With a stack of colorful marbled papers from the last post, my young artists were ready to make autumn leaves. Using a simple cardboard stencil we cut out colorful leaves from our papers. I gave them each a large piece of white cardboard and told them to make a background […]
Autumn Art
Easy Paper Marbling for Kid’s Fall Foliage Projects
Maybe it’s because of the drought. Or maybe it’s because we didn’t fertilize last spring. Whatever the reason, the trees around our house still haven’t started turning colors yet and it’s almost Thanksgiving! I decided to let my young artist create some fall colors of her own to use in […]
Whoo Loves Candy Corn?
I love this picture! My daughter surprised me by drawing this picture for me, featuring two of my favorite fall things: owls and candy corn. She always inspires me! I grabbed my sketch pad and tried to come up with some compositions of my own with owls munching on some […]
Candy Corn Art
Somethin’ strange is going on with my blog! I’ve been searching for some of my previous fall posts and I can’t find them. It’s like they’ve disappeared! As you can imagine this has me a little frazzled. My husband decided that the safest route would be to switch over to […]
Candy Corn Queen 2011
She started out as a sketch on tracing paper, just like last year. I decided on an Elizabethan style queen and initially sketched out a castle along with her….but I changed my mind on the castle later on. After the basic sketch was done, I made a copy of it, […]
Chalk Board Tablecloth and Chalk Ink Markers
What do you get when you take one chalkboard tablecloth and some Chalk Ink Markers? A really cool way to decorate your craft table for Autumn! We often work on arts and crafts projects together at this little table. My young artist claims the larger half. Welcome Fall! (I bought […]
Moonlight Maiden
I used Derwent Colour Soft pencils and ZIG Millenium pens to draw this maiden in the moonlight. I’m not a big fan of the scary stuff this time of year. In fact, the only witch I’ve ever been fond of is this one. But I do like to draw and […]
Singing Owls
These card designs are all hand-cut using some of the super-awesome paper in the KC Company’s Que Sera Sera pack. The changing seasons always put me in the mood for cutesy things like this. These owls are enjoying the moonrise from their respective tree tops and singing sweetly in […]