April showers, Rainbows & Flowers

April is a kaleidoscope of chaos and colour 🌦️🌸

One moment it’s dramatic downpours and stinging hail rattling the windows, the next it’s golden sunshine lighting up dancing daffodils and tulips. Tree blossoms swirl through the air, birds cling to branches in the breeze, and the ground becomes a playground of puddles reflecting radiant rainbows.

Rainbow in Spring - 2016. Taken by Josh Smith. Source joshsmithphotography

As Easter approaches, the season shifts into celebration—flowers in bonnets, baskets, and bright parades.

Participants gathering outside St. Patrick's Cathedral during the Easter Bonnet Parade, April 2025, New York City. Source wwd.com

Wild, wet, and wonderful… this month reminds us that after every storm comes something beautiful.

Art Inspiration for this week;

🎨 Create artwork with April showers - such as an umbrella silhouette on a colourful background, or raindrop resist painting using white crayons and paint over with watercolours to reveal the drops

🎨 Rainbow-inspired art – create a collage with coloured tissue paper or use soft pastels and blend the layers on a dark background

🎨 Spring flower-themed art – draw detailed spring flower studies of tulips or maybe apple tree blossoms; these could be petals swirling in the breeze. Maybe use fingerprint stamps for petals

🎨 Combine the chaos – paint a landscape scene with rain, rainbows, moody skies, sunbeams and spring flowers; or Rain Boots with Flowers, draw or paint Wellington boots filled with bright spring flowers.

🎨 Make an easter artwork, as it’s the Easter Bank Holiday, include some flowers.

It will be a great evening of creativity! See you all soon. Wednesday evening, 7:30 pm UK time. Please join us on link-tree select All4Art https://linktr.ee/all4inclusion