In just a few days I will be traveling to Haiti with Project HOPE Art , an amazing group of women I met and joined up with earlier this year...
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Popsicle Stick Signage
I’ve been experimenting with craft sticks and found they are pretty easy to cut with scissors and glue together to make your own signage. ...
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Beans in a CD Case Experiment Begins
A friend suggested this idea of growing beans in a CD case, and I loved it immediately! Think of it as the world’s skinniest terrarium. My e...
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“Stained Glass” Bowl
Kids these days are so lucky to have such cool new art materials coming out all the time. I recently found something called “Scratch Art-Cle...
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My New Tech Find – Pinterest
If you are like me, you are often finding photos of art ideas on the internet which you would like to put on your future “to do” list. So yo...
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Fish Tessellation
A tessellation is a collection of shapes that fill a paper with no overlaps and no gaps. I like the combination of math and artistic skills ...
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Tinted Self-Portrait
Pablo Picasso's Blue Period, in which he painted only blue paintings of sad subject matter, is a good example of how an artist used colo...
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Starry Night Mural
“I wanted to show you the finished product of our wall mural in our school lunchroom. I ordered the templates from you, then we projected...
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Flower Girls from Macedonia
These beautiful photos come from Lila Arsova in Macedonia, who has shared some of her creative ideas with me in the past. She wrote that the...
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Goodbye To My Little Artist Friends in Haiti
Yesterday was Project HOPE Art's last day with the kids we'd been with all week, and so it was time to hang their art, share a meal ...
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Overlapping Rings
This can be a great exercise for drawing overlapping shapes. Use new rolls of masking tape for tracing – they are easy to hold and grip the ...
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Making Rainbows with Nadine's Kids
Today was the last day to play and make art with Nadine's kids from the orphanage down the street. After yoga with Mimi, Jenni and I sho...
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Paper Mache House
I was inspired by artist Maize Hutton to make paper mache houses that could actually double as storage for toys, etc. All you need is some c...
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Portrait Art from Australia
This beautiful canvas art comes from Jan who teaches at a small country school in South Australia . This project was made as a farewell gi...
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Painting Poissons with Nadine's Kids
Today our group was back with some of our favorite kids we've met so far, those at Nadine's Orphanage in Port-au-Prince. The amazing...
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Woven Cup Holder Tutorial
I experimented with an idea from my “Crafts for Kids” magazine, and came up with this recycled magazine cup holder. It’s created by weavi...
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Art at Parc Binochat
Parc Binochat is a school in Jacmel that is close to one of the roughest tent cities around. Yesterday we worked with many amazing volunteer...
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Help Spread the Message of Hope for Japan
In response to the March 11th earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan, HoriPro Entertainment Group songwriters Matt Palmer and Pascal Guyon...
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William Wegman Trading Cards
William Wegman is a contemporary artist that has illustrated many children’s books and been a part of many videos on "Sesame Street...
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Art at Bassin Blue
Yesterday our group went up into the mountains of Jacmel, and worked with about 50 young kids that are part of a church run by Father Baba, ...
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Photo Texture Collage
Magazines with big glossy photos are best for this project. Landscape, travel and food magazines will generally get you the largest and pret...
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Watercolor Painting at Angel Ministries
Today I traveled with Project Hope Art to Angel Ministries in Jacmel, as we had recently met the founder and were invited to work with 50 of...
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Textured Watercolor Painting
One of my favorite art books, The Usborne Book of Art Skills by Fiona Watt, has some really amazing watercolor projects, including this one...
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A Day in Jacmel
Tropical storm Emily delayed our plans by a day, but this morning we were off to visit Creation Foundation, a school that cares for 90 kids ...
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Getting around in Haiti
I love these colorful "Tap Taps" that are one of the main forms of transportation in Haiti. Know why they're named that? Becau...
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Traveling from Port-au-Prince to Jacmel
Traveling from Port-au-Prince to the northern city of Jacmel is no small feat. It took about four hours of winding up and down the most hair...
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Kid’s Flag Art from San Diego
I adore this flag that comes from Janet, a volunteer art teacher at STEPS (San Diego Center for Children) school. I understand that 10 boys ...
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When Life Gives You Lemons, Make Art
Today was a traveling day as we needed to visit a couple of different places that Hope Art connected with during their last trip to Haiti. O...
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Art Journal Fireworks Drawing
This is an exercise in radial drawing, but it makes a nice fireworks image when you fill up the page. It would look great on black paper too...
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Weaving Art with Haiti kids
Today our HOPE Art team went back to Nadine's Orphanage, down the street from our hotel. We got permission to work with the kids in our ...
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Art Trading Cards
Art Trading Cards, also known as ATC's, have been popping up everywhere as a means to create small-scale art that can easily be collecte...
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