Tissue Paper Art

This was a project that I did in my Arts Integration class at UNI.  It turned out a lot better than I had expected and was super excited about it.

Here are the steps to do this project.  It's very easy and would be able to do it with younger kids at home.

1.  Take a variety of colors of tissue paper.

2.  Paint the tissue paper with different colors of paint, overlap the colors and mix them together.

3.  Allow tissue paper to dry overnight.

4.  Take dried tissue paper and cut out variety of shapes for whatever you want to make.

5.  Glue shapes onto a white piece of paper into whatever shape you want.

6.  Allow to dry and hang up on the fridge or wall.

Canvas Art

After reading the Harry Potter series again I was feeling a little bit down about it all ending.  I wanted to create a piece of artwork that would commemorate my favorite quote from all the books.  This tutorial is very similar to the crayon art canvas without the crayons.

Below are directions to recreate this project: 

1. Paint the background any color of your choosing with acrylic paint and let dry.  I used a variety of colors in a diagonal pattern because I was curious to see what it would look like.

3.  Once the paint has dried place letter stickers over the background where you want your text to be.

4.  Paint over the stickers and the background with black acrylic paint (or whatever color you choose).  I chose black because it covered up the paint and I thought the colors would show up better.

5.  After the black has dried remove letter stickers.  I

6.  Spray the canvas with a waterproof sealer.

7.  Hang on the wall and enjoy!

Here is another example that I tried with an apple background instead of the rainbow background.

This was made for my cooperating teacher,  I used an actual apple as a stamp for the background.  Then I took stencils and stenciled each letter of the quote onto the canvas using a permanent marker.

Canvas Crayon Art

This post is an about different canvas art that I have tried.

This was a different approach to crayon art that I decided to try. 

Below are directions to recreate this project: 

1. Glue on the crayons (I used cheap dollar store crayons they work just as well as Crayola) to the top part of the canvas.

2.  Under the crayons paint the background any color of your choosing with acrylic paint and let dry.  I used purple because it's my favorite :)

3.  Once the paint has dried place letter stickers over the background where you want your text to be.

4.  Paint over the stickers and the background with black acrylic paint (or whatever color you choose).  I chose black because it covered up the paint and I thought the crayon would show up better.

5.  After black paint has dried start melting the crayon with the blow dryer.  I just followed a tutorial I found online, it recommended using the blow dryer on low heat I did it on high which caused the splatter effect instead of the nice drip you see on most of them.

6.  After the crayon has hardened remove letter stickers.  I had problems with this when I pulled the sticker up it wanted to pull the entire line of crayon as well so I used an exacto knife to help me without pulling off all of the crayon.  

7.  Spray the canvas with a waterproof sealer.

8.  Hang on the wall and enjoy!