Exploring and using Found Textures
I’ve recently started collecting my own photographic texture images. For no particular reason, since I’m not sure yet what I’m going to do with these, but I find so many of them beautiful for their own sake. Once you start looking, beautiful textures can be found everywhere in the environment. Most people are familiar with [...]
Pin ItCreative Gifts
My kids have finished for a longer than usual half-term because of the Queen’s Jubilee, so once more I am short of time as I devote myself to their needs. So, just a short post this week, to share some more of the latest creative projects produced in our home. One of the things my [...]
Arty Pencils
One of the Christmas gifts I made this year, to go alongside a set of Artwork Jotters, were these artwork covered pencils. I was quite pleased with the result, which looked I thought fairly professional, so thought I would share them with you. If at all possible, these are best created using plain wooden pencils [...]
Pin ItCaring for Your Keepsakes
We all have treasures that we want to keep forever. That curl from baby’s first haircut, or the first tooth to come out, the first painting or a special card your child has made for you. I for one have difficulty throwing stuff away – I am a confirmed hoarder. I find it especially difficult [...]
Icy Artwork
Following on from my summer and autumn posts about Land Art, it seemed appropriate to continue with a post about Winter Land Art. This is the time to create those snow sculptures – to go beyond the usual snowmen, and create snow castles and palaces, snow animals, or even abstract forms. Or how about some [...]
Pin ItMake a World
I recently came across this book while browsing around the web. Apparently, although I’d never come across it before, it’s something of a classic, and was first published in 1972. It is one of a whole series of similar style books by the author Ed Emberley, all with different themes. It seems that this book [...]
What does your Child’s Artwork reveal?
Children’s drawings, doodles and sketches have been the subject of study now for over a hundred years, and new theories and ideas about what they mean, how they develop, and how they can be used both educationally and therapeutically, are arising all the time. This week, I’m going to look at whether children’s drawings, especially [...]
