BelleEnchanted

Dylan Plays With Pastels

Belle — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 15:18:49 +0000

One of the major perks of homeschooling Dylan is that I find myself making time to search out artsy things that I can do with him. And while he’s learning about shading and shapes and color combinations, I’m having a blast doing the stuff right with him.

The other day I was over at Dirty Footprints studio, and I came across a lovely video on using pastels. Dylan and I watched the video several times – he was fascinated, and so of course, next thing we knew, out came all the pastels and some stencils. We didn’t have a circle stencil, unfortunately (next up: a trip to the dollar store!) but we had a few other shapes that Dylan liked just as well. And here is his first pastel piece:

And here is the gorgeous video on playing with pastels from Dirty Footprints Studio:

365 Days of Beautiful #6

Belle — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 17:57:12 +0000

Today’s bit of beautiful: art journaling with Dylan. (The coloring book is holding down Dylan’s art journal)

365 Days of Beautiful #5

Belle — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 18:06:26 +0000

I’m just realizing that I am the most inspired by nature. Funny, because I’m not an outdoorsy person by any stretch of the imagination. I love drinking in nature’s gorgeous displays, though.

Today, it’s Dylan who inspires me:

365 Days of Beautiful #4

Belle — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 19:15:18 +0000

The view (skywards) from the back deck:

365 Days of Beautiful No. 3

Belle — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 22:00:34 +0000

There are so many inviting spaces in our house, places where you can just curl up to read or daydream. Here’s one of them, an armchair in our living room where I love to sit and read in the window light.

365 Days of Beautiful #2

Belle — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:56:07 +0000

Today’s bit of beautiful: backyard trains:

365 Days of Beautiful #1

Belle — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 20:16:35 +0000

There’s so much beauty in my life and sometimes I forget to see it. So I thought I’d start blogging a picture a day of the beautiful things in my life. 365 days of beautiful.

Dylan’s Collages

Belle — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 04:51:12 +0000

Dylan’s been cutting shapes out of scrapbooking paper and going nuts with tape (he isn’t as fond of the glue stick just yet). He loves creating collages and sticking them up on the walls and windows all over the house (we’ve since asked him to tape his pieces only to wood and windows, not painted walls!).

Collage: Train and Snowman

Stick Figure, made with paper, tape and thread

I think this following picture is an owl or something with wings. He’s sleeping right now, so I’ll have to ask him in the morning when he wakes up.

Collage Creature

Robot Creatures … on our dining room wall

So Beautiful

Belle — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 02:00:47 +0000

This is a dance by Melissa and Ade from So You Think You Can Dance; it’s a breast cancer tribute, and it is just beautiful.

Update: unfortunately, it’s been removed from Youtube. But it’s beautiful, and I am very sure you will see it around. Word is, it might even be an Emmy moment!

Artwork by Dylan: Flowers and a Shark

Belle — Thu, 07 May 2009 03:19:09 +0000

We bought a set of twelve small tempera paint jars today, and pulled out the cartridge paper. Dylan sat at the kitchen table and painted some lovely pictures.

Flowers

He painted these flowers for the guests for his upcoming birthday party. We’re having a family party, and he’s very excited, counting the sleeps before the party comes.

Shark

Sharks and dinosaurs are a new favourite. This is a shark (hammerhead, I think he said). When I marveled at the fact that he covered all of the paper, he pointed out that he needed to paint the entire background.

It’s good to see him back to doing his artwork!