Art fun with Freya

She's learning to count and recognise numbers....

During some nonsense we invented the idea of a banana with three legs, but I suspect the toy bunch of bananas influenced it. When asked to draw "a banana with three legs" this is what she came up with -

Sticker books and activity books are fun, even though she doesn't follow the directions (art rebel!) -

Love this page -

...but she wasn't quite finished -

I had left my palette out, the paint dry in the wells - she fetched water, found a brush and got to work, mixing the colours (eventually into mud), then washed it out in the sink. Good studio practice! She's learning to wash out her brush before changing colours, but also enjoys seeing what colours come out of mixing -

3D "drawing" with lego -

A quiet moment, such concentration -

 

Studio Saturday - Dolly

The summer sun is at the right angle to catch the leaves of the peace lily - yet another possibility for a woodblock print -

- but not yet, the grandbaby must have a doll.

I found a pattern, and dug out some recycled linen and a remnant from a favourite dress -

Failure to re-read the instructions led to some tricky moments attaching the head - "next time" I'll sew it on to the body as instructed, rather than stuffing it first!

 We got there in the end -

The tricky part is the hair; the scary part is  the embroidered face. This, I decided, is too much detail, and could so easily go wrong -

Better to leave the child to decide whether she's happy, sad, etc -

Dolly was well received -

Apart from Dolly, a new woodblock is under the knife.

Sunday, sun-day

What better use of a Sunday morning than to sit lazily having breakfast and reading in a pool of sunshine? I spent longer doing this than planned, on account of getting distracted by instagram, first by the New Yorker cartoons (Laugh Out Loud!) ... and then a few other desirable images came along. So here are screenshots of the highlights of this sunny-morning scrollthrough.

Yet another fascinating photo from Nicky Hirst - what an eye she has -

 Lovely sequence of pix of work by Ruth Asawa posted by Jen Bervin-

From the prolific Hazel Jarvis, witty reinterpretations of some folk tales -

Thus do we "spend" our "free" time....