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A Peek In My Sketchbook: Learning To Draw Simple Botanicals
I am happy to say that my sketchbook endeavors are consistent, and I am slowly but surely filling up a sketchbook that has been sitting half empty for 20 plus years! I started on May 18th and have now completed 46 pages, phew! Okay the pages aren’t filled with brilliant art, but rather simple botanical sketches and lately some botanical doodles, but I’m really enjoying all the drawing. Because the sketchbook is not heavy paper and I don’t want to end up gluing together pages, I am sticking to light weight pen drawings mostly, though I did recently do a drawing that I colored with a bit of gouche which…
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Learning How To Use An Airbrush
Above: Photos courtesy of airbrushboston.com The world of airbrushing is interesting and exciting, but takes some knowledge and practice. If you want to learn how to use an airbrush, and become familiar with what might be involved, you have come to the right place. My teen daughter has been hand drawing and using a spray bottle to apply paint to her graffiti sweatshirts, so an airbrush is certainly on her list of must haves! (Mom will have to learn more first, so let’s dive into this together, shall we?) Origins of the airbrush gun The first patent for an airbrush gun, the so-called “atomizer”, goes back to Francis Edgar Stanley…
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Summer Camp Crafts: A Graffiti Logo Sweatshirt With Splashes Of Color
I am so grateful that my teen daughter loves crafting, as with no school for months now due to Covid-19, she has had lots of time to delve into creative activities that she loves, the latest being grafitti sweatshirts! Her friends are begging her to make some for them, and while I was just thinking she could do a class, maybe just buying an airbrush and semi-mass producing them would be a better idea? Just to be clear, my daughter isn’t wearing this sweatshirt out and about, but she certainly has fun wearing it as pajamas! The graffit sweatshirt idea all started with a Purim costume which led to a…
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Summer Camp Crafts: A Simple Graffiti Sweatshirt In Black And White
Summer is here, and yet this summer is not like other summers, sigh. Here at CJM central we seem be in the middle of eternal vacation, well sort of, with the future of schooling this year very uncertain. Rather than dwell on that, and whether some of my kids will actually get “summer vacation” when and if school starts, lets get busy making summer camp crafts, as there is something about messy or process oriented or outdoor type crafts that just makes many of us happy, not to mention busy and creative! Speaking of busy, this graffiti sweatshirt project could keep someone busy for hours and hours, and when my…
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Welcome To Craft Schooling Sunday!
Welcome to Craft Schooling Sunday, thanks so much for joining me here! Time is just flying by, and with my three teens still not back in school. Maybe it is because life is just much busier with day to day family obligations! With much of the country back in school there was a significant rise in new Coronoa cases, meaning some schools have shut down again, and my kids will not be returning in the near future. More time to fill them with good healthy food! There are so many projects and ideas that I’d love to delve into but just can’t seem to get there, and I’m not sure…
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Enhancing Your Children’s Creativity Through Connecting To Nature
Above: Pomegranite tree in bloom in Northern Israel on June 4th, 2020 Fostering your children’s creativity is something that starts at home. Online classes and art books can definitely help boost your child’s creativity, but at the end of the day there’s nothing like getting in touch with nature to really get creativity flowing. I can say personally that since I’ve been taking nature walks roughly four times a week my creativity is bursting at the seams, and even though I’ve been taking exactly the same walk over and over there is always so much to see if you just open your eyes to the beauty of nature. With that…
