Learn how to combine 2 colours of yarn to make these cute Finger Knitting Snakes. We also show to to increase and decrease Finger knitting stitches. COOL!
2020 Topic 2: A Hint of Spring Hi everyone, Keren here. This topic is a chance to explore some of the new PaperArtsy Paint colours recently added to the Fresco Paint collection. Think soft greens, mauves and pinks, or maybe Seth's colours of subtle blue, cream and green which are also reminiscent of Spring, yet still offer that cosy, relaxing vibe of calm. Jo Firth-Young does pastels so well, and this is a perfect example. Jo Firth Young Leandra's tutorial on brayered backgrounds (this is part 2) utilises lots of delicious pastels. Pastels don't have to mean boring nor lack of depth. PaperArtsy Lets take a look at some palette options that might steer you in the direction we are heading. First up, some greens with neutrals. It's tempting to add a pop of colour to bring dynamism into your artistic endeavours, but these next two images show just how restful and beautiful pastels with a good neutral added in, can be. Ballard Designs TrendLand Starting to add in more greys and blue undertones takes the palette in a different direction. If you add in a warm tone of yellow, look where you end up..it brings a vivacity but still rocks the pastel palette. Dots To Lines How about greens and pinks? The peachy tones help the pinks from being too sickly sweet and the almost mossy green helps balance the combination and provide an almost neutral colour. Sarah K Wisombe Who doesn't love a mason jar? These beauties are a wonderful receptacle for the very best that springtime affords us! Home Made Lovely How about green and mauve? This stunner of a card shows the value of adding in metallics to pastel schemes. It can be pared back and sparingly used to bring warmth and bounce a little light off your art. Anna Griffin We all use paper on a regular basis, but this example is a wonderful updated version of quilling and plays around with colour in a clever way. Yulia Brodskaya Here's another image with a similar scheme. The shine from the glazed ceramic hearts combined with the raised texture is sublime. Dottery Pottery If we add blues into the purple-y combo, we have a gentle, relaxed scheme. You can almost smell the lavender! Phoebe Dreams Continuing with the cooler lavenders, we transition into the greyer blue purple tones. Source Toleshack If we really dial up the greys, the colour scheme becomes very subdued, elegant and gentle. Shari Carroll You can see all these options so far plus more on Leandra's pinterest page here to get you started in this pastel zone. You may not be ready, but pastel shade are going to be quite big in 2020. Not so wishy washy, but cleaner, greener, crisp shades of pastel. Before we head into these more summery tones, let's softly warm into it with a softer version of the palette. Scrap Art By Lady E Let's look at some images of brighter, slightly bolder pastels. Source This lively water-coloured panel uses colour blending to great effect. Pastel perfection! Source Hopefully there's one set of pastel colours that has piqued your interest. From the cool and subtle to the brighter summery ones, there's so much to choose from. Do explore the new colours of Fresco Acrylic paints to see the plethora of pastel possibilities. If you want to create along with us, please share on our social feeds so we can see what you get up to. The best places are Instagram @paperartsy or post in PaperArtsy People Group on Facebook. Make sure you tag us in your contributions, we love to see what you get up to in your creative world!
Craft project: Use red, blue and yellow cellophane to make a color wheel that teaches about combining the primary colors. Have your child see how many colors can be made by overlapping the cellophane layers. To see even more colors, the color wheel doubles as a spy glass that your child can look through to make the colors of things change.
A range of free printable SEN teaching resources used with Autistic pupils aged 4-18, literacy, numeracy, topic and themed resources.
Aboubakar Fofana is a master natural indigo dyer dedicated to sharing his passion for ancestral growing, weaving and dyeing skills throughout the world.
No matter whether we want to add a few stripes to the project or to work in a more complicated colour pattern, at some point we have to attach the yarn in a new colour to the work. The question is: “What is the best way to do it?” Well, the best way is the one […]
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** please see below "these products go well with that" for paint colour recommendations for this paper ** MINT decoupage papers have been created especially for furniture art and refurbishment. Each design is available in two sizes, A1 and A3 and printed on stock specifically chosen for decoupage. Our papers have been meticulously chosen to ensure your projects become works of art on completion. Mint decoupage papers come with comprehensive instructions or you can view methods of application in the tutorial section on our website here. Papers may appear larger/smaller in the web preview than they actually are. A3 - 297mm x 420mm / 11.7" x 16.5" A1 - 594mm x 841mm / 23.4" x 33.1"
magical contamination: mould as art by antoine bridier-nahmias expresses the textural and colourful diversity of fungi, though an array of patterns.
tree moss
We all know that knitting with different colors is a lot of fun and a great way to add personality to our knitting projects. Whether you’re working on stripes, stranded knitting, or intarsia,…
No matter whether we want to add a few stripes to the project or to work in a more complicated colour pattern, at some point we have to attach the yarn in a new colour to the work. The question is: “What is the best way to do it?” Well, the best way is the one […]
Bark
One of my favourite plants to dye with in the spring is the stinging nettle – it’s one of the plants I most look forward to. The leaves give me a soft grey-green hue at this time of year (maybe you get a slightly different colour?) – the colour just feels so fresh and “alive”...
Great way to develop your photography or experimentation skills by doing some projection photography. Could link it to hidden identity, disguise, alter ego/multiple personalities or expression. Li…
Revive the lost art of crochet temperature blankets with me in 2019! Let's bring this vibrant project back to life.
Learn how to discretely change colour when crocheting in continual rounds, using a standing single crochet and invisible join.
