Last night we only had one young lady for youth and so we gathered at Jess's house and chilled out on the floor in front of Aladdin
(which I still know off by heart...) and decided to get crafty.
It's not something new to me, but sometimes it just strikes me just how effective a frame can be in
'legitimising' an arty creation. We illustrated this last night with what is probably one of the
simplest and easiest art projects EVER.
First - get some paper. A variety of scrap booking paper, or just one pattern, or you could use coloured paper or just whatever.
Second - Cut it into circles of varying imperfection.
Third - Glue the circles down on another piece of paper in a pattern
(however you like)
Fourth - Draw on a trunk and branches with any kind of pen you like. I used a regular old ball point.
Fifth - Now this is important.
Put it in a frame.
You can do lots of things with it.
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| Add little drawings of things or do whatever you want. I put smaller circles on top of some of the trees for variety and no one is surprised that I chose a red riding hood theme... Trees and Red Riding Hood... Predictable much? |
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| Our lovely ballerina with her creation. She used one pattern of paper and kept it simple and it looks AWESOME. |
Jess did one with the trees in a row and some of them overlapped so she got to use the always epic foam tape. I didn't get a photo, but it had a very cute little stick figure couple in it which totally WON. I didn't get a photo of Charlotte's one either - but I will update you with more alternatives on this
mega easy and therefore awesome art project.
UPDATE: Jess has posted some awesome pictures of her work on
her blog, so go check it out... along with the most
babe-a-licious photo of me evar...
ahem.
