What Do You Want to Make Today?
Here’s another quick and easy creative project you can do in just a few minutes that is surprisingly a lot of fun for how simple it is. Drip painting is exactly what it sounds like: getting paint on a surface by dripping it on randomly. I decided I wanted to do mine on cardboard, but […]
This week I seem to be back in the spirit of relatively fast projects that don’t require a lot of thinking on your part. Maybe it’s the spring weather or the fact that I’m home from a weekend away and just want to have some fun. It doesn’t really matter, but I do love the […]
Yesterday I said something about trying a crayon and watercolor progress for painting flowers. While I was talking specifically about using the shadow flower technique, it’s fun to play with crayons and watercolors with any kind of drawing. And today was the perfect day to try it out. The girl is home sick, and I […]
Here we are on day four of our slow art project. It does feel really slow, right? But I kind of love this pace. It gives you time to think about what you want to do next, to really build on each step and give it time to decide if its complete or not. The […]
Now it’s time to add more color to our slow art canvas. Because I sometimes combine fast thinking and slow projects, I kind of picked the colors I chose for mine at random. I wanted a neutral — which is brown — and a couple of brighter colors that would look good with the original […]
Yesterday we started a week-long slow art project by painting a canvas. I like that as a first step even if it eventually gets mostly covered up because it takes away the fear of a blank canvas. The next step I did was to add some texture by Mod Podgeing some paper to the canvas. […]
I mentioned yesterday that I have been thinking about slow art and crafts, projects that take a lot of time and are more meditative than those that you can complete quickly. It’s a different way of getting in the flow of things, practice for paying attention and being in the moment. I wanted to try […]