Discover the joy of creating your own unique prints with potatoes! All the tools and materials you need to get started with potato printing.
Have you been dreaming of black windows in your own home? What if I told you that you can have your black windows (interior and/or exterior) at the cost of a can of paint. Here's how we painted the windows in our home black and we LOVE THEM!
Create your own bubble painting with acrylics on a black canvas. This step by step acrylic tutorial is great for beginners and has pictures and video!
Wondering how to learn Waldorf art? The crayon drawings, the watercolor paintings, and oh, those colorful chalkboard drawings! Waldorf Art for Beginners.
Cheers to the art of mapmaking! Over the Summer I took an e-course offered by Patty at Deep Space Sparkle. It was super informative (as I was a new teacher in a new school and state) and her husband put together a Flickr group for us to share our progress. Among the activities and lessons discussed, I got the great idea to create her Treasure Maps with my 5th Grade artists this year. My students loved x3 this project! Below are two of my sample maps, one before adding colored pencil and watercolor paints and one upon completion. Maybe next year I should incorporate more cross-curriculars into the project (ex. longitude and latitude)? Check out Patty's DSS site if you haven't already ventured that way!
This post is sponsored by Retique It. All opinions are my own.My oh my I never thought I would be using a product like this! From chalk paint to milk paint to w…
Oh my gosh, this tutorial for How To Make A Neon Sign Painting has us so excited! These DIY neon signs will go great next to the lava lamp.
This shop has been compensated by Inmar Intelligence and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #MaskandPeelPaintPrep Oh my goodness, have I been dying to get to these wood windows in our…
I know many of you are on Spring break this week and I hope you’re enjoying some time resting and relaxing! Our spring life cycle study continues and over the next few weeks we’ll be raising butterflies, learning about the life cycle of frogs and writing poetry! These little guys sure eat a lot and […]
This project Is from the new The Handmade Charlotte Playbook by Rachel Faucett!
The week before last I went to Gwen Marston's Beaver Island Quilt Retreat (week 5). Each year Gwen generously shares her skills over a five week period, each week working with about 30 quilters, many of whom return yearly for their "Gwen fix". This year the topic was small studies. It focused on practicing techniques for make various elements and subsequently using those elements to design small quilts, or sketches as Gwen called them. Gwen recently published a lovely book, 37 Sketches, showing her small quilts and the thought process behind their creation. During the retreat, we played with color and sewed skinny curves, spikes, free pieced log cabins, overlapping curved strata, inserts of tiny specks of color, checkerboards etc. We learned not to be afraid of using little pieces of fabric and to let ourselves experiment with abstract designs. We explored colors we don't often use in quilt making. We were challenged to think out of the box. I had a wonderful time exploring and trying new things. I made the following small quilts: Color Study: Blue and Green Color Study: Brown Trees and the shore - made with spikes I made one more piece, but it isn't quite finished, so I'll save it for another day Liberated quilts have always been favorites of mine and Gwen, through her many books, and now through the retreats has been very influential. Thank you, Gwen. Happy quilting, Kathy
It’s a miracle! WE PICKED A COLOR WE LOVE YOU GUYS!!!!
TRIANGLES stitch knitting pattern. Skill level: beginner: only Knits and purls. Written and charted instructions. Oh La Lana!
