Showing posts with label painting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label painting. Show all posts

4.22.2010

Exploring Waldorf-y materials...


First. YAY! I won an adorable give away (which if you'll notice via the right sidebar I share the ones I've entered & you should as well. The list is pretty long right now! feel free to let me know about yours, I'd be thrilled to add them--I do try to keep them appropriate to this space').

Anyway, Ancient Hearth had their first give away & I'm so excited because we now have the sweetest Wild Mother Nature you ever did see. She has a nest of eggs in her hair, rain & sun & fire & lightening & Einstein hair & she's quite large, bigger than we expected! There are more pics here.

Another exciting thing came in the mail last week, a book about wet-on-wet water color painting & teaching it to children, per the Waldorf manner (if you're interested, email me & I'll send you info on how to order it). We'd explored some before, but this book really outlines & is written in a very jolly and entertaining tone. Naomi loved the 'spreading' effect & was totally amazed. I like giving her a less structured medium, I think it only encourages her imagination.

So, getting the mail has been done with wonder & zeal this week, anything you're doing wondrously zealously?

stay tuned. Drew & I have a BIG day tomorrow...I'm certain I'll have something to share. (& this has nothing to do with fertility or moving).

2.23.2010

Playing with Paint

Yesterday we were back inside, as mentioned before.
Leviah has been a little on edge--not sure if it's a lack of sleep, this oh-so-mean & teasy weather, or if she's fighting some bug, but in an effort to distract her we made finger 'paint' yesterday. Simple enough.
Naomi & I were doing some flower studies with this set of water color pencils Drew recently brought home & little Lev seemed like she wanted to be included.

Just a few tablespoons of flour, a little water, a few drops of food coloring & wa-lah.
She didn't participate for long & mainly thought I was mean for not allowing her to eat it by the spoonful, but we'll definitely try again on a better day.
Naomi did add it to her mixed-media piece however!
& I'm no Van Gogh, but I was pleasantly surprised with my own little 'study'. I'll for sure be playing with these pencils more in the future. Being creative for the heck of it sure is relaxing...

if you have a quick second--go here & vote for Casual 12. Thanks!