Lady of 'The Arts'

5.2.12

January: Moments

I used to be really good about posting a Friday: This Moment .

Since the advent of Instagram, I find myself posting several 'moment' that I want to cherish and remember. For those of you who Instagram I am under ladyofthearts.

I've decided to start a monthly series here at Lady Of The Arts featuring monthly moments.

These are our January Moments

2.2.12

I hate single use plastics. I took a pledge to limit my single use plastic and Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and Refuse. Unfortunately there are still some single use plastics that I haven't gotten out of my life. I save a lot of household items to use for our crafting so I've been saving those little plastic containers from our strawberries, blueberries and fresh figs.

Check out these cute boxes we made- They are sturdy and fulfill the motto of using the single use plastics more then once.

We used recycled paper from the 99 cent store and newspaper, white glue, paint brushes and plastic containers.

We cut the paper in strips and made a milk like liquid by mixing one part glue to four parts warm water

And we wrapped the plastic containers in paper

It took a few days for them to thoroughly dry and once they did we were ready for the second part-

Using Mod Podge, paint brushes and tissue paper we ripped up the tissue paper and glued it on.

We tried to seal all the edges and over lap colors to create new ones-

The results are glossy, sturdy reusable boxes- that would make cute gifts.

Questions to consider while creating:

What materials are we using? Where do they come from? What is it made of?

Is this recycled art? Why?

I took this opportunity to go over the concept of Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and Refuse.

What colors are we using? Are you making a pattern?

What are warm colors? Cool colors?

What materials are we reusing and what materials are new?

Do you have any creative uses for grocery store single use plastic containers?

1.2.12

Artist: David Cole

We are big Lego fans in this house. The boys have tons of Lego, much of it mine from when I was a kid or from my cousins who are now both in college. It is a monthly event to take photos and submit them to Lego Magazine for consideration. The monkeys have yet to be featured but we'll keep on trying.

These taxidermy animal Lego kits by artist Davide Cole are a clever and inevitable art medium for modern artist. I have featured Lego as an art medium before, most notably with the Lego Concentration Camp kits by a Polish artist Zbigniew Libera. Check out David Cole's blog and work where he gives an honest account of his creative process.

Here is the NYT article about David Cole and his Lego Kits.