I’ve always been drawn to resist art. For those who aren’t sure what I’m talking about, resist art is art that is created by layering two different and incompatible mediums (or techniques) together, and then removing one to reveal the space beneath. You see it used a lot with negative spaceĀ art- people will put down […]
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Free Comic Book Day Ideas
I love Free Comic Book Day! The first Saturday in May (so this year May 7), comic book stores around the country have purchased specially created comics and give them away to comic lovers of all ages. They have special events, have parties, and celebrate the love of reading of comics. Libraries get into the […]
String Art, Steam, and Teens
One of the most stress relieving, intense, and coolest projects I’ve done with teens has to have been string art. I had seen it done online, and wanted to do a really neat hands-on project that would appeal to a wide variety of teens, geeks, romantics, everyone, and string art seemed to fit the […]
New Uses for Sharpies
All throughout school I was always coloring on my shoes. I had canvas shoes for the most part, and they just begged to be colored. Then the white parts of other shoes needed to be colored. I would get in trouble if I colored on my jeans, but I could mark all over my shoes […]