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rowdy grandma rowdy grandma crafting with the grandkids friday august 6 2010 zentangle fever have you guys heard about zentangle it is a meditative drawing process which can be addicting i recently sent some zentangle books to my grandkids in arkansas they love it in fact two of my granddaughters faith and sarah have become very accomplished in this art they have even begun to add their own tangles to their drawings the friends and teachers they have introduced it to are fascinated as well recently they paid us a visit here in texas and wanted to try some tangles on canvas the results were fabulous both faith and sarah took them home to hang on their bedroom walls they each have quite a collection of their own art pieces hanging in their rooms i am so proud of everything they have created faith was inspired by circle tangles she saw in the book zentangle 2 kids love art materials i always keep some inexpensive canvas in the studio for them to use children feel so much like an artist when they get to put their marks on a canvas next time the grandkids visit surprise them have their own canvas waiting for them to create art to hang in their rooms you can always catch a sale on canvas of all sizes at your local craft store michaels joannes and hobby lobby often have 50 off sarah was inspired by the use of color she loves yellow if you haven t been introduced to zentangle yet you can visit the official zentangle site for more information amazon and design originals sell books on zentangle or just google zentangle there s lots of info on the web posted by unknown at 11 47 am 12 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels canvas childrens art drawing kids art zentangle zentangles friday july 2 2010 opportunities it has been a shameless amount of time since my last post but i do have excuses i always have excuses i should probably go ahead and just call it like it is procrastination however i really dislike calling it procrastination it s not like i am not doing anything i am usually doing too much another problem i have my studio was in transition for a really long time moved from a garage studio to one i had built behind my house which is great it just happened to be during the rainiest time ever here in texas so that took forever therefore not much creating was going on i also decided last november to go back to work design originals is a local book publisher based in fort worth tx they have been publishing fabulous art and craft books for over 25 years i have collected many many of them so this was a dream job surrounded by artists and crafters and the books they contribute to heaven a few months ago an opportunity came up for me to do a book for design originals my own art work concentrates mostly on recycled items i also absolutely love wine and have collected a ton of wine bottles i have used them as borders for my flower beds made bottle trees and created mixed media pieces and jewelry from them the book design originals was putting together just happened to be on bottle art my thing suzanne mcneill owner of design originals and a fabulous artist herself asked me if i was interested in doing the book and i said you betcha it was a wonderful learning experience i am thrilled to have had the chance to do my very own book it is exciting to see it in print on the design originals website and believe it or not on amazon i am an amazon fanatic now my book is on there unbelievable i sometimes just do a search on amazon just to make sure it s real in the book i do photo holders out of wine bottles and was able to place pictures of the grandkids into the photo shoot my rowdies have their pictures in my book my ode to how much they mean to me faith and sarah my granddaughters from arkansas spent some time with me last week of course we were in the studio all the time they wanted to make some projects from the bottle art book they did a great job and i wanted to share some of the pictures with you decoupaged bottle and vase sarah creating paula in a bottle since my studio is now pretty much in order the grandkids and i are back to creating some wonderful things as they have grown their abilities have also grown i have always felt i learned a lot from them while we worked together in the studio i feel that even more now that they are older we brainstorm about some of my upcoming art pieces as well as how they want to work on their own piece of art my goal when they were smaller was to acquaint them with the wonderful world of art materials now that they know more about the possibilities of these materials they are some of my most treasured critics faith and rylan my youngest grandson rylan is soon to be 8 months old it will be great to have a tiny little person in the studio with me again showing him all the wonders of art and craft i have tried putting a crayon in his hand but alas it still goes instantly to the mouth so he is not yet ready but i am ready and waiting posted by unknown at 11 04 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels bottle art bottle art book design originals recycled art recycled bottles thursday october 15 2009 ghouls on a stick ghoul on a stick halloween is just around the corner one of my favorite holidays the rowdies and i have a lot of fun with halloween projects one of our favorites is monsters ghouls and skeletons on a stick this is similar to the project i posted on january 24th 2009 the paintbrush characters we used paperclay as we did for that project but this time we molded it around a styrofoam ball you can use really small round styrofoam or the really large ones you can put all kinds of bumps and bulges on it to make it a scary monster we put a screw in this ghoul s head he s got a screw loose after the clay dries paint them with acrylic paints and apply a sealer of some kind the stick can be anything from a skewer to a popscicle stick we also painted our stick the sticks we used for ghouls on a stick are lollipop sticks my favorites they make the ghouls look like lollipops have fun posted by unknown at 5 07 pm 5 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels ghouls halloween lollipops thursday october 8 2009 art tip lauryn s art i keep a whole section of art materials just for the rowdies to use when they come to visit kids do love to paint and draw but almost all of my grandkids have experienced artist