Paper art and lovely spring blossoms

Here’s another of the activities on the great experimental art e-courseI am doing…making art from paper, anyway you want to. Ripping, sticking and in Isabella’s case, lots of scrunching. She decided to do a picture of a tree in blossom with little balls of scrunched up tissue paper – so beautiful and effective. I love […] Read more...

Mother and daughter doodles

I have just started on Amelia’s Experimental Art E-Course– fun, inspiring exploration of making art using different mediums. Week one. Me and my daughter sit at the table together with pencils, charcoal, felt tips and crayons, our aim is to doodle, to make marks without fear of what will be produced (kids are great at […] Read more...

Isabella’s Land Art

Have you come across Land Art? A few years back, I discovered a book by Andy Goldsworthy and sat for ages enjoying this delicious feast for the eyes. The other day, I was doing the first garden tidy up of the spring and out of the corner of my eye I saw a very industrious […] Read more...

Orange Peel Mosaics

My lovely friend, Freddie, suggested putting citrus fruit peel on top of a radiator to release the zingy smell and the end product, dried peel, gave me the idea for this children’s mosaic method. Smells great while  you are making them too! You will need : Dried citrus peel. We used oranges, clementines, satsumas and […] Read more...