Artsy fartsy

the art room plant: Walktheline

After such a long project to complete these beauties I wanted my 4th graders to have a really fun, stress free, extension for those that were done on our last workday of this project... enter Roll-A-Picasso! I did this last year after my 4th and 5th graders finished up this project. And it was a huge hit, entertained for the entire 45mins! I made these sheets up ahead of time after finding a not so great version online awhile back and borrowed some dice from a classroom teacher.... Just a…

Easily Blend Colored Pencils with Baby Oil #JohnsonsBeautyHack

I was inspired to draw and carve my hand holding a flower after visiting the Bread and Puppet Theater in Vermont. Sonja Larsen (my daughter and author of Before the Revolution to be published in 2016) sent me the life changing quote. JessePrints.Etsy.com

In April 2015, Little Rock Illustrator Sally Nixon started an art project called "365" in which she had to create one illustration per day for a whole year. As it was not that easy to think of new drawing ideas so frequently, Sally started to search for inspiration in her own life and simple routine moments that she's going through. The artist wanted to show the natural side of real women besides staged Instagram selfies, Snapchat filters, and all the other forms of social media that rule…

As you might've realized from our publications on the Facebook group 'What in the $20 wish tattoo machine is this?' or the 'That's It, I'm Inkshaming' group, sadly, subpar tattoos are pretty common. Which makes the good ones even more admirable.

One of the biggest casualties of the digital age has been the fine skill of handwriting, and the opportunities to show off one's artsy and satisfyingly precise script are diminishing every day. When was the last time you picked up a pen?

(Warning: This post contains nudity.)

羽化, “Uka” (L’émergence des insectes/Emergence of Insects) Masaaki Sasamoto