Halloween pumpkins #artistmummy

Carving tips:
Ice cream scoop is very good to get the insides out.
Remember you don’t have to cut every shape fully through.
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#kirsteenart
www.kirsteen.art

Here is the web site where you can see my artwork Kirsteen.Art

I have launched a new website to view, like, share and buy my art!

See it here:
https://www.kirsteen.art

Original artwork by Kirsteen Lyons-Benson (BA Hons)
Mixed media on paper.

Kirsteen Lyons is the child of two artists who met at Glasgow art school in the sixties, got married, and fled the city to a remote Scottish island, to live on a beach, in a tent, with two kittens and a chest of drawers.

Growing up in a craft pottery, and later a cottage in the woods, Kirsteen planned to rebel, and have central heating and breakdown cover when she grew up!

Grow up she did, and studied textile design, not fine art (more rebellion). She did very well at university winning two prestigious competitions and getting a job with Muraspec (a wallpaper manufacturer) straight out of uni, it was new product development, so she went from there to other innovation companies,
and tried all sorts of middle class ideas out, including paying a mortgage, and working in PR, but soon found her parents were correct - they are very overrated ideas.

Kirsteen tried selling paintings on line, London markets, starting and running a craft fair, starting a gallery and pottery, starting and running a face painting business, and finally returned to textile design to freelance from home, and be mum to a daughter and a son.

After designing fashion fabrics for Amanda Kelly Design Studios for a few years, she has recently made the switch back to interior fabrics and wallpaper and signed with an established and prestigious studio in Europe.

She has now fully come to terms with her hippy origins and feels she belongs in middle class suburban England like a Bengal tiger belongs on a water slide! For this reason Kirsteen spent the last two years travelling Spain, France and Portugal on a camper van!

Kirsteen creates original paintings inspired by nature and travel. She has painted and designed all her life, at no time is she more herself than with brush in hand, or a sticky juice carton and shoes belonging to her kids! 😂💙🎨✏️

Contact info:
Kirsteen Lyons (BA Hons)
+44 7799201417
kirsteenann@gmail.com
Facebook:
https://m.facebook.com/KirsteenBenson
Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/artdreamsgallery

Youtube:
https://m.youtube.com/user/kirsteenartwork/videos

Blogs:

Art:
http://createadrawingaday.blogspot.co.uk

Textile design:
http://enchantedtextiledesign.blogspot.co.uk

Read about my travel and some artwork:
http://feelcreaterepeat.blogspot.com

Kids art projects:
http://artistmummy.blogspot.co.uk

New blog: Feel. Create.Repeat. By Kirsteen Lyons.

If you like what you see on this blog, you can find more current work and ideas by Kirsteen Lyons at:

https://feelcreaterepeat.blogspot.co.uk

Easy butterfly mobile and paper bead necklaces

This is my blog where I share art ideas i do with my kids so other parents can use them. We hope you find something you would like to try.

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First we have easy butterfly mobiles then paper bead necklaces.

Necklaces

Self hardening clay pots, decorated with treasure gold and bunting!

This is my blog where I share children's art ideas, so other parents can use them. We use sed self hardening clay to make little pots with lids. We let them dry a week and then polished them with treasure gold.
We also made bunting from a craft kit, I have a design degree and many years experience teaching children's art and craft but I'm not above using kits! They make doing craft with kids easy, parenting is busy business, I'm all for some easy.
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Pirate treasure maps, with wax seal and ribbon.

This is my blog where I share children's art ideas, so if other parents want to do art with their kids you can use our ideas. I hope it helps you. #artistmummy

We have been making pirate treasure maps with wax seal and ribbon, also the come in a postal tube to add to the feel, and give them something else to decorate!

We drew maps, ripped the edges, stained them with strong black coffee and let them dry. While they dried we decorated the tubes with stickers and our names. Then I burned some edges and used a candle and a foreign coin to make wax seals and stuck on ribbon. We tied them up with more ribbon and put them in tubes, the kids are still playing pirates!

Tissue paper bowls - fill them with chocolate for Granny's birthday

This is my blog where I share children's art ideas. I hope it's useful. Here is how we made tissue paper bowls.