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Happy Accidents – or Catalysts for Creativity
‘By looking attentively at old and smeared walls, or stones and veined marble of various colours, you may fancy that you see in them several compositions, landscapes, battles, figures in quick motion, strange countenances, and dresses, with an infinity of other objects. By these confused lines, the inventive genius is excited to new exertions’. These [...]
Mini-Masterpieces:From the Archives
Amongst all the paintings that children produce as they’re growing up, there will often be a piece of artwork which for whatever reason becomes a favourite for their parents – it may not be a technical triumph, but somehow it captures something of themselves or their subject. So for the second of my Mini-Masterpieces Link-ups, [...]
Inspiration from the Past
Sometimes it’s the old ideas which are the best. Paper frames for the wall are far from being a new idea, but have become quite popular again recently along with decorative stick on ‘decals’ in general. They were especially popular in the 18th century, circa 1750-1800, when ‘print rooms’ were all the rage. Unfortunately, few [...]
Sun Prints
Inspired by Suzanne at SkyBlueSea, I decided to have a go at Sun Prints with the kids. The proper name for these is Cyanotypes, and it is a technique first developed in the early days of photography by Sir John Herschel in 1842. In fact they are the original ‘blue-prints’. They’re really simple to do [...]
Setting up Shop
When I was on Blogger, like lots of others, I had a small Amazon widget to highlight any children’s art books I’d come across which I thought were worth a look, or I would add a product or two that I had featured or reviewed on my site. I have now extended this and added [...]
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