Shrove Tuesday
There was a lot of love at the Sanctuary cafe today, as 60 children arrived with their parents and grandparents to make a pancake. As...
Blue Horses
An idea from the All change Art for Wellbeing Challenge was to "look at Franz Marc's colourful painting Blue Horses and try drawing or...
How to build sandcastles
One idea I had for our display of "Things we learned from our mothers" is building sandcastles. I have some lovely black and white photos...
Getting ready for Easter
Nine people met in the Sanctuary hub today, and we decorated a white "tree" with some of our polystyrene eggs, to be sold in the library...
The significance of blue
Still on the subject of colourful clothes, I thought of Indian saris. Blue is a popular colour for these, associated with Lord Krishna,...
Colourful clothing
Today's "All change Art for Wellbeing" challenge was to draw or paint some colourful clothing. According to nkiti, an African clothing...
Blue heart
Idea Number 3 of the All change Art for Wellbeing Challenge is to "paint or draw a colourful abstract – – with a dark silhouette added."...
Peacock
I painted this in acrylic at a Paint Away workshop at the Walker Art Gall;ery in Liverpool. We were given a small canvas with the outline...
All Change Art for Wellbeing Challenge
The aim of the challenge is to alternate between abstract and figurative art, and the second challenge was a figurative one - to "draw...
Tulips
Beautiful tulips are appearing in the shops now. The word "tulip" comes from a Persian word meaning "turban." These ones were on the...