Showing posts with label recycle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label recycle. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 19, 2017

How I Repaint

I discovered that painting both sides of a piece of newspaper would stop it from getting dry and yellow and crinkly. My repainted pages and papers stay soft and flexible because the pInt seals the air out. I use regular household primer in a gallon can from Walmart or Home Depot. That's the starting place.
Once the primer is dry I use different bright acrylics. I use big brushes that are called chip brushes when I look for them in the paint section at Walmart. I can quickly brush on a layer of red or yellow or blue paint with a chip brush. 
Once I  have the base coat of the solid color on the fun can begin. Sometimes I'll lay a painted piece of paper over another painted piece. The wet paper transfers some of its paint to the second piece. Both pieces end up with irregular unplanned blotches of color or places where color lifted off. It creates an irregular surface with different places of visual interest.
Till next time..... Keep re-using!

Saturday, February 1, 2014

Art bowl/ Cat bowl

Soon to be published in Green craft magazine. The complete how to minus the lovely calico cat.

           PAPER MÂCHÉ BOWL

Sunday, November 25, 2012

Found Objects

Great Good Fortune

Cast off cast paper background
formed in a wooden square mold.
dried and cracking and beautiful.
Laid out objects
The mask of grocery store bags formed into a mold
from a face cast
laid out
with
a tin can lid
and
Great Good Fortune.
3 moons in a row.

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Saturday, November 17, 2012

Simple Shape Stamps




Stamped Treescape

Triangles for trees.
Loaded up with paint with a brush.
Stamped in a row.
On a piece of painted newspaper.


Stamped Triangle Trees

The same triangle tree shape.
Stamped on a different piece of painted newspaper.
Another triangle treescape.




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Sunday, August 19, 2012

Trout Continued

Collage Trial

Laying out the parts to figure out
the puzzle....
This fish
with circles, stars and feathers....
the beginning
of collage




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Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Salvage Ballarina


Golden Girl
An idea for three demensional work using the trusty glue gun.
The form was made with a hot melt glue gun
 just loosely moving the hot glue on a piece of foam board.
 After it was dry (pretty quickly) I pulled it off the backing and used
 a plastic grocery bag to form her ballerina skirt. I had some words and wing like things
in hot melt glue hanging around so
 used them to accessorize
 this version of the Salvage Ballarina.
 Used pink ribbon around her bodice and head to add more texture and some slight color,
No face on this one but thinking of adding a photo to her face to create her as some one......

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