(sketchy styles makes chevron collages from magazine bits! ) 

Making art is not an idle hobby, it is a necessity for your body, mind and soul.  While your art may be drawing, dancing, singing, playing music, styling clothes, decorating homes or even needlepoint (!), there is always room for experimentation and play.  These crafty DIY’s are an easy-in to more art-making. Whether you bake up some marbled crayons or chevron a collage from old magazine tears like Sketchy Styles did, make art!

Sharing more ways to make more art is my not-so-subtle way to give you an endless well of ways to start the art making!

And if you are feeling “creatively blocked” at the moment, click back here to start to unwind that “block”  as you play with color and all kinds of messy and colorful goodies! 

(sweet and simple things) 

Spin painting is vibrant, dynamic, focused your mind and feels very “elaborate” yet Sweet & Simple Things will show you how to make it in a salad spinner.

(hello bee DIY finger paint) 

Hello Bee’s non-toxic finger paint is a project adults as well as kids can dig into.  There is something so vicerally satisfying about geting your hands in finger paint… and so lovely that this is the safest way to do it with kids.

(intimate weddings)

And these lovely tins filled with crayon bits (I have tons of these bits in my house, and I am betting your friends with kids have them, too!) will bake into….

(intimate weddings) 

something incredibly fun to hold and draw with!  Intimate Weddings nails this DIY of crayons I cant wait to get my hands on.

Touchable, approachable, squishy, smooth, soft, sleek… all the kinds of information in texture that I know you will want to get a hold of as you play around and raise the creative quotient of your days!

Need more motivation? Here are 3 big reasons why you should make more art! 

xoxo Dana

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