Crayon on Paper (during Mass)
Saturday, August 1, 2009
Friday, May 8, 2009
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Don't Throw it Away -- Create Something Amazing!
That is the name of this wonderful new book that I just bought for Holland. It is a book that has tons of ideas on how to turn trash into treasure - art treasure! Holland loves to hoard things, and she loves to make art so this is a perfect idea book for her. My only real concern is that we may never throw anything away ever again. Here is a picture of the book cover, and what will follows will be Holland's first couple of projects....
"A Doggie Videogame"
"Rainbow Frame"
"A Doggie Videogame" (the dog is trying to go over the cactus without getting poked)
Materials? cardboard box, markers, doggie picture and icecream stick
"Rainbow Frame" Materials: old frame, lots of odds and ends
Monday, April 6, 2009
An Elephant & A Free bird
"Em, the Elephant With Heart Crown"
Materials: paper, magic markers
"A Woman with a Bird Escaping From it's Cage"
Materials: paper, magic marker
Monday, March 30, 2009
Three Poppies, A Blind Girl, and a Paper Puppet
"Three Poppies"
Medium: Watercolor
"A Blind Girl with a Cane and a Vacuum Cleaner"
Materials: ball point pen & an active imagination
"A Paperbag Puppet With Flower in Hair"
Supplies: paperbag, pencil, staples, and a real flower
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Sunday, March 8, 2009
Friday, February 27, 2009
Daddy and Boden
Holland has been learning about portraiture at school this last week, mainly self portraits, but she is experimenting with all types. This is a drawing of her daddy walking the dog. It's pretty incredible to see the details - she gave Jonathan nostrils, teeth, his green eyes, and even a striped shirt!
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
A Swan, Favorite Foods, & a Self Portrait
" A Swan with a Long Neck"
"My Favorite Foods"
(pizza, ice cream, watermelon)
Supplies: construction paper, markers, tape, glue
"Self Portrait"
Sunday, January 25, 2009
"Spotty and His House"
"Spotty and His House" Materials used: tea box, piece of cardboard, whip cream top,
paint, markers, construction paper
Idea came from Family Fun Magazine
Here it is again incorporated into a one of Holland's "stories" -
LOVE THAT!
Thursday, January 22, 2009
A Butterfly, Cinderella, & A Family Portrait
"Butterfly" 
"Cinderella in Her Carriage"
"Our Family Around a Weeping Willow"
(trying to get away from a monster!)
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
More Drawings & a Playdough Snowman
"Egnes Pinecone the Dragon" 
"Mommy and Daddy on a Ferry on Their Wedding Day" 
"Snowman"
Supplies: extra salty playdough, beads,
toothpicks, and a piece of yarn
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Mommy's Birthday Present
"A New Camera for Mommy"
Supplies: Sculpting Clay, Heart Shaped Brads, and Silver Beads
Friday, January 9, 2009
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
The Castle that Holland Built
I found this cardboardy- type-packaging stuff in one of my Christmas gifts, and I immediately thought about Holland and how much fun she could have creating something with it. One of my hopes for her new art studio is that we are constantly filling it with stuff that we can recycle into wonderful pieces of art. She is so incredibly creative that she often sees "gems" in what I would see as trash. She will frequently see shapes and designs in things and comment about them. This was the perfect shape and design for her to create none other than a castle, and she used the other piece as a garden, and she even used a third piece as a lake or a river (not photographed). When she called me down to the studio to look at it for the first time, she had even gone as far as to create a clay turtle that was in the water piece. I missed getting a picture of it though, and it has long ago been turned into some other creative idea!
LOVE her ideas! So very cool!
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