Bumbling Art Studio

This week we made fabric pumpkins. For about half of my students this was their first time ever sewing. We made a simple running stitch around a circle piece of fabric, gathered it, stuffed, and finished by glueing on a real pumpkin stem.

Tim Burton inspired self portraits

This week we learned how to paint aspen trees with acrylic paint. I gave instructions for the trees themselves but otherwise students got creative with the backgrounds and composition.

Adult paint party- doormats

This week we painted watercolor pumpkins using a reverse painting technique. The multiple layers of paint adds depth to the pictures.
We also added flow in the dark paint which the kids loved 😊

In some of my classes we painted wooden scrapbooks. I always make sure the kids have one class each semester where they can paint whatever they want.

The last couple week we’ve worked on paper mache. My examples were a glue stick, pencil, and paint tube. But some of the kids put their own creative spin on it. I didn’t get many pictures. But here are a few. It was a challenging projects but the kids really enjoyed it!

I’m opening up a new evening sewing class! I have one girl already signed up and room for just 1–2 more students.

Ages 10–12
Tuesdays, 6:30–7:30 PM
Oct. 20 through the end of the year
$25/lesson

We’ll start with the basics—machine use & safety—and work up to stuffed animals, bags, and pajama pants.

Message me if you have a kiddo who’d like to join! 😊

This week we made multimedia pasta, still life’s.

We learned about Henri Matisse- who is one of my favorite artists. He had a hard life with a lot of illness, and late in life when painting became too physically demanded, he started making collages instead. Called them “drawing with scissors”. We talked as a class about overcoming challenges, and then made our pictures inspired, loosely, from his artwork.

This week I was hired to teach an adult paint party. Here’s just a few of their paintings. They all turned out so beautiful!