Found Art Tuesday, April 29 2008: JOY
Tuesday, April 29, 2008 at 09:12AM The other day I took a look at the disaster that is my front yard. There are not any flowers and it's kind of plain, so I bought this seed mat, which is basically, paper with seeds on it, so you place it on the ground, cover it with more soil, water it, and TA-DAA! flowers start to grow.
Why is this different that just sprinkling seeds around? I don't really know, but, did you hear what I said? it is PAPER! with SEEDS how cool is that?!
And you can also write and paint on the paper, although I don't think it's the original intention for this product. Today, it will be turned into found art.
I drew a bird, the same one I drew last weekend, and since it took me a while to actually make it look like a bird, I had the great idea of tracing it into the seeds paper, then I used a black felt tip pen and colored it with watercolors. The caption reads, "A blue bird is JOY on wings" I've had this thing with blue birds lately. We also have a few of those red ones with the funny hair. I don't remember the name just now.
I made a video of the making of this one. In a few places the image is a little shaky, could be my new table, I have to work that out for the next video.
The music is again by Summer Pierre.
I will be leaving this today somewhere out there, lots of things to do today! see ya later, enjoy your Tuesday!
Reader Comments (4)
Your bird looked great by the way (both of them). I just love your idea of painting your found art piece on seeded paper! That's brilliant!
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