The art challenge for week 22 in the Documented Life Project was “textured paper”. To start, I brushed watered down school glue onto my page and laid a sheet of randomly scrunched up tissue paper on top of the glue. I pressed … Continue reading
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Mom had the great idea to transform some candles for Thanksgiving. You can see them here. Of course, now that it’s Christmas time, we had to do some more candles for Christmas! We have so many extra candles leftover from … Continue reading
This year, instead of buying Christmas cards, how about making them. We have made our own stamps in the past and had considered making some for cards but, this time, decided to try something new. We made our own stencil. … Continue reading
Now that Thanksgiving is over, more and more people have started decorating their houses for Christmas. We shared in an earlier post that my family decorates for Christmas on Halloween. So we have had decorations at my house for a … Continue reading
Today I was playing around with some watercolor techniques described in the book The Watercolorist’s Essential Notebook: Landscapes by Gordon MacKensie.I saw an exercise that looked like it would be really simple to do– negative painting. Negative painting (or drawing) … Continue reading