All Entries in the "ART & CRAFT Tutorials" Category

Halloween Acorn pumpkins decoration

Want a festive decoration that won’t clutter up your porch? Try a patch of mini pumpkins small enough to fit in your child’s hand.   Materials Acorns Orange acrylic paint Brown acrylic paint Black permanent marker Instructions Remove the caps from a handful of acorns. Coat each one with orange acrylic paint, adding a bit [...]

Easter Egg decoration

These hard-boiled snorkelers are fully equipped for a dip in the blue (or green or pink). For a hilarious centerpiece, display a row of the finished dudes sitting in their dye-ving tanks.     Materials Egg dye White eggs, hard-boiled Permanent marker 3/4-inch round white adhesive labels 1-inch-wide water-bottle lids Small rubber bands White glue [...]

oil paintings

Traditional oil painting techniques often begin with the artist sketching the subject onto the canvas with charcoal or thinned paint.  A basic rule of oil paint application is ‘fat over lean’. This means that each additional layer of paint should contain more oil than the layer below to allow proper drying. If each additional layer [...]

paintings by vincent van gogh

Vincent van gogh was grown up in Holland and spend rest of the life as a pastor in france. Vincent van Gogh painted almost 900 paintings.  Since his death, he has become one of the most famous painters in the world.              

paintings by Frank Auerbach

Frank Auerbach was born in Berlin, the son of Max Auerbach, a patent lawyer, and Charlotte Nora Burchardt, who had trained as an artist. Auerbach’s first solo exhibition was at the Beaux Arts Gallery in London in 1956.Auerbach is a figurative painter, who focuses on portraits and city scenes in and around the area of [...]

new designs of hair bands and clips

Home Theater room

Old Blue Jean Denim Pocket Magnets

Finding ways to recycle old and used items into new things can be fun and helpful to the environment. Some of my favorite crafts have come from old things that I have made into something new and exciting. This is something that I have done many times and given them away because they make great [...]

Seashell Decorated Diffuser Bottle

Since summer is coming to an end I wanted to do a craft that would allow us to combine some of the fun things that we might have found at the beach. This is an easy project that can be done with just about anything and can be done on all sorts of bottles. The [...]

Cocktail Umbrella Lamp Shade

So I was looking for something unique to add to our home decor and found this amazing lamp shade. I have never seen anything like this but loved it immediately. It is also a great way to recycle those cocktail umbrellas after you have a party or get together. This lamp shade is a piece [...]