ScrapSayings, Arts and Crafts

  • Aging is a fine art

  • Art knows no boundaries

  • The Art world has a new star.

  • The art-ful dodger

  • The Artistic Stylings of [your child's name]

  • Art-tastic / Art-tistic / Artiful / Artistry

  • Artist at work

  • As we advanced in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.
    - Vincent van Gogh

  • Bold Brush Strokes

  • Cement Rembrandt/Sidewalk Picasso (chalk art)

  • Chalk Art brought to you by: [your child's name here]
    (I took pictures of a lot of my kids sidewalk art. They really put a lot of time in and it would get washed away too soon.)

  • The chief enemy of creativity is good taste. - Picasso

  • Creative Arts/ Endeavors

  • A creative mess is preferable to an idle neatness.

  • Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes.
    Art is knowing which one to keep. - Scott Adams

  • Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun. - Mary Lou Cook

  • Creativity often starts where language ends. - Arthur Koestler

  • Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties. - Erich Fromm

  • Creativity runs in the family (child and parent working together)

  • Cut and Paste

  • Did I say, paint everywhere EXCEPT on the paper?

  • Discover your inner artist

  • Doodling Around

  • Doodling With Style

  • Do you think it will make the Saturday Evening Post?

  • Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. - Vincent van Gogh

  • He paints by the seat of his pants, and his shirt and his hair.

  • I paint as a bird sings. - Claude Monet

  • If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. - John F. Kennedy

  • If no one ever took risks, Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor. - Neil Simon

  • The Imagination Factory

  • In order to have a real relationship with our creativity, we must take time and care to cultivate it. - Julia Cameron

  • Inspirational

  • It's "WONDER BOX": a train, a car, and a speedboat - with just a little imagination it can be anything. (cardboard box creation)

  • Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can. - Danny Kaye

  • Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands. - Cathy Better

  • Life is your blank canvas - paint your masterpiece.

  • Love is the greatest refreshment in life. - Picasso

  • No no, it's play by ear, not paint by ear. (paint all over face)

  • One man's trash is another man's treasure.

  • Our Little Artist

  • Our Moody Monet

  • Our Pretty Picasso ( abstract)

  • Our Rustic Rembrandt

  • Passionate about/for Art

  • Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will be powerless to vex your mind.
    - Leonardo Da Vinci

  • A picture paints a thousand words.

  • Prints Charming

  • Put down the brush and no one will get hurt.

  • Refuse to be ordinary

  • Show your colors

  • Sidewalk Art Show ( chalk drawings)

  • Stand back and give me room.

  • A stitch in time saves nine. - Benjamin Franklin

  • Talanted Hands/Eye

  • Think outside/inside the box! (my kids loved decorating big shipping boxes)

  • To some it is only junk -- to me it is art.

  • Trash to Treasure

  • A true Artist

  • The ultimate inspiration is a deadline.

  • You're my inspiration …


Tips:

-- I took pictures of a lot of my kids' sidewalk art. They really put a lot of time in and it would get washed away too soon.

-- Who has room for all the artwork that comes home from school? I mock framed their work and took pictures of it. Then I put the years work on Art Show pages. My kids look back and remember that I framed their work and laugh.

-- If there are any cute stories on how a particular piece of art `came-to-be', journal it next to the picture. `It really looked good until Billy spilled water on the whole table. My art teacher said it was the best water color she had ever seen.'