Here we are again, continuing with the seasonal theme.
As I have mentioned before in the previous post, ‘Autumn leaves into something crafty!’ I will show you how to make a simple creation just by using white plastic spoons!
Having come across a load of plastic spoons, stored away and forgotten, they started to some what deteriorate and being that we are mainly working with recycling throw outs or re-inventing items into something else, ‘this came to mind’.
The spoon shapes naturally snapped off and they reminded me of leaves, hence trees came to mind and being its autumn, had a seasonal touch to it, so I thought hey how about making a ‘seasonal plastic spoon tree’
Our subject is Seasons and seasons remind me of changing trees as we move through the months. You may ask, but the spoons are white, they aren’t in colour how are we going to get around that?
Well you provide a background that portrays the seasons. Here we will use loads of coloured dots reflecting the atmosphere of that particular season.
This is a bit like the work of the artist George Seurat back in the early 1900’s whose work was on ‘POINTILLISM’ a technique used by applying two distinct colours in a dot form close to each other, they would blend together giving the illusion of another colour.
(below are 2 examples of Surat’s work.)
In this project we are looking at something similar, where dots are scattered randomly on a black background that will give the feel and texture that will capture that particular season.
For example, Spring I visualise, loads of pink and white dots. Summer, orange, yellow and green dots. Autumn, browns, rust, gold and red dots and Winter, shades of blue and white dots.
Do you see where I am coming from?
THIS IS WHAT WE DO!
Easy, with the white spoons you simply lay down the arms of the spoons to represent the branches of the tree and the spoon shape will be the leaves.
Once you have decided how the tree will look, you will need to do some gluing.
RESOURCES!
- Approx. 35 white plastic tea-spoons
- 1 A4 plastic wallet sleeve. (cut open into an A3 size) or A3 acetate sheet.
- 4 A3 black card.
- Hot wax.
- Acrylic paints, pink, white, shades of blue, browns, reds, greens, oranges yellow etc.
- A selection of garden leaves.
- PVA glue.
- A large piece of card bigger than A3. (to attache artwork on as a base.)
- Your fingers! (to do all the dots with.)