My son & I found some broken willow branches during our morning walk. I showed him how flexible they were and told him about basket weaving. He wanted to bring the branches home, which I was fine with, yet I didn’t really want to attempt any complex weaving and was wracking my brain for simple craft ideas. Bing! Lightbulb moment. My daughter was asking to make a dreamcatcher for months, but we didn’t have any hoops. Here was my solution to both problems: we could weave the willow branches into simple loops and make dreamcatchers for all of us.
After watching SeaLemon’s “How to Make a Dreamcatcher” video, my son choose some thread, buttons and feathers from my stash and together we made him a dreamcatcher. My daughter made one for herself later that day with the minimal help from me. I’m still making one for myself as I complicated things by wanting to crochet the web.
I was joking that I’ll have to find something else to paint with my feather collection being depleted, but my daughter found a gorgeous multi-coloured feather and off I went painting few versions of it.
All feathers were painted with Winsor & Newton watercolour paints on Arches medium watercolour paper (10.5 x 15 cm)
I really, REALLY like those! And can’t wait to see yours, also. Lovely feathers and how nice to have an encouraging daughter!
Annie, thank you. I should listen to my kids more often and make things with them without worrying about making them the right way or perfect
Fabulous dream catchers and wonderful paintings.
Ruth, thank you
So gorgeous! How did you get those very fine lines in the bottom feather. Such exquisite detail!
Laura, thank you. The very fine lines were done with a tiny Rosemary & Co Kolinsky Sable Series 33 brush (3/0). Sometimes I feel that great tools make the painting almost itself.
It takes a great deal of talent also, I believe! Thanks for the tip! Very inspired by your work.