Gardening Tips part 3, Art Project

This Gardening Project is for persons 18 years or older!

 

Something to think about while planning your Spring Garden. Pumpkins are fun to grow! Did you know that you can create designs on them even before they are harvested? Here's an Art Project for you...

 

Yes, you can turn your Pumpkins into works of ART! After your pumpkin vines produce fruit you can draw on them with a permanent magic marker. Keep in mind that the fruit will come off of the vine super easily  :(

 

So I don't recommend trying to pick up the fruit to draw on it. Where it lays you can carefully draw on the exposed side.  Its fun to write your name, create a design, etc... As the pumpkin grows the area with the magic marker writing produces scar tissue that grows over your writing/drawing. It essentially becomes apart of the pumpkin itself.  

 

The Pumpkins are for decorative use only! I don't recommend eating them!

 

If you try this....Contact Me and I'll tell you how to send Photo's of your Pumpkins to me...photo's of your pumpkins after they are fully grown and have been harvested!!! I would Love to see them, and add them to my Blog!

 

Have Fun!

 

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Abstract Art Project, Art Lesson

This Project is for persons 18 yrs or older!

Supplies needed:
8" x 10" or 9" x 12" Cardboard (or smaller)
crayons
metal spoon
black water based craft paint

First completely cover your cardboard with crayon. Think of an Abstract Design and lay the color on thick. Add a Rainbow of colors. Next, paint the entire work in black. Allow the paint several hours to dry. Next, using your spoon scrap off areas of the black paint. Careful not to remove your crayon color....we want that to show through. Think of an Abstract Design while scraping the black paint off......careful to not remove to much of the paint. ENJOY!

 

Art Lesson, Mixed Media Painting

This Project is for 18 yrs or older!

Supplies needed:
8" x 10" or 9" x 12" Cardboard (or smaller)
crayons
metal spoon
black water based craft paint (kids paint)

First completely cover your cardboard with crayon. Think of an Abstract Design and lay the color on thick. Add a Rainbow of colors. Next, paint the entire work in black. Allow the paint several hours to dry. Next, using your spoon scrap off areas of the black paint. Careful not to remove your crayon color....we want that to show through. Think of an Abstract Design while scraping the black paint off......careful to not remove to much of the paint. ENJOY!

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Art Lesson 101

This project is for persons 18 yrs or older!

Practice writing your first name in different writing styles.
Have Fun :)

Art Lesson, Mixed Media Art

This project is for adults 18 yrs or older!

Supplies needed:
8" x 10" or 9" x 12" sheet of cardboard
enough aluminum foil to completely cover the cardboard
Black water based craft paint
other assorted colors of craft paint
paper towel
paint brush(s)
craft glue stick
rubber gloves

1st smash your aluminum foil into a ball. Then carefully unroll it...flattening it out...but leaving the wrinkles. Next completely cover the cardboard with your aluminum foil, and glue it into place. Now paint the aluminum foil completely black. Then using paper towels...rub off most of the black paint (while wearing your rubber gloves)....leaving the paint in the wrinkles and creases of the foil. Allow this to completely dry. The final step is to paint your masterpiece on top of the foil. Enjoy!

Art Lesson, Mixed Media Abstract Art

This project is for adults 18 yrs or older.

Supplies Needed...several pieces of 14" long string acrylic paints, or poster paint, or ink, or watercolors, white paper

Dip all but 2 inches of a 14" length of string into acrylic, poster paint, ink, or watercolor.

Lay it across a piece of white paper, leaving the "clean" part hang over the edge. Place another paper on top of the first one, and holding your hand on top of the paper and string, pull the string back and forth and then out. Repeat with other colors, if you wish. Be sure to use a clean string for each new color.

Enjoy!