Thursday, November 19, 2009

Under Your Kitchen Sink


What's under your kitchen sink?

Here's what I found under mine -
some new art tools!

The flat kitchen sponge became a tool very similar to this one at Let's Explore.
I also used a rubber band to hold a piece of this sponge to a baby food jar for stamping (the sponge has patterns as you can see from the photo and I was curious to see how it would show up on paper).


Some tin foil was scrunched to make a stamper.



 These are mesh bags in which oranges often come.  I bunched it up and added a rubber band to hold it together.
 
The last tool shown here is a popsicle stick with a piece of scouring sponge attached by a rubber band.


Here's the resulting effect.

The cut up flat sponge.

 A cube wrapped in tin foil (to protect against paint) and then wrapped in bubble wrap.
 
 The foil stamper.


 The scouring sponge on a stick (think "scritchy scratchy" strokes).
 
The mesh bag.


Her masterpiece using the tools.



The artist at work (after playing with the new tools, she just wanted to use the sponge roller).




12 comments:

  1. Super cool re purposing ideas. Thanks for sharing!

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  2. Very creative. Bear always uses so many colors.

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  3. Such neat ideas. You were so creative in coming up with these tools. I am always on the lookout for new tools to use when painting and I will certainly be more creative when coming up with future ideas after seeing your post. Such a beautfiul masterpiece was created.

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  4. GREAT ideas!!! you can do so many things with everyday items!!

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  5. Love the bubblewrap idea! Will def give that a try this weekend. Very creative.

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  6. Brilliant ideas. I love the the use of bubblewrap. Will have to give that a go this rainy weekend!

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  7. I love this idea! Very fun and a great way to reuse things you already have!

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  8. Super fun ! And it makes great Art.

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  9. Those are some great ideas! You've inspired me to try to make some similar art tools.

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  10. I love all of these creative and unusual painting utensils! This is something M would definitely enjoy! Looks like Bear had fun and her artwork is awesome!

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