Saturday, 01 Jul 2017
Summer Crafts: Beaded Wind Chime
Raid our bead stash and put together 5 strands ending each with a small bell. Attach them to a piece of driftwood and add an ornament to your garden or patio, or display it as a decorative mobile inside your space.
Friday, 07 Jul 2017
Paint Your Own Pottery: Dots, Stripes & Patterns
Repetition of dots, stripes and shapes are an easy way to decorate pottery. The resulting patterns make even the least-confident painter look like a PYOP pro.
Friday, 14 Jul 2017
Paint Your Own Pottery: Artist Series: Kandinsky Circles
Wassily's famous color studies from the early 1900's show how our perceptions change when color value, saturation and warm/cool combinations interact. Paint concentric circles using a mix of hues a la Kandinsky.
Wednesday, 19 Jul 2017
Harry Potter Wands
Create your own instrument to channel your magical powers!
Friday, 21 Jul 2017
Paint Your Own Pottery Artist Series: O'Keeffe's "Ladder to the Moon"
While she's best known for paintings of enlarged flowers, O'Keeffe's 1950s painting, Ladder to the Moon, is another well-loved gem interpreting the ideas of passage and transition.
Friday, 28 Jul 2017
Paint Your Own Pottery: Artist Series: Van Gogh Night Sky
Create a swirly, starry sky using blues and golds like the original, or come up with your own color combinations. Using a series of small strokes, imitate Vincent's distinct style of color layering from his late 1800's post-impressionist work. The Starry Night was painted just one year after Van Gogh cut off his left ear, and one year before his untimely death.