Mini-Masterpieces – December Link-up
Christmas is coming, and it’s time for December’s Mini-Masterpieces link-up. I’m sure many of you have already been getting into the Christmas spirit with lots of seasonal creative projects already, so don’t be shy – link-them up and inspire us all! I’ll be sharing some of our projects over the next week or two – [...]
Mini-Masterpieces – November
Thanks to everyone who contributed to last month’s Mini- Masterpieces Link-up. There was a good selection of artwork and projects, including some wonderful robot artwork from Mermaids Creations, to a Halloween appropriate Spider resist artwork from Our Creative Day. This month I am featuring my younger son’s own Halloween artwork. This is a Halloween scene [...]
Mini-Masterpieces – October Link-up
This time I’m taking no risks – September’s Mini-Masterpieces got absolutely no contributions – a first since I started it back in February. I think this is partly because I added the link-up onto another post so that lots of people missed it, and partly because having had the enforced blogging break which made me [...]
Unfinished Mini-Masterpieces
It’s time for July’s Mini-Masterpieces Link-up already. At present we have lots of half-finished art projects strewn around the house that my boys have started, (not to mention mine of course !) These are all pieces that they have initiated and started work on themselves with no input from me. So we currently have: [...]
Happy Accidents – or Catalysts for Creativity
‘By looking attentively at old and smeared walls, or stones and veined marble of various colours, you may fancy that you see in them several compositions, landscapes, battles, figures in quick motion, strange countenances, and dresses, with an infinity of other objects. By these confused lines, the inventive genius is excited to new exertions’. These [...]
Mini-Masterpieces:’Life’s a Beach’
It’s the 1st June already, and time for the Mini-Masterpieces Link-up again. The link-up will now appear on the 1st day of every month (this makes it much easier to remember) and will be left open for people to contribute to until the next one goes live, so that there’s plenty of time to take [...]
Mini-Masterpieces: It’s the Thought that Counts
The mini-masterpieces that you receive as gifts from your kids somehow seem particularly memorable. With small children especially, it doesn’t really matter what the artwork looks like, it represents a true personal gift from your child to you, unlike those gifts ‘from’ small children that are purchased for you on their behalf. The collection above [...]
Mini-Masterpieces:From the Archives
Amongst all the paintings that children produce as they’re growing up, there will often be a piece of artwork which for whatever reason becomes a favourite for their parents – it may not be a technical triumph, but somehow it captures something of themselves or their subject. So for the second of my Mini-Masterpieces Link-ups, [...]
Artful Discoveries – Children’s Art Tote
Following on in my occasional series of ‘Artful Discoveries‘, I came across this tutorial at H is for Handmade, for a Children’s Art Tote and I thought it was a great project to make for a child if you’re handy with a sewing machine. It’s a step beyond the basic pencil or crayon roll, much [...]
Final Featured Artist
So here at last is my final Featured Artist post. Over the last 12 months I’ve enjoyed perusing the wide variety of artwork that has been uploaded to the Artful Kids Flickr Group, and choosing which artist to feature. I’ve tended to choose artworks which seem to have most input from the child themselves, and [...]
