Crayon resist and wet-on-wet: a classic combo from last night

Leaves are always in season. And so is wet-on-wet.#artclass

Posted by Azra Momin on Wednesday, February 3, 2016

October!

October !!!#october #leaves #fallcolors #paintingfun #paintingwithkids #unschooling #homeschooling #handmade #childrensart #creativemuslimwomen #azramomin #watercolorillustration

Posted by Azra Momin on Thursday, October 1, 2015

Leaves!

I came home today to find fall leaves

blown onto our front yard.

It's not fall. It's spring. But there they were.

Sweet and beautiful and so, so perfect.

I've painted leaves on everything.

Done them on paper as botanical drawings.

Done them on paper as abstract art.

Digitally as vector illustrations.

On pots, on walls, even on clothes with sequins added :)

But I can't seem to leave the leaves behind!!!

And now I want to do a personal project all about leaves.

All the various shapes and colors they come in.

And why they are that way for that particular tree.

I can't wait to see how that turns out.

Meanwhile, this is how it's REALLY like right now:

Yay, spring!

Fused plastic fantastic

Fused plastic? When I first heard that term I thought it must be some long drawn out funky process that I wouldn't be able to do. Surprise! It's only a matter of using a hot iron on the plastic (under something stick-proof, like wax-paper, of course). So a few weeks ago I played around with used plastic bags that we end up accumulating even though we use cloth bags for grocery. These are thin, thin bags, with some writing on them in black. They are the ones on big rolls under the fruit and vegetable counters.

So anyway, I fused a bunch of bags, making an 8-ply fold for each bag and ironing them together. The result was a delicate, translucent, pliable plastic. I made a bowl out of some ( maybe I can take some pictures of that when our camera feels up to the job) but from the left over pieces I made these:

I wish I had better pictures, but here goes:

OK, this picture is REALLY grainy...


Can you see the cut out plastic house? There's some of the writing showing through, which looks pretty cool.


I embellished the house by stitching all around it as well as stiching a door shape on the front, drew some tree branches, and sewed on a random, connected ovals crochet piece I had previously made. It's now a cloud!

And here's the second one I did. Here the fused plastic is the cloud, which I made by simply cutting little circles and then sewing them on to the paper in an overlapping pattern.


With more mehndi-like embellishments:


These were so much fun to make. And I liked the fact that I used up some of that plastic! Do you have a recyling story to share?

Golden

I took this picture last week. This tree outside our window was so gloriously golden it infused the whole bedroom with an amber glow. Its leaves are mostly gone now, but the process of them turning from green to golden to fiery shades of orange was wonderful to see, and was a lovely thing to show the little BabyButterfly.

I think she enjoyed it as much as I did!