All You Need Is Gold Spray Paint
They are super easy to make and are super cute and easy for kids to make. These are the perfect Halloween goody bags or favors at Halloween parties, to give to friends, or children to give out to classmates. Easy to make felt bats to hang by string from the ceiling or stick on the walls. 5. Golden PumpkinsThese make a great centerpiece for a Halloween party.
All you need is gold spray paint. This Sugar Skull pinata was made for Day of the Dead and used as a centerpiece for the Day of the Dead party table. Day of the Dead is celebrated the day after Halloween. A skull pinata is a great addition to any Halloween party. Now that you made all those crafts, now it's time to make some sweet crafty Halloween treats.
These Skeleton cookies were made with a soft gingerbread recipe and a gingerbread man cookie cutter. These vampire cookies are almost too cute to eat. 9. Skull PancakesUsing Skull Pancakes molds I made these cute skull heads for Halloween morning. And most recently I made these pumpkin flavored and pumpkin shaped chocolate chip pancakes. These make a great breakfast for Halloween.
The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) in London has been plagued by financial problems and it would appear lost confidence in its former Director and Chair, both of whom resigned last summer. It would appear that the new Director has some considerable, practical and relevant experience - always a good reason for making an appointment -see Art Dealer Gregor Muir Named Director of London's Troubled ICA.
Jonathan Jones (The Guardian - Jonathan Jones on Art) is of the view that the new Director can restore the ICA to its former glory - see What Gregor Muir can do for the ICA. He predicts a return to exhibitions involving big names and global art which is hot! BBC has remastered Kenneth Clark's "Civilisation" for HD and will begin broadcasting on 9th February . The landmark series was first broadcast on BBC2 in 1969 and traces the development of western art and philosophy.
Stapleton Kearns (Stapleton Kearns) has started a new blog project - 100 paintings artists should know (in the opinion of Stapleton Kearns!). Here are the posts so far. I must confess I haven't quite got the hang of how his sequence of titles are working although I've listed in the order posted.
100 paintings that painters should know. I've been studying portraiture of late and earlier this week posted How to identify favourite portrait painters. Who are your favourite portrait painters of all time, I've been focusing on my end of year polls relating to pastels and pencils this month. Which is your favourite make of hard pastels,
I added a section about PanPastels into my information site Pastels - Resources for Artists this week and discovered that this brand of pastels also has a blog! Enter Paint Draw Blend Exploring the World of PanPastel Colors for Painting, Drawing & Mixed Media Art. Mitchell Albala has got a new app related to his book about landscape painting. Landscape Painting — There’s an App for That! However I found it left me down a dead end when I got into one of the sections and I couldn't get out.
James Gurney's (Gurney Journey) got a talent for blog post titles - this one grabbed my attention Van Gogh’s Color Schemes Served as Pie Charts. The topic is also great for showing you the balance of colours in a painting. I loved the simplicity of just focusing on one colour - What’s your favourite Red, I'll comment on this in a future post but here's the guts of the changes being made.
