They thought they were too grown up for potato printing. So I showed them Melissa's post and they agreed just to humour me. But I think we all know who had the most fun.
There will be no craft refuseniks around my kitchen table!
Print boys, or nobody gets any dinner.
Those prints have a touch of "Hirst" about them x
Posted by: lucy | 25 August 2009 at 00:48
They're marvelous!
Posted by: Anna - Three Sneaky Bugs | 25 August 2009 at 03:05
I am disappointed - no garlands!
Posted by: Alice C | 25 August 2009 at 07:05
These are very very easy on the eye. The top one reminds me of the background in 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar'. I have an itch to do this now.
Posted by: Emma | 25 August 2009 at 07:48
What fabulous prints!
I used to nanny for a little one who was most definitely a 'craft refusenik'. It was so disappointing, as I so wanted to do the crafts myself...
K x
Posted by: kristina | 25 August 2009 at 08:03
Wonderful. They look like stained glass.
Posted by: Gina | 25 August 2009 at 08:12
Gorgeous. We haven't done this for ages - and we've just harvested more potatoes than I can eat in a lifetime ...
Posted by: dottycookie | 25 August 2009 at 08:24
Fantastic! I wonder how well my children will manage to ruin that idea.
Posted by: The Coffee Lady | 25 August 2009 at 08:37
Beautiful. The top one looks like boiled sweets in a jar.
Lisa x
Posted by: Lisa | 25 August 2009 at 09:08
Love them - great colour and repetition.
Posted by: Pebbledash | 25 August 2009 at 09:38
Wow! I agree with Gina ~ these prints look just like stained glass! Stained potato ~ extraordinarily beautiful. And I have three potatoes in my crisper right now, just longing for the chance to be transformed into the newest form of renaissance art . . .
Posted by: Kari of Writing Up A Storm | 25 August 2009 at 12:00
They're wonderful! My Minx is in the middle of a pompom making frenzy :)
xxx
Posted by: Lesley | 25 August 2009 at 15:15
Hahaha -- I love the withholding dinner technique! Those are really cool!
Posted by: Thimbleanna | 25 August 2009 at 18:49
I agree with Emma - I instantly thought "hungry caterpillar" when I saw your prints! Love them! Lucy x :o)
Posted by: Lucy Locket-Pocket | 25 August 2009 at 19:02
Ha! Love your totalitarian approach to crafting. You know they loved it! :0)
Posted by: Michelle | 25 August 2009 at 21:31
Great pictures, would look good as wrapping paper.
Posted by: Thimbleina | 26 August 2009 at 07:46
They're lovely! Will have to try it here sometime. Ax
Posted by: little pink room | 26 August 2009 at 12:31
This is wonderful. I too have just done my first potato stamping. Airplanes and clouds. You would have thought I would have done this before as a child, sadly, no.
Posted by: urban craft | 26 August 2009 at 22:11
they look great. glad they had fun.
Posted by: Hena Tayeb | 26 August 2009 at 22:42
i love them, ali!
and i love your totalitarian approach to crafts. i am just the same way.
Posted by: melissa | 27 August 2009 at 01:13
these are beautiful... i can just imagine them as a fabric print too! so vivid and colorful.
Posted by: amisha | 28 August 2009 at 05:15
they are really beautiful, i love them!
Posted by: painted fish studio | 30 August 2009 at 00:26
Beautiful! ANd I would totally buy one of these on etsy. I've got a refusenik at home. One of his rare works of art hangs on my family room wall and i think it'll be there forever as a one-and-only.
Posted by: Jen | 02 September 2009 at 14:56
I would totally buy that as a Spoonflower print!
We're going to be doing ourselves some apple printing this evening--perhaps we'll do potatoes tomorrow!
Posted by: Pumpkinbear | 02 October 2009 at 22:18
Beautiful! I just found what we are going to do on the canvases we found at the art store. The top one, at first glance, looked like those glass pebbles you get at the dollar store or craft shops.
Posted by: Sherry | 05 October 2009 at 15:50
Effective idea but such as waste of food in a world where 1/3 children don't have 3 meals a day.
Posted by: nay | 30 May 2010 at 01:26
May I ask what kind of paint you use for a craft such as this? Love the colours.
Posted by: Heather | 10 July 2010 at 22:00
Love how the prints turned out!
Posted by: Michelle | 26 March 2011 at 00:44
They are very easy on the eyes. The above reminds me of the background Very Hungry Caterpillar. I have an itch to do this now.
Posted by: booklet printing | 05 April 2011 at 19:23