England.
6x6 acrylic on board
Tuesday, September 15, 2015
Sunday, September 13, 2015
daily painting day thirteen
I forgot to look what this photo is of and am too lazy to walk back down to the studio to look.
6x6 acrylic on board
Saturday, September 12, 2015
daily painting day twelve
The Pacific Ocean off the coast of Ecuador.
I wish the blue had shown through the white a little bit more than it did. Oh well!
6x6 acrylic on board
daily painting day eleven
Yesterday's painting got away from me. I had run a few errands and got completely distracted reorganizing all my sheet music so I didn't make it into the studio to get something, anything finished.
I caught up today and went to Egypt for inspiration in You Are Here by Chris Hadfield.
6x6 acrylic on board
Thursday, September 10, 2015
daily painting day ten
Yay! 1/3 of the challenge is done today. I have been enjoying using a book as inspiration rather than having to come up with a still life each day.
Today is another section of desert in Africa. It seems I like the colours in the Africa section.
6x6 acrylic on board
Wednesday, September 9, 2015
Tuesday, September 8, 2015
Monday, September 7, 2015
daily painting day seven
Clouds over Egypt. Inspired by You Are Here by Chris Hadfield
6x6 acrylic on board
Sunday, September 6, 2015
Saturday, September 5, 2015
daily painting day five
Florida Keys. Inspired by You Are Here by Chris Hadfield
6x6 acrylic on board
Friday, September 4, 2015
Thursday, September 3, 2015
Wednesday, September 2, 2015
daily painting day two
Bahamas inspired today. Didn't turn out exactly as I wanted. Oh well. There's always tomorrow.
Tuesday, September 1, 2015
daily painting day one
I've been busy getting all my planning done for my piano studio as well. I kind of feel like that all I've been doing for weeks. I will be so happy to get back into the swing of teaching every day. I only had my Saturday students continue through the summer so it was definitely not a busy summer. I've got a few new students starting as well as all my familiar faces from the last school year.
September is also the start of another 30 days of daily painting over at
Slices of Life with Leslie Saeta. The last few weeks I've actually been
pretty good at getting into the studio everyday to paint but have been
bad at getting anything posted here. Instagram is SOOOOOO much easier!
I decided this time around instead of scouring the internet for images to paint from, I would use Chris Hadfield's book You Are Here as inspiration for 30 days of abstract painting. I will post a picture from the book as well as the painting it inspired each day.
Here's day one...Africa
6x6 acrylic on board
Saturday, May 23, 2015
sewing
These are Amelia's last two sewing projects.
I found the pattern for this fruit bag here. It is a great pattern because it gives you the choice of a few different types of fruit just by changing the colours of fabric and the seeds you applique onto the bag.
Amelia made this bag today and was it ever a HIT! She had picked the pattern last week and it was supposed to have rope handles. She had forgotten to get rope to use and was a little disappointed when she showed up this morning. Little did she know that the little knitting store down the street from us had put out a big bin of plastic handles with a "FREE" sign last weekend. I scooped 10 pairs so she was able to use them in place of the rope. It was a surprisingly easy bag to make. She sewed everything by herself except doing the casing for the handles which was a little tricky even for me to do.
We are starting a big quilting project next week which will take probably 4 weeks to complete.
gelli printing with a kid
One of Taylor's favourite activities when she comes to my house is Gelli printing. I have 2 plates one is 6x6 and the other is 3x5. For the 6x6 I just give her pieces of newsprint or white paper to use for her prints. With the 3x5, she uses blank index cards that are the same size as the plate.
She uses Princeton Catalyst tools (these are one of my favourite tools to use), recycling I've collected for texture and fluid acrylic paint from the dollar store. I showed her how to use some of the tools when she first started use the plates but now she just experiments with different colours and tools. I usually use whichever plate she isn't so she will often ask me how I did something on my plate and try it out on her own.
These are 4 of her last prints.
fabric dollhouse
Amelia made this fabric dollhouse a few weeks ago and it was a huge hit. We followed the pattern here. It used hard plastic mesh lined with batting inside the fabric. It took one class (2 hours) to assemble plus another little bit for me to hand sew the velcro in place. We spent her next class decorating it with felt.
The back.
Inside.
Complete with curtains, a table (an empty spool of thread) with a bowl of apples (red beads hot glued in place), a rug...
...and a fish pond!
baking soda paint
I tried this recipe for baking soda paint with Taylor. You mix up water, baking soda and food colouring to paint with. Once your creation is down on paper (use water colour paper if available), spray or drip vinegar on the paint to create the fizzing reaction. It was a neat activity but once dry there was a lot of baking soda flaking off the paper which made a bit of an extra mess.
Her colours.
Her two masterpieces.
messy bags (another kid edition)
This is becoming one of my favourite project to do with kids and to do on my own.
I did it again a few weeks ago with Millie. I forgot to take a lot of pictures as she was working but did get the finished product!
Mille painted a large piece of canvas and then turned it into 5 one of a kind pouches. These are the front and back of each.
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