Botanical drawings

On the 3rd of December I am part of the Mapua Makers market and I will sell my Plantain Calendula Balms for itchy skin and insect bites, also a natural insect repellent and a face/body cream for mature skin.

  

 I like to draw botanical pictures for labels to attach to the products and also to decorate my stall.

I really want to make my stall attractive and personal,so working hard to get all the illustrations finished and printed on time.

Decorated fence palings

A great art project for children is painting fence palings for the garden.

The fence palings are normally used for low garden fencing and can be bought in most hardware stores.

I bought my fence palings at Bunnings in Nelson.

Before the art class I sanded the palings and gave them a quick undercoat with white acrylic paint and then sanded the palings again to achieve a smooth surface for decorating.

The finished fence palings all different

 Before the children started to paint the palings I asked them to draw a design on paper first and incorporate all the different ideas for the fence paling.
Then the children used a coloured pencil to divide the paling into sections like head, body, legs.
The children started to paint the background first and the following session we added all the details.

We let the paint dry and then I sprayed the artwork with varnish so the finished fence palings can be placed in the garden.

Printing class for children

 A few weeks ago my children's art group did a printing workshop again.

The printing was done on a gelatine base, the recipe for the gelatine base is in one of my older posts about gelatine printing.
The printing workshop was done over two weeks; the first week the children printing backgrounds and the second week the children used the prints for art works.
The printing was done with different materials: bubble wrap, feathers,leaves etc.

the back ground prints

Finished art work

 The art cards are finished with stamps of birds.

The printing in action