Print Making and Dragon Painting

Allyssa is painting an airplane and sun on mylar, using watercolor paints, to print on wet paper.









This child is glazing his dragon, trusting that the colors he chose will fire close to what he is expecting. They look nothing like the teacher told him they will! I can't wait to see what it looks like fired!

Printing with Kids

Amelia and her mom really got the idea! We worked on blocking out the parts of the image where children didn't want the background color to print, and to print in more than one color. We are working on thin sheets of styrofoam, with the lines incised with a ball point pen. Amelia blocked out the grass, the clouds,  and the sun with paper cut to those shapes, then rolled yellow on the sun shaped paper and green on the grass shaped paper. She then pressed the paper shapes onto the print where she wanted those colors.


Laura didn't finish hers yet; she made her sun yellow. Next time she plans to make her horse green.

Ethan used tire tracks from a toy truck to make the boarder around his name. 

ETSY SHOP GRAND OPENING

hand painted silk scarf, "Hollyhock Summer"

I'm celebrating opening my Etsy Shop by offering a 20% discount on all sales through September 25th! I have hand painted silk scarves, prints of my silk paintings and watercolors, and a few cards. Pop on over and see what I've got!

The scarf shown here was inspired by Anita Halstead's garden with Hollyhock bushes 6 or 7 feet tall. I  want to plant some in my garden next summer, to see if they keep the deer from jumping my fence and feasting on all my vegetables!