First of all, welcome to all of our new readers who are joining us because you read my guest blog post on Julie Fei-Fan Balzer’s blog, Balzer Designs. I shared a technique using polymer clay, alcohol ink, and her stencils … Continue reading
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Two special little girls in my life just celebrated their first birthday. I wanted to get them started on their creative journey by giving them their first art supplies and decided they needed art smocks. I cut off the lower … Continue reading
The art challenge for week 37 of the Documented Life Project was to: “Use white pen prominently on your page.” Jan: A few weeks ago my husband discovered a new vine with amazing flowers growing on our property. Neither of … Continue reading
If you are looking for a place for free art lessons, Derwent Academy offers 6 video online lessons. You just watch the video, complete the assignment, take a photo, or scan your project and upload the picture to Derwent. They … Continue reading
The Documented Life Project challenge for week 36 was simply: “Black and white.” Jan: When I did this post on using leaves for gelli printing, I played around with using just black and white paint. I really liked how some … Continue reading
Last week Melinda and I opened up our creative play time to some other ladies who were longing to do something creative. We first read through our Declaration of Creativity to get in the right mindset for creating. Our activity … Continue reading
Paul Smith was a typewriter artist. He had severe spastic cerebral palsy and a creative mind. Watch these two videos and be inspired by an amazing man who chose not to be held back by his limitations. … Continue reading
The art challenge in week 35 of the Documented Life Project was to: “Draw, sketch, paint, doodle a face or cut and alter one from a book or magazine.” Jan: In spite of my desire to keep drawing faces regularly … Continue reading
Week 34 of the Documented Life Project’s art challenge was: “Fill the page with numbers that relate to your week (4 trips to the grocery store etc.)” Jan: This challenge was not inspiring me with ideas. So I just sat … Continue reading
The art challenge for week 33 for the Documented Life Project was to use your “under paper” in a creative way. Under paper refers to the paper you have under your art projects that get the extra paint, spills, splatters, … Continue reading