My drawing class, taught by Kathleen Boldt, began last week. We meet once a week for ten weeks. Each class is three hours long and we even get to do homework! The instructor follows Betty Edwards’ Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. I have learned that I’m heavily addicted to using my right [...]
One of my New Year’s resolutions is to incorporate shrink plastic into a piece of art. Before I can do that, I had to figure out how to use the stuff correctly. I tried following the manufacturer’s instruction’s, using an oven with a layer of parchment paper on top of my cut outs, but my [...]
The bird’s the word. Today both kids and I made our own versions of Ann Ellis’ Word Birds which are featured in the latest Cloth Paper Scissors issue. (I got the idea from Jenny Lee’s latest post, see it at texterial.) We had a great time. I didn’t have any colored tissue paper which [...]
I’m inspired to be artsy tonight but I don’t know what I should do…I’ve just learned that the highly recommended drawing class I signed up for is going to run after all with 6 students. I thought for quite a while it would be cancelled due to low enrollment but nope, it starts this Wednesday [...]
Yesterday I friend and I had a morning of craftiness while our daughters were at preschool. We made these great flowers from old T shirts and buttons. She found the project at http://cathiefilian.blogspot.com/2010/11/101-tees-jazz-up-scarf-with-t-shirt.html . They required a glue gun, something I don’t usually use but found that I works great for this project- it really digs [...]
This week has been interesting to say the least. We replaced our upstairs toilet. It was installed when our house was built in 1928. Now it sits crooked in the snow, outside our door, in three pieces…Yep, we’re one of those people now, one of those with a non-functioning toilet sitting outside on our property. [...]
It’s pretty neat when my child’s art inspires me. Max brought home his latest art project the other day, a print made from a carved styrofoam meat tray. I was enthralled. How simple of an idea! My head started spinning, thinking about making prints this way. I always check out the art on the walls [...]
Boy, this is just crazy. I must peel myself away from these darn dolls. The housework is piling up, order is crumbling, chaos encroaches. Good bye dear dear nesting dolls, until another time. I must leave you now to go be my children’s maid. I guess I’m thinking of Halloween because this matryoshka will soon [...]
I’m right into the trendy babushka and/or matryoshka doll image these days. I’m seeing them everywhere and they just keep getting cuter and cuter. I have all sorts of designs swarming in my head of different delicious crafties using that simple image. Here is my latest completed project: Travelling Babushkas- A Take-Along Art Caddy. I [...]
I’m woke up around midnight after about 4 hours of sleep and my head started whirling with all sorts of things that I want to do as well as those things that I must do. I want to make that baby blanket for my brother-in-law and his girlfriend, I want to make that skirt from the [...]
