Every Sunday is Art Day at our house! This week we dove into a Creativebug watercolour techniques class taught by Yao Cheng. We were excited to pull out the supplies and play!
We experimented with circles and triangles, cool colours and warm colours.
We chose a mascot for Art Day and new instantly this would become a tradition!
We spent hours chatting, creating and having fun with colour.
Lastly, we experimented, exploring what we’d learned in our own way.
Clearly Moose approves.
Every Sunday is Art Day at our house! This year we often spend it working on a lesson from Carla Sonheim & Lynn Whipple’s Year of the Spark. This week we dove into an exploration of our artistic self, including our favoured colour palettes. It was fascinating to see the through-lines in everything from our favourite foods to our favourite shapes and colours.
It was especially nice for my sister Shannon and I to be able to talk through our answers and share our artistic selves. It was fun to see where we were the same (we both put a big table as key to our creative environments) and where we are different (I choose simple. Shannon chooses complex.) Not only did we get to know ourselves better but one another too!
This is the palette I favoured this week.
And here are Shannon’s.
I also drew on Lynda Barry’s book Syllabus. One exercise she gives her students is to do a lot of colouring and then line their crayons up in a row and see which colours they favour. So fun! When I was figuring out what to call my set of much-used colours, Shannon noted they are “garden colours” and that works for me!
Speaking of the garden, I popped out to try and find a plant that Shannon really enjoyed the scent of when we painted with found items last year. This geranium leaf was a contender but not the right peppery one!
Art day is also giving me the opportunity to learn to use my DSLR! Hopefully we’ll keep seeing my photos get better and better!
Today I am hosting the first ever Studio Garden Hop.Creativity lives everywhere, including in our green spaces. It’s been a delight for me to share my garden with you through tours and the #goodmorninggarden series on Instagram.
Now it’s your turn!
Share your garden, your green space, your plant table, your hanging baskets!
Share a blog post, a video, a slideshow, whatever you like.
The post will be open throughout this week until so there’s plenty of time for you to create what you’d like to share! Invite your friends too! Let each of these links be like a magical pathway for us to discover one another’s gardens.
Creativity lives everywhere, including in our green spaces. It’s been a delight for me to share my garden with you through tours and the #goodmorninggarden series on Instagram.
This Sunday, share your garden, your green space, your plant table, your hanging baskets!
Share a blog post, a video, a slideshow, whatever you like.
On Sunday May 24th, I’ll put up a post with a place for you to leave a link to your “garden.”
It will be like a magical pathway for each of us to walk and discover one anothers gardens.
Here’s a badge for you to include in your post as a participant.
One of the joys of my week is Art Day every Sunday at our house. My sister Shannon and I spend a few hours at the kitchen table, exploring, creating and having a wonderful time. This week was extra special because my sister Suzie is in visiting from Vancouver and we were able to all create together!
All three of us are taking Year of the Spark with Carla Sonheim & Lynn Whipple. We got out all of our supplies and dove into Packing Tape 101, a lesson from Carla.
I found it surprisingly fun to paint on packing tape!
Perhaps the greatest delight of the day was seeing how everyone’s personal style came out in their creations. Here’s Shannon’s, which includes this awesome cosmic dog on the right!
Suzie used food as her inspiration and came up with these beauties. I love the way the one on the left captures her sense of cute and street at the same time!
And I think I must have been inspired by my recent visit to the Emily Carr exhibit! She and I share a love of trees.
The upcoming Full Strawberry Moon is all about delight. Clearly we’re feeling her influence already!
This year for the garden I decided to stop relying on whatever the buyer my local garden centre happens to order and instead branch out into the possibilities of what I can order online. Somehow I stumbled across Botanus, a mail-order gardening company guided by three women and three values: Care ~ Inspire ~ Grow. I signed up for their newsletter, watched some of their YouTube videos and decided I was going to give ordering a try. I wanted to share with you the excitement of opening up the box and discovering treasures within!
Acidanthera bicolor murielae
Astilbe japonica ‘Deutschland’
Astrantia major ‘Star of Billion’
Athyrium niponicum ‘Metallicum’
Cafe au Lait Giant Dinnerplate Dahlia
Claire Austin David Austin Rose
Helleborus orientalis ‘Double White Pearl’
Hemerocallis ‘White Temptation’
Philadelphus ‘Snowbelle’
