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...
Perot Family Land Art Part 2
‘We will make a Family Picture’ declared our beautiful artist child. And so we did. By now, the sea will have taken it away. Happily, we have camera’s to capture our moments (aren’t we lucky?). Read more...
Being a mother and artist- passing it on
A brief hello to you all from our south coast holiday where we are reveling in the arrival of spring – blue skies, 16 degrees celcius and the smell, sound and touch of the seaside to revive me. Happy, happy. Today, on the beach, Isabella declared that we will make a Family Picture in the […] 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...
Spring rubbing pictures
I bought some cheap plastic organisers from the pound shop the other day but they did not serve my purpose of getting more admin efficiency going as I could not get enough papers in each one. Then I noticed that the butterfly and floral pattern on each cover was actually raised. Rather absentmindedly, I got […] Read more...
Our budding photographer
The other day I took a little leap of trust and placed my precious camera in the hands of my insistent 4 year old – strap carefully round her neck and firm instructions not to touch the lens. I took a deep breath and turned away (pretending not to supervise), leaving an excited Isabella […] Read more...
The rough and the smooth
It’s bug city round here. Our home must have been put on the bug hotel map cos them little viruses just keep on coming. I have tried not to whinge on here about the amount of bugs we are getting but seeing as, right now, I am in bed instead of in my studio, I […] 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...
A giant flower tutorial to hurry spring along!
Over the Christmas period, a shelf in our house was given over to a nativity scene (you can see it here). Once Christmas was over, the empty shelf sat there for a few weeks, looking miserable. One day I thoughtlessly placed a couple of objects there (they were floating without a home – do you […] Read more...