Spring Break is on the horizon and I am opening the doors once again for your young creatives. I've got some fun ideas brewing and look forward to working hands-on with some like-minded artsy crafty kids!
Paint Night No. 2
These nights are just so so awesome. Food, drinks, and meeting new people while creating an awesome piece of art for your home!
We feasted on 3 homemade pizzas with the help of my friend Sally
Cardamom sweet potato with olives and curry roasted cauliflower
Pesto with roasted cherry tomatoes, red onion, and rosemary
and
White pizza with garlic-parsley oil, shaved parmesan, prociutto, and arugula
It was an intimate group of 4 ladies I just love. Such different and yet so very spectacular human beings. We had a lovely time and created stunning pieces that are now all up in their homes!
Beautiful work ladies!
Paint Night No.1
After a million revisions, Paint Night was relocated and whittled down to a tight group of 4 ladies. This was not the original plan, but it ended up working perfectly for a simple test run. If we are defining success by delicious food, wet whistles, and attendees who had a great time and left happy with their final product, then in spite of a sudden downpour, Paint Night was a definitely success!
Downpour? Yes, we had a very unexpected 20 minutes downpour midway through the event (as well as all day Saturday...), so these photos are actually a compilation of 3 different days of documentation. We all had to scramble to bring everything inside: the table full of paints, the food table, the rug for chilling, and of course all the easels with their canvasses. The rain failed to dampen our spirits and we continued on drinking + painting in the middle of my living room! Snacks and dessert was served just before Kevin arrived home. He was probably expecting/hoping to return to a quiet home, however, he was instead accosted by a room of roaring ladies forcing him to play "guess whose painting is whose" followed by a critique of each piece. Best.
Alright, enough chatting, onto the photos...
RECIPES
Crostini Platter via The Artful Desperado
Chocolate Cake inspired by ILĀ
Mega thanks to Kevin for the insane amount of work he did throughout the week helping to prepare everything from designing + building easels to slaving in the kitchen making all the delicious food and sangria for our lovely guests. Big hugs to my buddy Dave for helping me to streamline my ideas and keep my mind focus while accompanying me on the grocery run!
Stay Tuned for PAINT NIGHT No.2 coming this July! Date to be announced!
ART CLUB | Week 2 Wrap-Up!
I learned a lot over the 2 week stint of our Art Club. Made tweaks and took a lot of notes as I went along. I know I am too hard on myself, but I gotta keep those standards up there! Everyone had a great time and there were many parents who requested Summer classes through person, text and email, so it seems like I'm not going to have a choice. This is good.
Anyway, just a quick bunch of photos from Week 2!
THANK YOU to the ladies that encouraged NAY pushed me to set-up these classes. A special Thank You to the many moms who have been there over the last few years with my photography, for supporting me yet again on this new path. I am so lucky to be part of a community of amazing women! And a very warm Thank You to the new moms that I have met for joining in on a fruitful and fun experience! I truly had a great time with the variety of creative minds and hands, I really loved being able to recognize their different strengths and wiggle them out of their comfort zones. Looking forward to seeing familiar faces come summer time!
THANK YOU!!!!!
xoxoxo
ART CLUB | Day 4 + 5: Stamps, Patterns, Mixed-Media
Day 4 was a flop. There had to be one flopper and it was ok because we bounced back on Day 5. Also, the kids didn't realize anything was wrong as they still had a great time, but it was definitely good for us to discuss how things sometimes go awry and when they do, you push forward.
Day 4 we worked with a bunch of homemade DIY stamps to create fixed and organic patterns. We moved on with our book, one of my absolute top favourites: Extra Yarn by Mac Barnett and illustrator extraordinaire Jon Klassen. It's really the most lovely marriage of story and pictures. Our stamp exercises moved over to printmaking where we cut out shirts from burlap and printed them through a rolling press to emulate the yarn pattern that was used throughout Extra Yarn. The kids created self-portraits with their printed shirt and made their Day 4 buttons before moving onto the next project.
The next project was inspired by Oliver Jeffers' STUCK. We integrated stamp/printmaking with bubblewrap to create our own tree and used pastels to illustrate, cut out, and paste all the ludicrous objects ...
Dev here was super into his buttons. He may very well have the best set of them all as well because of this. Week 1 was great and it felt good to have that first taste of what I would be dealing with for future classes. I have had nothing but positive feedback from the kids via their parents which is really encouraging, and requests to host classes for younger kids and adult sessions! Much to plan ahead for the summer months!
xo