Category Archives: Art

What is Gesso and How to Make Your Own Gesso

Sarah White February 10, 2015 Art / Painting60 Comments

This page includes affiliate links for your convenience. As I have been doing more painting and mixed media type projects, I have found myself delving into art supplies I didn’t know much about before. One of my most-needed supplies right now is a white pasty substance called gesso. Gesso is …

Let Go of Expectations with Make Bad Art

Sarah White January 23, 2015 Art / Creativity Boosts / Painting / Reviews3 Comments

I have often said — in my head at least, if not out loud — that I think creativity is the thing that makes people human. We all have a desire to make things, to use or imaginations, to control our worlds in ways that (at least most) animals can’t. …

Making Art with Mix it Up

Sarah White January 6, 2015 Art / Kid Crafts and Activities / Kids / Painting / Reviews3 Comments

I usually let the girl choose all the books we bring home from the library, but on a recent trip (in which we brought home 17!) I slipped in a couple I thought she would particularly enjoy. One of these was Mix It Up! by Hervé Tullet. Like his previous …

Experimenting with Glitter and Paint

Sarah White December 1, 2014 Art / Kid Crafts and Activities / Kids / Painting0 Comments

I’ve been doing some cleaning in the girl’s art area lately, and one good thing about that is that it means we’re finding things we forgot we had. It was nearly a year ago the last time we played with paint and glitter gel, and the girl found the remains …

Art is Everywhere

Sarah White October 28, 2014 Art / Creativity Boosts / Fayetteville Field Trips / Life2 Comments

Over the weekend I was invited, along with a group of other bloggers, to tour a relatively new exhibit at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. Called State of the Art, it’s a collection of 227 works of art from 102 artists from around the country who were chosen as …

Make an Easy Kid Craft Halloween Centerpiece

Sarah White October 23, 2014 Art / Crafts / Holidays / Kid Crafts and Activities0 Comments

Through the years the girl has made a lot of great Halloween crafts at school. These are actually just a few of them. I love the yarn-wrapped mummy, of course, and the spider is pretty awesome, too (it’s made out of a Laughing Cow cheese container). Then there are all …

Getting Back to Craft

Sarah White September 26, 2014 Art / Crafts / Life3 Comments

While I was working on the book, I was only knitting (and doing some little crafty things with the girl, but nothing too planned). Now that I’ve been done with the book for almost a month, I’m still mostly just knitting. This tells me that I made a savvy career …