There are many benefits to having a four year old at home. Not only is she my darling wonderful little girl, but she is also a perfect control group for new works. When I come up with an idea for my class, and I am not really sure about how I will present it or how it will actually work, you can be sure my first lesson will go to Imogen. As they tell you in your training, it is essential to practice giving lessons, and when you have such a willing audience, it is easy.
In an effort to enliven our classroom art shelf and, hopefully make something pretty for Mother’s Day, I started researching marbleizing paper. There are beautiful paper marbleizing kits from Japan, but those were both beyond my budget and my ability. After a little quality Google research, I settled on shaving cream paper marbling. As usual, Google turns up many tutorials, and they’re all basically the same, this is the one I followed.Continue reading “marbleized spring garland”
