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Thursday, December 3, 2015

How to Make Snow Globes

This month during our Art Club meeting, we made some hanging globes and snow globes using easy to find materials. I will create another post on how to make the hanging globes.

How to make Snow Globes:

Materials:
Cereal Boxes
Snow (Mixture of Fine Salt and Extra Fine Glitter)
Scissors
Hot Glue Gun
Hot Glue Sticks
Clear Plastic Drinking Cups
Doilies
Miniature figurines (Walmart or local dollar store)

Step 1: Trace your clear plastic drinking cup onto a cereal box or other type of thin cardboard. We used M&M , Pasta, and Bisquick boxes.

Step 2: Cut out your circle(s)

Step 3: Glue doily to cardboard circle

Step 4: Use Hot Glue to attach a miniature figurine onto the center of your doily that has been glued to a cardboard circle.

Step 5: Pour salt and extra fine glitter into your clear plastic cup.

Step 6: Add hot glue to the rim of the cup.

Step 7: Attach cardboard with miniature figurine to cup.

Step 8: Flip snow globe over and attach pipe cleaner to the rim of the glass.

Congratulations, you are done! Now you can gift these to your family, friends, co-workers!

Student Work Examples:

JMS Art Club

Tuesday, December 1, 2015

Making Wearables from E-Waste

Artist, Cyrus Kabiru, is turning e-waste into wearables and art! I am in love with this idea. I see a new e-waste lesson plan in my future.

"Cyrus Kabiru. "Young World Inventors Lessons from Africa. N.p., n.d. Web 01 Dec. 2015

"Kenyan Artist digs Through Electronic Refuse and Found Metal to Create Dazzling Sculptural Eyewear." Colossal. N.p., July 2015. Web. 01 Dec. 2015

Friday, November 13, 2015

Re-purposed Dried up Acrylic paint & Laminate Tile Samples

Ever wonder what to do with dried up Acrylic paint? Well here's an idea, scoop out your old paint from the tray(s) cut it, roll it up, and wrap jewelry wire around it. You could also add beads for a touch more color. Voila! You now have some fun & unique charms for a bracelet, necklace, or a little something for a mixed media collage.

Re-purposed Dried Acrylic Paint
© Live Art, Breathe Art

Last year, Spare Parts donated a box full of Laminate Tile Samples (3.5"x5") to my art class and I had no clue what to do with them. This year I was determined to use them. So, in September I pulled them out and decided to introduce mixed media collage to my Art Club kids.

Step 1: Choose a Laminate Tile Sample

Laminate Tile Samples (3.5"x5")
© Live Art, Breathe Art

Step 2: Pull out all the art scraps you have stored.
Cardboard, knick knacks, scrap paper, magazine paper, old photos, fabric samples, etc. I keep a box of unwanted items for occasions such as this.

Scraps of "trash" (unwanted items) or left over stuff from previous projects
© Live Art, Breathe Art

Step 3: Let your Imagination Fly!

Step 4: Glue a magnet to the back and hang it in your locker, or on your refrigerator at home.

Examples of Student Work:

Sunday, October 25, 2015

Halloween 2015 - Evil Ash

This Halloween my husband and I will be celebrating our 6th wedding anniversary! Oh my, how time flies. For our anniversary we bought tickets to see Army of Darkness at Alamo Drafthouse on Halloween night. Since the movie falls on the same day as our anniversary and Halloween, we decided to dress up like the main characters from the movie. And so the challenge began.

About two and a half weeks ago, I started the construction on the helmet for my husband's costume using a roman helmet, cheap dollar store mask, cardboard, masking tape, newspaper, and a bag of bones.

Helmet:

two coats of primer ( Pro Art Premium Gesso Canvas Primer):

Toasted Marshmallow Paint (Apple Barrel Brand) from Wal-Mart:

© Claudia Peña-Martinez 2015

Finished helmet with a coat of brown and the bones with a brown acrylic wash to give it an aged look.

Constructing the armor: For the armor I relied mostly on studiocreations.com and their interpretation of Evil Ash's armor.
Studio Creations made their armor out of hard plastic. I decided on a cheaper route and made the armor out of cardboard and paper maché.

Right Shoulder Armor:

Left: Bicep Armor Right: Left Shoulder Armor

two coats of primer ( Pro Art Premium Gesso Canvas Primer):

Chain: Plastic "Pimp Chain" purchased from the Spirit Store to resemble the chain Evil Ash wore to hold his cape spray painted to match armor.

Forearm Armor: Kids Star Wars Costume Piece we found at Dollar Tree, spray painted to match armor.

Rib Cage Armor: Latex Skeleton Wings purchase from the Spirit Halloween Store.
We cut a section of the wings off and spray painted them.

Shirt: Target sales rack

Pants: Purchased at the Flea Market ($ 5.00)

The costume was finished only hours before I drove my husband to Creeping Beauty to get his special fx make-up done. Here is the result:

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Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Art Club makes Tote Bags from Old Tees!

This summer I attended Texas Public Radio's Art of Recycling event where Spare Parts was teaching the public how to re-purpose old tees. I loved this project so much that I decided it would be the perfect recycling project to kick off the first Art Club meeting of the 2015-2016 school year!

Art club spent the afternoon making cute tote bags from old tees that would have been otherwise discarded and we had a blast! I was excited to have a full classroom of over 26 students that filled the room with chatter, laughter, and best of all recycling!

You too can make your own tote bag by following the tutorial below:

Sunday, June 7, 2015

Go Fish! Revisited

Paper Mache' Fish using recycled materials created by Spring 2015 6th grade students at JMS.

Materials used:

Plastic Bottles
Cardboard
Masking Tape
Newspaper
Paper Mache' Glue (Elmer's glue mixed with water)

The Students were evaluated on:

craftsmanship (neatness & sturdiness)
aesthetics (demonstrates principles of art & elements of design such as line, shape, color, texture, etc.)

Student Work:

Thursday, May 14, 2015

Recycled Plastic Bottle Masks

For the first project of Spring semester cycle 2, I asked my 8th grade students to create an African Inspired Mask from Recycled Plastic Bottles. It was quite the challenge at first, as we found out that some of the laundry detergent bottles were difficult to cut with scissors. Fortunately, we had a Dremmel tool in class that worked like a charm. I have to say that I am very pleased with the results of this project.

Monday, April 20, 2015

Cardboard Everyday Objects!

After introducing my 7th grade art students to British Artist, Chris Gilmour, I challenged them to create everyday objects using cardboard. The students were stumped at first, but once they got the hang of it, they ran with the project, adding details to their objects that I was not expecting. I am so proud of my students!

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