spring arts & crafts
I went to the dollar store the other day and passed by the silly cheap school supply section. I was inspired by the flimsy posterboard to take up a little art project. So I bought a couple sheets, some glue sticks and a packet of paster paper and started planning out my project.
Now admittedly, my plans were a blatant rip-off of some art I had seen at the Seattle Center several years ago, but I really liked it and I guess that excuses my actions.
my project: a cherry blossom tree made out of cut/ripped paper.
sketch
I sketched out my idea of the finished image, an absurdly twisted rendition of a tree trunk and branches w/ blossoms.
transfer design…
I then roughly sketched the design onto my piece of poster board.
I shredded pieces of browd paper and started gluing them to my posterboard in the shape of the trunk.â
I then cut out several small pink circles (some I cut into the shape of the blossoms that they will all eventually be) and planned out where I wanted them to be when I finish.â
That’s as far as I got. I hadplans to do a background scenery out of cut paper as well, but was kind of blocked. I soon realized taht I probably should have planned out a background before creating my tree. Live and learn. Maybe I’ll do some watercolor-like additions, but that would ruin the cut paper theme. I wish I had some very sheer pnk tissue paper, but it’s not likely to happen. I may take my tracing paper and give it a slight pink wash.
anywhoooo… this is the status update, as promised.
future updates wil be forthcoming, unless I flake out and forget about this project.
