What You Need:quality watercolor paper, water based paints, brush, and bubble wrap. Cover your paper with the paint. I used burgundy wine. Press bubble wrap onto the wet paper. Press to dry with the bubble wrap still on. When the paper is dry, remove the bubble wrap and wa-la! textured paper! Try this with crumpled […]
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Techniques For Hemming & Finishing Knit Clothing
Hemming: To do a simple hem: fold the fabric up 1 inch, and then fold the raw edge under about 1/4 inch. To keep the fabric from stretching, I put a strip of tracing paper or tissue paper under the fabric as I sew it. Then I just rip it off when finished! Any little […]
Printmaking Tutorial: Collagraphs, from Planning to Printing in One Session; project for K and up!
This was a lesson from my printmaking class that I recently gave. Collagraphy is an interesting way of making prints, so I really wanted to include it in the class. You generally use found objects- like the mesh that comes on your bags of onions, spaghetti noodles, or scrap fabric- which are then glued down […]
How To Teach A Baby To Paint
A lot of art projects at our house end up being more like pretty science experiments. Really really messy, pretty science experiments. Which is fine with me, I don’t mind a mess. I’d rather the kids have lots of fun and maybe even learn something (like how colors mix together… in their hand). Mr.Man is […]
The Cinco De Mayo First Birthday Party
Mr. Man’s Birthday very conveniently falls on Cinco de Mayo- not a holiday that we generally celebrate, but what with it being on a Saturday this year and him not caring about the party, we decided it seemed like the perfect theme for his party. I went a little crazy though. I think it was […]