Art Project

Morning, All!!!

How's everyone today??

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This week I am working on getting an art project ready to do with Miss Brenna's class. Each year, her school has their annual fund raising fair and has a silent auction and then a live auction. Each grade puts in an art project (done with the art teacher) in the live auction. The submissions are lovely works, such as every child from say, the third grade, drawing flowers and then those flowers get decoupaged onto a table. It's quite a feat to get it done. Anywho, I get to work with the Special Ed class! It is a great time to work with these kids. All boundaries are tossed aside. Lots of conversation ensues. We are doing "Recycled Mosaic Kitchen Art." It is a project I found at Lilblueboo's website. I spent most of Friday cutting various cardboard boxes:

I invested in a rotary cutter and mat. How come no one told me about these things??? They are amazing tools!

Box cutters are good, too, but wow. 

So, all in all it took maybe three hours to cut enough squares for the kids to fit them onto three frames.

Did I mention the frames? Well...Brenna's teacher is married to a very talented man who happens to be a carpenter. Instead of having to order cradled gesso board, he made us three of these beautiful frames in a 10x30 size and I coated them with gesso.

Can you say, "Yahoo!"?

It will be fun to see how the kids place all the squares.

Miss Ashley from lilblueboo suggest coating it with Krylon Triple Thick Glaze. Has anyone seen this? Used it? I will have to start looking for it...And then tape off the frame so I don't get spray on it. Any other suggestions for finishing it off other than a spray?

My neck and back have recovered nicely from cutting...

Have a great day!!