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A cormorant is eating my colored pencil!! Let’s Make Art for Fun part 31 - rip your paper a little and then turn it into the mouth of an animal. I chose a cormorant, which is my favorite bird. They always remind me of dinosaurs, and I love watc
Mom and baby egret splashing in the lagoon. This is the first of a series of scenes from my neighborhood when my son was little. This one was the view from my window. It’s a bit cropped to fit Instagram’s square format. You can see the fu
Not sure how I feel about the result, but the process sure was fun! Dip a paintbrush in paint to create the lion’s fur, then raid your art supplies to add details to your heart’s content. For a detailed description and more great ideas,
Scribble Monsters! Let’s Make Art For Fun pt29, using #Artsnacks items from April and May. That bat-pig looks worried… you would be too if an evil lightning-snal was slithering close! . . . #misspowellposts #dailyartpractice #drawev
Every exercise seems to become my new favorite! Let’s Make Art For Fun pt27— magazine collage a bear at a party. Sending balloons to all the other collage bears at the social distancing party… 🐻 🎉 🎈 . . . . #collageartwork 
I got out the water colors for Let’s Make Art For Fun pt26— tracing spoons then filling them in with people. Cat was a soup spoon. Gran is a serving spoon. Dad is a wooden spoon. And the boy was a lumpy shell-shaped spoon. . . . . . . #le
I’ve decided not to do the 100 day project this year. I can’t find a way to fit it in without adding stress to these crazy stay-at-home days. Instead, I’ll continue with @misspowellposts #letsmakeartforfun whenever I get a chance.
I used my big supply of paper scraps and collaged a rainbow for my yard (laminated with packing tape). It made me so happy to see a couple of rainbows on my morning walk, and I wanted to add to the joy! Originally, it was in my window, but I moved i
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Now this was VERY fun— doodling over tracings of my hands! Here’s my pt8. * * * * * *  #misspowellposts #createmakeshare #arttherapy #activitiesforkids #createmakeshare #stayathomechallenge #letsmakeartforfun
Kiddo was blissfully entertaining himself this morning, and I had a chance to do Exercise 6 of #paintingbookclub with Eva Magill-Oliver’s book “Paint Alchemy”. I like how it kind of turned into a mountain scene. 😀 If you have
Ok, I’m going to try to do this again this year. But my goal is to keep it super light, easy and fun. My project is based on Claire Powell’s #letsmakeartforfun Each day, I will fill a sketchbook spread with ink blobs or outlines. Then I&