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OEA – Colour Blots

This was a bit of fun…Elijah wanted to paint mostly and not just put blobs of paint on the paper so i let him do his thing:

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Open Ended Art – Catching up!

Open Ended Art has been working on a Colour Wheel Project that I only joined in now, in the third week. We have had quite long holidays and I am enjoying getting back in the swing of OEA.

So we did Red, Yellow and Blue. Blue at the end and things got interesting then cause [...]

Open Ended Art – Feathers

I had to raid all craft supplies to gather a few feathers for this one.

Since visiting a garden centre not far from us, Peacocks had made quite an impression on my young son. Not that he thought they were “way cool” or anything. He thought them quite scary and he knows what they look [...]

Open Ended Art – Henri Matisse

Ok so to be totally honest I am not sure I managed to use Henri Matisse as a topic in our OEA but here we go…

I saw a few of this Artist’s pieces over the internet but what guided me was the article found on Wikipedia. “known for his use of colour” is about [...]

Open Ended Art – Black and white

Okay so my thoughts:

“oh dear” – used my last piece of black paper last week with the Black and orange theme Next thought was – “Oh No” – no black paint either…. Ok so I get on my PC and look up on WikiHow? how to make black paint. Answer: Equal parts red, blue [...]

Open Ended Art – Black and orange

I didn’t have any black paint so it was one of my last pieces of construction paper. I sort of leeched the idea from Fundamentals (Hope Celiah Ann will forgive me!) I made orange paint put it on two paper plates, one where I added coarse salt and another Elijah chose the sprinkles from the [...]

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This weeks theme was Autum colours, red orange, brown and yellow.

Now being in spring we have lots of colours around. I decided that even though we were doing Autumn we would use some outside spring things

First off we cut some flowers off the Lemon Verbena?and then off to collect some leaves that [...]

Open Ended Art

Egg shells…I thought to myself what on earth am I going to be able to do with egg shells! So i put some in a bowl and then when we were going to use them I realised that my domestic worker had thrown them away. So we broke some more and because there was no [...]