When Spring approaches and the last snow for the season seems to have passed, we take down our paper snowflakes and turn them into Easter eggs. It is always sad to see our pretty wintry snowflakes go, but the positive thoughts of spring quickly come to mind and we know Spring brings so much beauty […]
I was carried away in a gust of inspiration on Thursday last week, and this was the outcome: a shadow puppet theatre box! What fun right? This idea must have been bubbling in my subconscious from the frequent vision of the rainbow silk silhouettes that I mentioned in my last post. I rose Thursday morning, […]
With a cozy snowed in weekend, we enjoyed being tucked away indoors occupied with wintry activities. Maya started early with a snow inspired puppet show. I love to see her setting up a puppet show, and always offer my help so her ideas flourish. The main character of this puppet show was a fox that […]
I started an exciting Art project with Maya’s class today that I will work on with them throughout the rest of the Kindergarten year. A few weeks ago I had the idea that I wanted to paint a tree on the classroom window, and then make seasonal items with the Children to decorate the tree. […]
On Sunday last week the Girls and I had a fun afternoon of printing mushrooms. We looked through some of the mushroom photographs we have taken the past few months, and then I did some drawings based on them. I then re drew them onto the printing block, carving them out, into 3 stamps. We […]
I mentioned that during Hurricane Irene the Girls and I worked on some cardboard mushrooms – and they turned out so cute I just have to share them! Each one unique – just like the real mushrooms we have seen on our walks in the woods. We have enjoyed spotting mushrooms very much and I […]
Ok, there are HEAPS of good things about our new home, but one of the best has to be our Attic. I really need to do a blog about the whole attic, the space in its entirety, but for now I want to share with you one of our new favorite things, and that is […]
We have been a little slow making and sending out our Easter thank you cards for the lovely gifts the Girls received, and so while we were at the Pratt Art Store I picked up some more speedy-cut pads and inks. We worked on these lotus prints over the weekend – the Kids just love […]
Thanksgiving weekend is the perfect time to start making Christmas cards. Christmas cards are a thing that I love to do, but if I do not get them made in the first two weeks of December, then it wont happen and I rush out and spending an uninspired $20 on store bought cards. I have […]
One of the wonderful things about cooler days is that we spend hours inside that become creative bubbles. Maya and Elle draw a lot on any given day, but now that the colder temperatures are descending we seem to be having epic draw-a-thons. Our kitchen table is used predominantly for drawing and is strewn with […]
We decided that we would send our pressed flowers to Aunt Heidi for her Birthday and so we put them all on one piece of paper to make this picture. The flowers still really need another week of drying out, but I figured the postal travel time will provide that. Here is our pressed flower […]
With the end of summer upon us, I thought it would be fun for the girls to press some of the flowers from our garden before the cold weather scares them away! We harvested some pretty blooms and arranged them on artist quality paper. I paced wax paper over the top and them put them […]
About 10 days ago the Girls and I were at the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens. We were there for a photo shoot with a friend by the lotus pond. After our photos by the wonderful water flowers we wandered around the Garden. To our delight we came across this sculpture by Patrick Dougherty. Take a look….
I feel like I am writing a book called “101 ways to water play” as it seems that every day I am trying to think of a new fun activity for water play in the back yard. Using food dye and water to entertain the Children is something I have done before, but in the […]
I have a journal that I use for designing things I want to make. I use the pages to jot notes, paste inspiration and as a place for process. It is bound hard black cover art book with many pages. Since moving to Ditmas Park Maya has claimed “The black book” as her own. Often […]
Picket fences and fluffy pink clouds is the title of this Art work. This is an installation I started and completed in 2005. It is a handmade paper site specific installation. It was constructed with hundreds of single sheets of handmade cotton paper, each one unique. I made each piece of paper from recycling t-shirts, […]
This Sculpture is on 2nd Street across from The Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture garden entrance gate. I pass it on my way to collect Maya from school. It is in the yard of a private home and I often look at this marvelous tree, wondering who made it, and what the hands are signing? After […]
Oh my darling….oh my darling Clementine….thou art lost and gone forever…. At the end of winter in NY it can be hard to find colour in the park foliage. The environment is monochromatic browns, with splatters of dark ivy and fir green here and there. With spring so close, I am often scanning the ground, […]
Tree wrapping of a different kind…. This Artwork was a Site Specific Collaborative Installation that I directed a few years ago. Artists from the community volunteered to work with students at Shearwater Steiner School in Mullumbimby, Australia. The project guidelines were based on Reconciliation. In Australia, as sited from the Australian Government, “Reconciliation is about unity and […]
Recently while filling it time during Maya’s Ballet class, I strolled down 16th Street in Brooklyn and noticed this art like form of tree wrapping. It instantly looked Japanese to me, having seen this art in Japan. In addition to the wrapping, at the base of the trees handmade stick fences had been built. This […]