spotsandstripes

Dripping with Paint

Try it with your kids. Via The Crafty Crow.

20x200 Print: Sugarcoat

Prints of Michelle Hinebrook's painting Sugarcoat, meant to evoke the taste of candy, are available on 20x200 for only 20 bucks. If you've got a little kid who's a fan of candy and of the colour pink, it would be pretty on the wall in her (or his) room.

Psanky Psanky Easter Eggs

Apparently the full colour spectrum set is sold out but you can still get sets of four in pink, green, orange, and blue at the Psanky Psanky etsy shop. What a gorgeous heirloom.

Ilegal Rainbows

See it? There's a "rainbow warrior" in Albuquerque. Read about him or her on aesthetics of joy.

Vintage Dot Paint Set

Who wouldn't be inspired by this watercolor set?

The Heidelberg Project

The Dotty-Wotty house, part of the Heidelberg Project, an outdoor art installation project in an inner-city neighbourhood in Detroit, Michigan, created by artist Tyree Guyton, whose trademark is the dot. Neighbourhood children helped him to paint abandoned houses in the area.

Beth Fuller's Sixth Grade Art Class

Just gorgeous. Every child needs an art teacher like Beth (who is also the "chief scribbler" for Brain, Child.)

Windshield Rainbow

By artist Helmut Smits.

Damien Hirst's Spot Paintings and How to Dot It Yourself

Famed conceptual artist and provocateur Damien Hirst has said of his spot paintings: "I only ever made five... myself ... And my spots I painted are shite. ... The best person who ever painted spots for me was Rachel. She's brilliant. Absolutely fucking brilliant. The best spot painting you can have by me is one painted by Rachel." Rachel Howard was one of his assistants. There are around 1000 "Hirst" spot paintings, the first of which was painted directly onto a gallery wall, and they are supposedly popular in Japan and Korea. Two essential books by Hirst are On the Way to Work and I Want to Spend the Rest of My Life Everywhere, with Everyone, One to One, Always, Forever, Now. Nice sentiment.

Here's a do-it-yourself (dot-it-yourself?) version:

Those circles were cut out of paper and applied with double-stick tape. The process took a couple of hours -- I suggest going one better and using stickers.