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Happy Accidents – or Catalysts for Creativity
‘By looking attentively at old and smeared walls, or stones and veined marble of various colours, you may fancy that you see in them several compositions, landscapes, battles, figures in quick motion,...
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Dip-dyed Landscapes
I love water-colour, I love landscape art, and I also love the dip-dyed effect. However in spite of my love of watercolour, I’ve never really mastered it as a technique – as a medium it can be...
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Mealtime Masterpieces
Everyone knows that kids love playing with their food, so why shouldn’t mealtimes be an opportunity to get creative? It can be difficult at the best of times to get kids to sit still at the table for...
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Art Portfolio Tutorial
Keeping children’s artwork in good condition can sometimes be a challenge. Even if you are ruthless about only keeping the best, there is a tendency for it to get creased and dog-eared. It makes sense...
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Fun with Frottage
One of the things I most love about art is its sensual qualities. Art can be many things, but for me it’s the visual and tactile elements of art that I especially enjoy, and which I think are also...
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Botanical Papers – Part 1
As regular readers of Artful Adventures will know, one of my favourite creative tools is our humble office scanner. I love the way it is simple to use, and creates images which are somehow both...
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Paper Diorama Masterpieces
With the new website up and running, I’ve been steadily adding some new products to the Artful Kids range, so over the next few weeks interspersed with my other posts, I thought I’d introduce a few...
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Artful Excursions – Light Show
We’ve just returned from our first ever family trip to London – just for a few days (which of course is nowhere near long enough), and a very damp, snowy and cold few days it was, but a great...
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Choosing a Sketch Book
Sketch books come in many sizes and shapes – the sheer choice out there can sometimes be bewildering, but at the end of the day, what is a sketchbook? At its simplest level, it’s just a plain paper...
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What Lies Beneath – Exploring Texture and Layers.
I’ve always loved the visual effect of torn layers – billboards layered with posters, one on top of another, some ripped back to expose older ones beneath, and I once looked after an old house which...
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