australia (facilitators of the Myriad Art Exhibition)

Create an art project that your group or team will really enjoy!

Let’s get painting around each other! (It’s FUN!)

Creating a collaborative art project is as easy as 1. 2. 3:

  1. Email me to get started and we’ll plan your Group Art Project together
  2. We’ll gather your group to create the artwork over several sessions, and
  3. Then you all sit back, admiring your unique artwork with great pride!

Collaborative art projects are a lot of fun to do:

  • Teenagers painting a collaborative group art mural in public. 'Find Your Courage', a collaborative art mural created by teenagers with Painting Around is Fun's social art guide, Charndra
    Find new courage by painting together
  • 'Our Soccer Mural', a collaborative art project created by 30 school children with Painting Around is Fun's social art guide, Charndra.
    Everyone paints the whole artwork…
  • 'Safety', a collaborative art project created by teenagers with Painting Around is Fun's social art guide, Charndra
    We all paint together…
  • Teenagers painting a collaborative group art mural in public. 'Find Your Confidence', a collaborative art mural created by teenagers with Painting Around is Fun's social art guide, Charndra
    Build your confidence by painting in public
  • 'Community', a collaborative art project created by 600 people with Painting Around is Fun's social art guide, Charndra
    We are inspired by each other…
  • 'Our Tennis Mural', a collaborative art project created by 30 school children with Painting Around is Fun's social art guide, Charndra.
    Cooperation is natural…
  • 'Companionship', a collaborative art project created by 600 people with Painting Around is Fun's social art guide, Charndra
    All ages, any ability or skill level integrates…
  • 'Our Gym Mural', a collaborative art project created by 30 school children with Painting Around is Fun's social art guide, Charndra.
    Concentration is intrinsic…
  • 'Conversation', a collaborative art project created by 600 people with Painting Around is Fun's social art guide, Charndra
    No comparison anxiety…
  • 'Community', a collaborative art project created by 600 people with Painting Around is Fun's social art guide, Charndra
    All ages, all stages of life love social art!

Over 60 Social Art Projects with 2000+ social painters and counting…

You Are Creative! Everyone is Creative!

Circles are the most inclusive shape. You can paint a circle, an oval, a blob? Of course you can.

We paint circles together and go from there…

As you are creating as a group, there is no performance pressure – everyone works as a team.

It’s like a sporting team – what we create is from the dynamics of the group (everyone enjoys themselves!)

Think of These Collaborative Art Projects As ‘Crowd Sourced’, Unique Creativity…

Create a collaborative, social artwork with me.

(I’ll make it easy and fun.)

Cool coloured inclusive group artwork titled Peer Support, painted by a mixed age and ability group of 16 participants including painters with an intellectual disability.

Social Art Workshops

Create a painting on a 1m × 1m canvas over three sessions. Perfect for connection, team building, skill development, confidence, and shared memories.

Collection of 6 collaborative artworks created at home by a homeschooling family, showcasing all stages.

Social Art Programs

Collaborate on shared canvases across six weekly sessions, with each participant taking home a part of the final artwork. Ideal for companionship, connection, and building community.

High school students painting "Find Your Confidence" collaborative school mural exploring stage, Adelaide

Social Art Group Murals

Design and paint a small-scale mural over five sessions (ceiling height, no ladders required). Great for confidence, teamwork, and the courage to create something BIG in public.

Explore School Mural Projects

Thank you for visiting,

Charndra Pile,

Specialist in Inclusive Social Art Projects

P.S. I look forward to painting with you soon. Painting Around is Fun! – is based in Adelaide, South Australia. I live near Westfield Marion and can travel c30 minutes to locations at the moment. (School pick ups, you understand!)

Look at examples of Pattern Play Collaborative Art Projects in my Blog

Discovered in 76+ countries so far 🌍

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Explore More Collaborative Art Resources →

If you’ve enjoyed reading “Pattern Play Collaborative Artwork: How We Create Group Art Together”, there are plenty of other ways to explore pattern play collaborative artwork on my site which is all about this one topic! These posts offer tips, ideas, and inspiration to help your group paint with confidence and have fun:

Children participating in Pattern Play Collaborative Artwork, painting the "Companionship" mural during the Art Story Artist in Residence program. Inclusive group art project encouraging creativity, confidence, and collaboration.
Students creating the “Companionship” painting using Pattern Play Collaborative Artwork during the Art Story Artist in Residence program.

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