Cover It Up!

TAB artists use a lot of cardboard in the Sculpture Studio. Cardboard is a wonderful material to construct and build with. Let's look at how artists use art mediums to transform cardboard.

There are many ways to transform or change the appearance of cardboard, here are some ways you might try:

Try painting the cardboard in solid colors or patterns.  This can be done before or after you construct.

Before and After.  Notice the difference a little paint can make.   

Look at these painted animals.  They are painted. Which attachment technique did the artist use?

Here are a few more painted cardboard works.

What if you wrap cardboard in yarn?

What did this artist use to cover the cardboard? 

 If you guessed crayons or oil pastels, you got it.  Try coloring your cardboard art with crayons and oil pastels.

What if you transform the cardboard with BOTH crayons and paper?  

OR only paper.  Glue on paper! Make windows and doors.  Glue on scales and spines.

How about using marker!  Color the cardboard solid, fill it in completely or use Sharpie for details and pattern.

Mixed media means you used a variety of materials.  Look at how mixed media changed this cardboard.

Paper, paint, fabric, stickers, confetti, permanent marker, foil.

Not all cardboard is flat.  Can anyone guess what these colorful hearts started out as?  or this sea beast?  Both have been transformed. 

How will you transform cardboard?

Will you cover any writing or printing done at the factory that made the box?

Will the material you choose to cover the cardboard be part of your design?

Wet n' Stick Demonstration 

Unlocking Fibers 2025

 

Fibers studio

 This week we will be visiting the Fiber Arts Studio!

We will document what we know in our Artifact Books

There will be materials on your table to share. You can help each other learn some skills for the Fiber Arts Studio.

Fiber Arts is about making art with threads, papers,  fabrics (material like your clothes), and yarns. Some of the materials are natural.

 Yarn can naturally come from a ...

sheep...baa, baa

Sometimes artists make weavings...materials that go over and under each other.

What do you think this woven basket is made out of?

 You can make a weaving out of paper in Fiber Arts...you could even make your own paper for it!

  Today we will practice weaving a yarn over and under.

In Fiber Arts  we use thread to sew with. The thread is wound around a spool.

We will use needles ...notice one end is sharp and one end has a hole in it.

 We also use pins to hold material together.

We keep our pins in a pin cushion to keep the pointed ends sharp.

We will learn how to thread a needle.

We will practice learning how to make a knot at the end of our threads. 

 

We will pin two pieces of fabric together ...

and we will sew some running stitches.

Key Stage 2

When a person sews, sometimes they make a sketch of what they want and they create a pattern. 

 

You will learn the whip stitch.

What kinds of things would you like to create in the Fiber Art studio this year?