Tag: texture

Mixed Media Bugs Using Scrap Art Paper

.Reading time 4 minutes.

If you have a child that loves to paint, this activity will be a sure hit because it allows them to get messy and creative with unusual painting tools to make textured papers..or if you happen to have a stack of painted papers from your child’s “free paint” that you can’t part with then this […]

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Nature Has the Best Art Materials!

.Reading time 2 minutes.

This post contains affiliate links.  Arbor Day was a few days ago and although we didn’t get around to planting a tree we did plant some vegetables in our garden beds! We also read one of our favorite books, Tap The Magic Tree, and did a little tree branch painting activity. We went out to […]

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Create Beautiful Texture Using This Watercolor Technique

.Reading time 4 minutes.

Watercolor round 2! I showed my girls several different techniques to do with watercolor the other day and they all turned out beautiful! I wrote about this one and wanted to share another one with you that we did. This technique uses salt to create beautiful effects and it is a must try when using watercolors. It […]

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Nature Shadow Boxes

.Reading time 5 minutes.

It looks like we are already into summer here in Alabama with our high 80’s we have been having and 90 degrees coming up this week. We have short springs here so we enjoyed this project on one of our cool afternoons a few weeks ago when we still had some spring foliage with some […]

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