Last week Kaye led another spring-filled day of art here in Austin.  🙂  Here’s what our groups made!

Our participants love the tactile nature of working with clay, and really, who doesn’t?  We focused on some classic techniques: pinch pots and coil pots.  Participants could also use the clay and texturing tools in whatever way their imagination led them!

We also used recycled materials as stamps to create flower prints.  Some of these transformations were:

• Cut sponges (those were new :-)) became stems for flowers,

• paper towel rolls (reinforced with painters tape so they wouldn’t disintegrate!) became leaves, and

• single-size soda bottles became flowers.

The bluebonnet prints were especially fun, as participants got to dab on the blossoms with their fingers.  We used purple for blossoms in shadow, blue for blossoms in sunlight, and light blue for highlights.

Kaye said the bluebonnet prints could be hung up to dry, but that the soda bottle flowers were best drying flat so the paint didn’t run.

The drying rack looks like a garden!  Here’s to a spring full of creativity!