Saturday, February 11, 2012

Sealed with a Kiss






Yesterday we glued, sprinkled,
                   colored, scissored,
                   folded and painted 
               V A L E N T I N E S
                  to our heart's content.
          I was sad to see my friends go,
        yet after the glitter had settled,
I noticed a twinkling trail of sparkle out the studio door.



Friday, February 10, 2012

Thursday, February 9, 2012

Ice Sculpture








































This is the best project for a 
stretch of really cold weather.. 
which we haven't had YET.
But  boy, if we do.. we'll be trying this one out. 
 
These 4 year old's had a great time with it,
more images found here

Monday, February 6, 2012

Call Your Girlfriend





I don't know about you,
but every single time 
I watch these girls
I really wish
I was standing in that kitchen.

Perfecto.

Sunday, February 5, 2012

Beehive window

Sam lined these gems up in our front window after Thursday's class.
She knew that I would love love love it.
Rows of foil hearts with tissue and gobs of glitter, 
small painted wooden hearts, 
and wood bases for clay faces.


And RED HOTS


Tuesday, January 31, 2012

color palette


       Our color palette this week,
big bursts of paintings are coming at ya... stay tuned.

Friday, January 27, 2012

from EEP




















Over the years I have been the lucky recipient to bits and pieces
from my Grandfather's (E. Edson Poler)
art supplies, kits, sketch books and things like that.
I adore this box of pastels, untouched, and had to share with you on this rainy day. 
I would have loved for him to visit my studio, pull up a stool and share his life with me. 
My Grandfather  would be 104 this month.

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Marbling Magic

Adding the water based ink to the water bath, drop by drop,
aiming for the floating paper disc.
Carefully swirling the trails of ink on the water's surface.
Placing the paper on water's surface until it absorbs ink.
Pulling paper off  when edges have curled up.


We LOVE marbling at Beehive.
We explore this marbling method a couple of times a year,
and when we do, it is always a big huge favorite.
It is magical, the way the ink adheres to the paper via the waters surface. 
The children have control over how much ink and 
which color combinations they want to use.  
There's no telling what the print will look like, but it almost doesn't matter 
because the process to get there is over the moon.

Aitoh Boku-Undo Suminagashi marbling kit from here.


Monday, January 23, 2012

C is for CITRUS




                                                                  
I am loving citrus these dry wintery days and cannot go a day without. 
Grapefruit alone or blended in my green drink,
lemon on everything, lemon water, lemon and ginger tea, lemon on salads,
and oodles of oranges. slurp!
oranges
lemons
baked-grapefruit