The second assignment from misses 3-year-old was drawing a house. We found some cheap highlighters in the supermarket. Ellen thinks they are the bees knees, so persuading her to do what her younger sister wanted wasn’t to hard. If you look carefully at the 3-year-old drawing there are 2 houses (yellow one with circle windows and … Continue reading
Miss 3-year-old is really starting to get into sketchbooking. On her request we had to draw rainbows with pencils.
I try to give my daughters the opportunity to experience all kinds of different techniques to make a picture. I thought tearing beautiful coloured tissue paper would inspire the girls. Showing that when you overlap them you create another colour and that with odd shapes you can still make a picture. I didn’t expect a … Continue reading
Sketchbooking was all about x marks the spot. Ellen has been asking about pirate day and her younger sister wants to draw maps all the time. Our assignment a treasure map with an x for the treasure. I get out a big box of pencils in all the different colours of the rainbow and of … Continue reading
It is high time for a bit of Sketchbooking. I love working on our sketchbook project. Together with my daughters, I explore different techniques and ideas. It is so much fun to see them develop. We did an easy one, drew the same amount of circles on one page for all of us and we … Continue reading
It is amazing what you can be inspired by. Just a quick image on Instagram of a landscape with some people drawn in it gave me the idea for this sketchbook project. I cut out several landscapes out of magazines and let the girls choose which landscape they wanted. Then I explained what I would … Continue reading
School has started and with school come all kinds of pretty protective sticky back plastics on the shelfs of shops. After school has started most shops want to get rid of their stock and so I happened upon some cheap shiny and fluor coloured stick back plastics I thought Ellen would love. And I was … Continue reading
Normally I publish our Sketchbooking efforts on Thursdays, but tomorrow I want to tell you about a special project Ellen has initiated. I am praying the weather works with us. So today the results of sketchbooking. These are inspired by one of the mentors on the #ThrivingArtist summit Lisa Congdon. While listening to her I was browsing … Continue reading
Sketchbooking is back or at least we are going to continue our efforts in 2015. Starting of with cutting shapes and colouring around them with pencil. All I wanted from my girls was a bit of a pattern. Ellen managed to make a lion and ice-cream. Her little sister found it hard to hold on … Continue reading
First day 4 from our advent decoration calendar. We made a triangular shape from green acetate and got to decorate it with paper punch shapes. Simple and effective for the Christmas tree or in front of the window. Ellen also used a popsicle stick for the tree trunk. As for Sketchbooking, after last times dubious … Continue reading
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