s block they are all set to paint and they ask me what they should paint i suggest things like bunny rabbits kitty cats or merry go rounds their reaction is i can t paint that or i don t know how you do it for me to encourage them to explore with their art i tell them i would like to see how they paint a bunny rabbit maybe by watching them i can learn something about bunny rabbit painting things i would never have done like pink and purple polka dots and squiggles for a tail so instead of me sitting down drawing a bunny and them copying me we sit down and let the grandchild draw and i do my best fo copy theirs it is a good experience for both of us funny thing i almost always like their bunny best posted by unknown at 11 50 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels art drawing explore grandkids saturday september 19 2009 when life hands you lemons rowdy grandma has been a little self absorbed over the last few months shortly after my last post in july i was diagnosed with severe copd it was surreal i have always been so healthy and active and very experimental in my art work one of the biggest disappointments with this diagnosis is what it means for my approach to art i decided it was best to take a few months off and regroup a little most everything i do in the studio involves harmful mate rials i burn a lot of my assemblage and collage work i use chemicals to patinate metals aerosal sprays to preserve my pieces resins oil paints turpentine and paint remover they are all harmful to the respiratory system so guys let me caution you when you use questionable materials either in your own work or the art you do with the grandkids always use a mask and adequate ventilation it matters taylor with mask and gloves he s ready to create oh and of course cool protective eye wear there are so many fabulous art materials to work with i am now taking classes in drawing and watercolor although i may never be able to completely substitute fire for water i have found a wonderful local teacher and hope this is an opportunity to turn lemons into lemonade and expand on the art i produce i have completed some new works for local art shows and have not stopped working with the grandkids on their own art i look forward to sharing lots of interesting ideas and kid projects with you over the next few months here is a cool idea for displaying the rowdies art if you are like me the front of your refrigerator is jam packed with art one day i was looking for wall space to hang more kid s art couldn t find any so i started tacking it to the ceiling of my studio the kid s absolutely love it if you don t have a studio ceiling a hall ceiling is a great place for it too or try a spare bedroom especially if it s the one the rowdies sleep in when they stay the night they will love drifting off to sleep while staring at their own little masterpieces posted by unknown at 5 36 pm 6 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels art copd mask toxic ventilation monday july 20 2009 so many stuffed animals so little time sarah my 11 year old granddaughter from arkansas spent a week with me recently she adores doing arts and crafts as much as i do maybe even more sarah with her new collection of creatures everyday we did some kind of project i taught her to use my sewing machine and together we created a menagerie of cool stuffed creatures sarah concentrating on her stitching all it really requires is a whole bunch of stuffing material plenty of old clothes to cut up and a few socks sarah made up a lot of her creatures by drawing them on the material with chalk chalked mermaid she also looked through one of my favorite books on stuffed animals plush o rama by linda kopp and based some of her creature designs on those she liked from linda s book that same week favecrafts asked me to submit a craft to their website this gave me the idea to interview sarah as a guest blogger and find out how she feels about creativity stuffing a creature here s what she had to say rg what are your favorite colors sarah green blue and purple rg do you have a favorite art project sarah probably stuffed animals because i got to learn to use a sewing machine rg what is your favorite part of being in the art studio sarah so many possibilities of what you can do looking around at everything rg what inspires you sarah pictures in magazines for drawing for stuffed animals just seeing them all in my room rg what do you think is the most exciting part of a new project sarah watching it all unfold and come together rg which stuffed animal is your favorite and how did you come up with the name sarah my favorites are polly and molly i picked polly because it s a fun name and reminds me of pink i picked molly because it rhymes with polly sarah polly and molly thank you sarah we had a great time crafting click over to favecrafts website to see my latest project called bling bouquet posted by unknown at 1 12 pm 6 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels grandkids sewing socks stuffed animals tuesday june 23 2009 trip to maine the coast of maine is beautiful i just returned from lubec maine the easternmost point in the united states i have a good friend who owns a cabin there it sits across from the lubec channel and is very close to the very picturesque quoddy lighthouse dylan and taylor in front of quoddy lighthouse it was a real treat to get away from the near 100 degree weather we are having in texas i took a couple of the grandkids with me ask me about road trips with grandkids rusty not admiring the beautiful view of the porcupine islands as he stands on cadillac mountain in the arcadia national park but yearning to play the golf course he can see from the mountain he played it the next day my husband rusty and i survived and so did the kids we had a really good time seeing another part of the country taylor standing on the roots of this wonderful old tree on sand beach in arcadia national park my next trip is to arkansas for rusty s family reunion and a visit with the grandkids in arkansas hoping to get back to art making in july my how time flies my idea of heaven posted by unknown at 4 18 pm 5 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels arcadia lighthouse maine quoddy older posts home subscribe to posts atom about me unknown view my complete profile paintbrush characters kid s 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