Thursday, September 27, 2018

One Boy's Trash is Another Boy's Treasure #craft #art #paint #mixedmedia

My next art | craft post is up on ParentSavvy. I'm really excited to share the steps of this one.


There are 3 main things you need for this:

  1. Heavy Structure Gel
  2. A Masonite Canvas
  3. Light Weight Junk You Will Turn to Treasure

I was so happy! My work gave me a $5 coupon to use at Blick Art Supplies. I found Winsor & Newton Heavy Structure Gel on clearance. It was $7. I had my teacher's discount on top of that. It was pennies.


We had canvas laying around.


Isaak has a lot of of junk that he wanted to turn to treasure. 

Screens


Washers and Other Things


Rubber Bits and Rusted Metal


Rainbow Loom - Not Really Junk, but We Used Them
We Also Used String


A Spoon to Apply the Medium, a Pen or Something to Draw on the Junk to Cut Them Out, Scissors to Cut the Junk


You May Use a Paint Brush, or Foam Brush (Optional)


You May Use Paint or Sand (Optional)


Turning the Trash to Treasure

Figure out what you want to stand out, how things will look on the canvas, and if there's any add on things you'll use before you get started.


We kind of had it figured out here. We decided to make the white mesh the biggest thing on the page, also known as the focal point.


Using Heavy Structure Gel:

Once it was all laid out we started to use the gel. Important use something you can wipe off to apply it. We used a spoon. You can use a fork, a palette knife, or even a plastic comb if you wanted to. It holds it's shape really well, so a fork or comb might be interesting. You'll get lots of lines.


Apply it to build it up on things that have recessed areas. Everything else can just be stuck into it.





We lifted the screen up to re position it. The gel held the texture! It dries a lot faster than I thought. Not so fast that you can't re position things, but I was expecting hours of drying time because it's thick. Nope! More like 20 min. When it dries, things are down for good!






We could have stopped here:

The little circles are Rainbow Looms.


But decided it needed something that would make one thing travel to something else. I told Isaak, "It looks like a Thomas train set with all the buildings, but no track.

We added string:



We could have stopped here:


We Chose to Paint it!

Gold and Silver went on! Isaak sprinkled sand in the wet paint in areas.


Blobs of silver paint went inside the Rainbow Loom circles.


It's Finished!

I would have worked on it more to add reds and teals to enhance the metal look, but Isaak hit his limit. I think it looks cool. Seriously a monkey could have done it with us.


It can go vertical or horizontal. Which way would you put it?


3 comments:

Theresa Mahoney said...

What a fun piece of art! I bet he really enjoyed turning his junk into a masterpiece. I think it looks good both ways. I guess it would just depend on what area I was hanging it on before deciding on vertical or horizontal.

~ Noelle said...

I like horizontal.. made me think of a beach scene.... no clue why

mail4rosey said...

So that came out really cool. I like it a lot!

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