Let Your Dreams Take Flight

 "Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up."

-Pablo Picasso

My third week of visual arts projects, I chose Found Art. I wasn't really sure what found art was, so I started this project by Googling found art. What I learned was that found art is art created from objects that you find and usually isn't considered to be art. I decided I wanted to use a bucket of buttons I had to create something beautiful.

I decided I wanted to create a hot air balloon and incorporate the quote "Let your dreams take flight." I took a painted burlap canvas and dumped out my bucket of buttons on the ground. I started grabbing buttons to create the outline of the hot air balloon. Once I was happy with the way the outline was, I hot glued down all of the buttons. From there I started adding more buttons to fill in the space. Once my hot air balloon was done, I had to figure out how I was going to create my basket. I knew I wanted to use string to weave the basket, but I had no idea on what to use to hold the string. I found some push pins in my drawer and decided to try those out. I stuck all the pins in and decided that they were perfect! I flipped the canvas over, cut down the tips of the push pins, and added hot glue around them. I didn't want the push pins to accidentally poke me, so I made sure the ends of the push pins were coated with hot glue. This made them much less pointy. Once I was done with the push pins, I grabbed some orange string and started wrapping it around the push pins until I was happy with the way it looked. I then took my pencil and wrote out "Let your dreams take flight" onto the canvas. I took a light blue and a green paint and mixed the two colors together to create a turquoise kind of color. I used this color to paint the quote onto the canvas.

Overall, I am very happy with my art project! I think it turned out much better than I thought it was originally going to. I absolutely love the buttons that I chose to use on the hot air balloon. Originally, I was going to use buttons that were completely flat, but I saw that some of the coolest buttons I had were not flat. I knew that I had to have those on my hot air balloon, so I made them worked. I am glad that I did. I think the unique buttons helped give my hot air balloon more character. 

"I Found Art" by Lillian Peel

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