create where and when you can

Ever since we've been house hunting, I have not been able to finish my art projects, or start any new ones. It's a bit disappointing, cause I'd done several city scenes and was close to finishing another one, and had even been commissioned by Andrew from Graffiti 2 to do a few of Mott Haven for him. I have not forgotten, and I will get them done as soon as we get settled in, but alas, life in transition means you put aside some things to get others done that have come into the "front burner".
The thing is, as an artist, not doing any kinda drawing or anything starts to affect my mental health, and my brain screams for some creativity.
Yesterday was Phoenix's birthday. To celebrate, we took him to the cemetery, which he'd been asking to go to for months. You can read more about that whole event on Fabio's blog.
Anyway, as suggested by Susan, we brought paper and crayons(pastels and charcoal are already packed) along to do some rubbings at the tomb stones.
That turned out to be a nice creative activity for the boys and I. (Fabio took photos) Because of this, I felt like a tiny part of my creative soul was satisfied.
Here are are rubbings and some photos(click on each to see it bigger)...

30 faces - art with my son

Yesterday would be the last day that Willik was home with the chicken pox, first, then with a terrible cough.
He'd been wanting to teach me a technique he learned at school in art class, so we attempted it.
It's called "drawing with scissors" and we had a lot of fun doing it. You can make it as realistic or abstract as one wants. And using different interesting papers would make it more special. For this particular application, we used construction paper, and it worked well.
Because I'm in the middle of my 30 faces, I naturally figured this would be a good day to "make" another face, and that I did. I cut a profile out.
The process is to cut any shape you want out of a piece of paper.
Have another 2 pieces of paper of the same size, but different colors/textures ready to go.
Once you cut, you then glue your "positive" image to one paper, and your "negative" to the other.
You end up with 2 versions of the piece. I chose to glue mine down as mirror images.
It was a lot of fun, and practicing with scissors is a great thing for any child! and artistic moms too!

Mine:

Willik's umbrella bird: