Art & Ed Studio

08/02/2026

I love it when people repurpose things! Check out this customized functional Art these people are doing! I love it when folks use problem-solving and creativity to keep things out of the landfills!

Reseatables!!!

Reseatables turns old car seats into one-of-a-kind chairs◂WX...

03/27/2026

Wow! It has been a long time since I’ve been on here posting anything! We have been so busy over here with school and extracurriculars not sure where they time has gone. But this week my students are doing one of my most favorite units on masks and we are really pushing the edges here. I decided I’d experiment along side them and transformed and old mask model I did years ago into a relief sculpture with plaster and a fresco like approach to painting it with watercolor on wet plaster. This has been such a fun start to this process and I’m anxious to see what it will evolve into in the end. It has also been fun getting to create alongside my students…something I don’t seem to get to do very often…but should do more! So here’s where I am with this so far. Wanting to incorporate hands into this as well, but still working out a few kinks. If anyone has made a plaster mold of their hand before and would like to share suggestions…I’m all ears!!!
Oops, just realized I forgot to snap a final shot before I left!

04/13/2025

Our burning wood art experiment

04/13/2025

It’s been quite a while since I’ve posted here school has taken precedent to time and creativity! However, my son and I embarked upon a little creative experimenting today. He found a plank and some old fence wood at the tree dump and made this really cool design. We talked about possibly burning the edges with a torch… But we didn’t have one so we used matches instead and it was quite the fun process. I’ll post a video in a minute. But now he needs to decide where to go with it from here. Burn more of the lighter space to make a “halo“ around the cross, maybe engrave a scripture verse? Or add color and create a Calvary scene? Maybe some more wood burning on the cross itself? Leave it as is? These were our mock up sketches.
Weigh in and let us know what you would like to see him do.

02/02/2025

Name some other things you have painted with that weren’t a paint brush…

07/15/2024

My Painting a Day Challenge kinda got put on hold for vacation, but made myself get back into it on the car ride to a family bbq 3hrs away as I paint my position in the car - The Car Ride.
I feel it’s ok to stop, but not forever. Small breaks make the longing to start again build. Long stops, well, just make me quit and get crabby from the pent up need to create often without me realizing it. So it’s best to get back to it, before I get crabby…even if it isn’t great and needs a lot of value work still.

06/23/2024

Day 6: A Painting A Day Challenge - FOCUS: space, “the final frontier”! (Ok, not really my final, but couldn’t help it). Tractor Pull Buddies.
I so enjoyed getting to watch these gals greet each other, share photos, sandwiches, and news as they watched their men folk do their tractor pull thing. It was heartwarming to watch.
The painting challenge was focusing on creating the illusion of space in the 2-D picture plane using things like Atmospheric perspective, linear perspective, etc.
I did not finish and probably didn’t even meet the objectives for the challenge exactly, but that’s ok. Was at a tractor pull with my hubs, son, and dog and was just trying to capture a few scenes that took the whole environment in while still creating a still life…that eventually morphed into a loose portrait. I have a few other images floating in my mind for a series of these in the similar setting…now to make it happen! That’s what a sketchbook is for anyway, isn’t it? Holding ideas and inspiration and experimenting?

I included my son’s two pieces he did in here too 🙂

06/21/2024

Day 5: A Painting A Day Challenge- First Day of Summer - seemed appropriate to be at the pool and paint on this early summer solstice.

It is bittersweet for me seeing my son be able to go off on his own in the pool and play with his friends without my assistance. It was fun getting to watch him interact with the water and his friends, and it allowed me time to make myself paint. Every time I felt hot enough to think about getting in, the sun went behind the clouds and the wind would blow and I would be fine with staying on deck engrossed in capturing the shapes, forms and colors of the scene before me! Had meant to include a lifeguain there, but got too caught up in the spiraling nature of the slide and the stairs (not painted yet).

I may never be a true watercolor artist, but I’m kind of ok with that. I am finding that I work my watercolors much more like oil or acrylic paint, and a little bit like a sculptor chiseling out the shapes and forms on the flat surface with color and lifting away unwanted bits.

Today’s focus was on form using value and proportion to create a composition. I think I was actually supposed to include 3-4 objects, but I suppose in a way I kind of was. I’m being made aware again of how even when focusing on just one element or principle, how they all really come into play together. To create form, you must have an understanding of shape and space and proportion and value and see them all working together magically to create that illusion of three dimensionality.

While I didn’t quite finish it in the roughly two hours I had, it feels like it is off to a pretty good start - and most importantly, I painted and sketched!I had fun! I created! I arted! And socialized a bit too!

06/19/2024

Day 4: A Painting A Day Challenge
Thoughts for a title?
Been a long time since I’ve painted reflective and transparent objects and never in watercolor, so I’m feeling pretty good about how this one turned out. Watercolor is not my forte and ellipses have always both intrigued and challenged me, but I’m playing and experimenting. I see the errors, yes, but also the strong points. I just keep reminding myself, I am not a camera and it all perhaps adds to the human nature of it all and the most important part was…I Arted! I saw! I played! I learned!
My focus this time was on repeating shapes and trying to capture the essence of glass and my soaking leftover watercolor oval pans in them. And yes, I used the liquified watercolor in the jars in this painting.
I want to paint more glass now!

06/18/2024

Day 3 of A Painting A Day challenge:
This one was purely process and exploration of the homemade liquid watercolors I made from old markers to see what they could do…I’m thinking I should bring in some black pen and ink accents into this. What do you see?