Easter Bunny Football

Oh, how I love making and playing with these! However I have never made rabbits before, but Easter football with mini eggs as balls is just perfect fun. 

If you are wondering what has happened to 'the art room', I am trying to make an instructional art/craft video every day of lockdown to make it more bearable and fun for adults and kids, sometimes I am making things up, sometimes adapting or inventing from scratch and weaving in my usual findings from illustrators and artists around the world. 

Happy Easter

A colour-changing drawing project for the spring holiday.

Adrienne Adams II

'The Easter Egg Artists' Pub. 1976 by Adrienne Adams. Adrienne (1906-2002) was born in Arkansas and initially studied art at Stephens College, Missouri. She moved to New York aged 23 to study at the American School of Design. On graduating she became a designer of displays, murals, textiles, greeting cards. In 1935 she married the author John Lonzo Anderson a children's book author, her first illustrated children's book was John's story 'A Bag of Smoke' in 1942. Adrienne illustrated over 30 books and was recognized with honors from Caldecott in 1960 and 1962. In 1973 she was awarded the Rutgers Award for overall contributions to children's literature. 

 

 'The Easter Egg Artists' is a wonderful book about growing up and satisfaction in a job well done and the rewards it can give. It has delicate illustrations in a pastel palette.

Eggs and eyeballs

Easter Sunday and I have been at a pirate event, holding a replacement eye workshop.
Today was a ninety egg (eye) day and I was so happy as we completed the last eye in the final 5 minutes, perfect!

Happy Easter

We have had a great day painting eggs and then hurling them down a hill for the seagulls and crows to swoop upon. Freya made a pirate and her cat, I was going for Alice in Wonderland but ended up with an Indian style tiger, and Gordon and Finlay went for patterns, amazing how painting eggs inspires everyone.

Happy Easter

Hickerty Pickerty My Black Hen

Hickerty, Pickerty my black hen,
She lays eggs for gentlemen,
Sometimes nine and sometimes ten
Hickerty, Pickerty my black hen. 

Hope you are having a lovely weekend.

János Kass II

Some more illustrations by Hungarian artist János Kass, a perfect Happy Easter in pictures.

The goose that laid the golden egg

The goose and the golden egg.

As promised . . .

A day of eggs x

Matryoshka eggs

Happy Easter. I was hoping to have a whole collection of Russian doll eggs ready for you by today, but time got ahead of me and I only have this just started one to share. I will try to get them finished when I get back on Wednesday.

Happy Easter and Thank you

This week has been one of generous gifts and surprises.
I won a prize a wonderful rabbit by Lisa Rendina (Thank You X)

I was sent a fabulous recipe book 'The Handsome Chip' (Thank you X)

And I received a fantastic dossier of fantastic illustration fresh from the Bologna Children's Book Fair (Thank you X), I am a very lucky lady.

Thank you for all the comments and encouragement you give to me and the artists I feature on this blog.

I Hope you have a lovely Easter/Spring celebration, Thank you x

Blowing Eggs

Moby Dick Egg, it is early, but we have our spring holidays now and so I wanted to have the fun of making painted eggs again.

This time I have blown the eggs (with the help of all my family) and as Freya is on mass production, all egg blowers are welcome at our house.

Last egg of easter

Happy Easter

Above: Rapunzel, Below: Mermaid

Below: Jay's Little Red Riding Hood

It started as some fun to surprise Jay and now I can't stop, good job it's the Easter weekend! Hope you all have a lovely Easter eating lots of chocolate and having lots of fun.

Egg workshop

Egg painting today at work, above is my student Paige's blue rabbit egg.

Easter Pinata's

I make a lot of Pinatas with my students to celebrate various festivals and I have done for years. This is a tiny selection of one groups Easter pinatas, the best thing about this class is the laughter. Maybe I should record it like the sparrows in my five faves, bottle it, it is magic.

Eggtastic

Fantastic fun egg racing today, down a course resplendent with egg catchers, death pit and egg monster thanks to Noah, Evie, Joff, Lauren, Finlay and Freya.

Easter Paper Cuts

I have been playing with paper cuts, wonderful to play with light through, almost as good as shadow puppets.