These valentines were made using a combination of papers from a gelatin printing workshop with Linda Branch Dunn, and some marbled paper from a marbling with shaving cream workshop (idea from Carol Hough) I did at home with the kids. I keep using the om or "aum" symbol, an ancient Sanskrit symbol signifying the universal divine, but on the darker valentine (printed with large bubble wrap no less), I accidentally inverted the symbol, but I still like it inverted and upside down. It's intriguing to me that it's no longer a particular symbol with a specific meaning, more an abstract shape with reference to ancient script.

My oldest (7) wanted to do a summer art camp this Summer, but instead I'm doing my own summer art camp at home with my children and my niece. So far we've done the paper marbling, a 3 part still life project with ink, watercolor and pastel, we've bought journals to decorate and fill and an indigo dying kit I can't wait to break into. There are more projects than time I'm afraid but we're all having fun and learning some art along the way. I'd like to expose them to more artists too, but I might have gone overboard with the Edouard Vuillard book. Any and all ideas are welcome!