Glow sticks aren't just for wearing as bracelets! You can also make some pretty incredible crafts, put together some amazing activities or use them to create awesome party decorations! These glow stick ideas are SO MUCH FUN! I'm not sure what it is about glow sticks, but they can make every day items and activities super cool... super cool AND glow in the dark! (We all know that things are much more fun when they glow in the dark.) You can pick and choose one or two just for fun, or you could throw a whole glow stick themed party some evening. No matter
Draw like Andy Warhol (basic printmaking)
Barcelona-based art director and graphic designer Ana Domínguez feels most comfortable when creating eccentric interpretations of art.
Jill Bliss is an artist (and naturalist, educator, farmhand, caretaker, and deckhand) who lives on a small island in the Salish Sea in the Pacific Northwest. In 2012 she sold her house and nearly everything she owned to move to the island and reconnect with nature after a busy career as a designer in New York and San Francisco. Using a wide assortment of the beautifully vibrant wild fungi she finds, Bliss turns them into stunning arrangements and photographs them for a project she calls Nature Medleys. See below for a collection of some of our favorites. You can follow the artist on Instagram, and you can also find much of her work for sale in her online shop.
Wonder what interior design trends are gaining popularity in 2022? Here are 8 interior design trends for 2022 including Dulux colour paint trends, arch design, Biophilic design, 70s aesthetic, rattan decor, and so much more! Learn more about the hottest 2022 home decor trends here and be on your way
Italian photographer Maurizio Di Iorio has worked for the likes of Vogue, Elle, Wallpaper*, Vice and Bloomberg Businessweek, creating vibrant fashion images and…
Sicily, Italy based artist Sasha Vinci creates haunting sculptures and installations that contemplate the nature of man's existence. While his works can be morbid and a bit terrifying, as in his series of fleshy seated subjects waiting for eternity, Vinci also finds beauty and sexuality in the human figure. Known for his captivating and carnal sculptures, Vinci is a true multimedia artist, also exploring drawing, painting, writing, sound design and performance art.
Natural Dye from Plants using Dandelion Flowers - Step by step tutorial for dyeing yarn or fabric with dandelion flowers from your backyard.
The winning pictures in the Landscape Photographer of the Year 2011 contest.
First a disclaimer: no pennies were harmed in the process of dyeing this fabric. Craft of the Dyer: Colour from Plants and Lichens by Nova Scotia dye expert Karen Leigh Casselman is my main dye bible. Most of the dye recipes are for plants found in North America, but Casselman offers two offbeat mineral dye recipes with copper pennies and clay as the dyestuff. This summer I'll try the clay recipe which is very messy. Copper penny blue was manageable in my laundry room. Dawn MacNutt adapted the recipe from a Salish Weaving book and shared it with Casselman. The recipe is simple: combine ammonia, water, pennies, and fabric in a sealed glass jar and let sit for a few weeks. Ammonia is dangerous to work with, so I wore a respirator, safety glasses, a splash shield, a dye apron, and chemical gloves when I handled it. I immersed 417 pennies in a solution of one-third cup of ammonia and two-thirds cup of water, and then added more water and fabric. I let the mixture sit for 3 weeks. The pennies are not harmed in any way and can be used for the usual purposes once they are rinsed at the end of the dye process. The book goes into more detail than what I have given here. As you can see, the copper penny ammonia dye solution yielded a grey blue on cotton fabric. Next I'll add some pale onion skin dyed fabric to see what shade of green I get. Pennies are no longer made of 100% copper. Canadian pennies were made of copper until 1996 and U.S. pennies were made of copper before 1982, so I bought $10 worth of pennies from the bank and sorted them. Ten dollars (1000 pennies) yielded 415 copper pennies, less than half. I haven't yet read India Flint's dye books – I'm planning to get my hands on them this Spring. Casselman's book is extremely informative but lacks pictures. Some of the newer dye books have gorgeous pictures that are beautifully styled but basic information like light-fastness is missing.
Have you tried avocado dyeing but were hoping for brighter pinks? Or maybe you’ve been meaning to try for a while but had a few questions before you started. This blog post is packed with tips that will help you. Before I jump into that, I just wanted to mention something that I think you’ll...
You’ve probably seen the odd tutorial for something like this, but this one is just a bit extra special. How amazing is the vessel above? I just love the colour combinations, the…
Ten tips that will help you improve your stranded knitting technique and make projects made in Fair Isle and other colour patterns better.
No matter whether we want to add a few stripes to the project or to work in a more complicated colour pattern, at some point we have to attach the yarn in a new colour to the work. The question is: “What is the best way to do it?” Well, the best way is the one […]
Tiny amigurumi animals are cute and work up fast, so grab your crochet hook and try these cute patterns. They are easy and fun to make!
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Ginkgo leaf stamp 5.5 cm x 5 cm / 2.1' x 2' / My stamps are unmounted. I can make a wooden base if needed, write to me please. The stamp may have some ink staining beacuse of test for quality. All stamps are ‘made-to-order’ and will be carved after the time of purchase; please note that there will be slight variations from the stamp pictured such is the nature of it being hand carved. The rubber colour may vary depending on my current carving material and is 0.8mm thick. Item will be pack carefully in the bubble padded. Production time: 8-12 business days Estimated delivery days (via standard mail) : Usa, Canada, Australia - about 2-4 weeks Asia, Europe - 1-2 weekss rest of the world - 2-5 weeks Estimated delivery days are not guaranteed. Any question feel free to contact me anytime. WILD STAMPS ©2023 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
I don't quite remember when I first became aware of avocado dye. I think when I was searching for food colouring dyeing I accidentally ca...
Photographer Jurij Treskow produces a dramatically visual, sensual statement featuring model Jennifer Koch for Tush Magazine. We assume it issue #36 with documentation credits are pitiful here. After 20 minutes, we’re throwing in the towel.
I love Brioche, especially the chocolate kind….but this post isn’t about the bread brioche, its about the knitting brioche! Brioche knitting is a kind of one or two (or more?) colour kn…
