“Mother-daughter pair bond over art” is available here or in the December 2020 issue of Pickerington Magazine.
Read MoreBooks about art and creativity /
Books about art, creativity, and making things.
Pictured are some of my current favorite books about art and creativity, both for adults and kids.
Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon. A new classic, busts popular myths about creativity.
Show Your Work also by Austin Kleon. A great follow up to Steal Like an Artist, offers advice for ways to make creating a habit and share your work.
The Wander Society by Keri Smith (also the creator of Wreck This Journal, another favorite). This book invites you to join the mysterious Wander Society, explore nature, make stuff, and expand your mind.
Hey, Day! by Clea Hantman and Keva Marie. One of my absolute favorite books growing up, it offers a new fun, wacky, or creative activity for every day of the year.
Drawing Your Own Path by John F. Simon Jr. This book combines drawing and meditation to help you create your own more mindful practice.
Art Workshop for Children by Barbara Rucci and Betsy McKenna. Process orientated art activities for kids that are based in good educational theory!
Currently listening to... /
Currently listening to the Moby Dick Big Read, a sort of audiobook version of Moby-Dick created by Peninsula Arts and Plymouth University. I can’t decide whether the best part is the variety of readers’ voices or the links to awesome Moby-Dick related art with each chapter, but it’s very early days yet. Right now, Tilda Swinton is telling me all about the instinctual human desire to go to sea.
http://www.mobydickbigread.com
Making scout patches for...well, work. /
Fun times experimenting with screen print while making girl scout patches at work. I
Reading list /
Things I am currently reading:
Frankenstein Mary Shelley
Education for Socially Engaged Art: A Materials and Techniques Handbook Pablo Helguera
Creative Block Danielle Krysa
Experiments in paper marbling /
Oil and water, apparently not just for salad dressing.
And then I made six more... for reasons.
Experimenting with some quick and dirty paper marbling methods for work. Normally you would blend methylcellulose and water into this really gloopy mix, drop inks into that, and then rinse the excess gloop and ink off of prepared paper, but I wanted to cut down on the number of steps.
The oil and food coloring method was definitely too oily, but on my second attempt, I tried thinning out oil paints with gamsol, and that worked pretty well.
Some of the links I used to start with:
http://billnye.com/billnye_resource/marvelous-marbling/