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Monday, December 7, 2015

How to make hanging globes

Materials:
Cereal Boxes
Scissors
Hot Glue Gun
Hot Glue Sticks
Clear Plastic Drinking Cups
Doilies
Miniature Figurines (Walmart or local dollar store)
Miniature Bells

Step 1: Trace your clear plastic cup onto a cereal box or other type of 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: Use scissors or other sharp object to make a small hole in the center of the clear cup.

Step 6: String a bell through hole of the cup and tie a knot at the top.

Step 7: Add hot glue to the rim of the cup

Step 8: Attach cardboard with miniature figurine to cup.

Step 8: Flip globe over and use hot glue to attach a pipe cleaner to the rim of the glass

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

Student Work Examples:

JMS Art Club

Thursday, December 3, 2015

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

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:

Monday, August 12, 2013

Contemporary Artist of the Week:

Map Painting of Fernando Vicente

Madrid-based Spanish artist Fernando Vicente uses maps for more than geographical purposes. For his Atlas series, the creative illustrator paints on old maps, transforming countries and whole continents into people, animals, and skulls. The collection of acrylic paint portraits applied and integrated into each map, similar to the work of Ed Fairburn, gives the lands a new sense of life.

While cartography can be seen as an art in its own right, Vicente manages to transform each informative sheet into an interpretive piece. The images he adds to the maps are translucent enough to recognize the underlying contours of nations and the separation between ocean and land while simultaneously appreciating the artist's ability to connect masses of land into one unified figure. His work presents an organic vision of the world, as though countries are not disconnected from one another and share a spirit guardian.

via mymodernmet

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