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Yesterday I showed you how to make two different egg designs inspired by contemporary arts and here are two more!
SUPPLIES:
- Acrylic craft paint in a variety of colors, including black and gold
- Small soft paint brushes
- Mod Podge Gloss or similar sealer
- Plate – For a paint palette
- Wax paper
- Cereal or similar box
- Scissors
- Gold paint marker
- Cup of water and paper towels – To wash the brushes
Roy Lichtenstein – His comic book inspired pop art is a great way to incorporate graphic artwork onto a plastic egg. Looking through his artwork, I noticed yellow, white highlights, black lines, and black dots are commonly used, so I chose to incorporate those for this yellow egg.
- With a fine paint brush and white paint, create an oval on a top side, making sure it’s even. This will be a highlight, as if a light source was coming from that top side. Let dry.
- With a fine paint brush and black, create a long oval on the opposite bottom side, making sure it’s even. This will be the shadow, opposite the highlight. Let dry.
- With a fine paint brush and black, outline the white oval. Let dry.
- Using the handle end and black, create even dots that curve along the egg shape. Let dry.
- With a fine paint brush and black, create straight lines around the shadow area, leaving even spaces of yellow. This gives the effect of a gradient shadow and more comic book details. Let dry.
- With a flat paint brush and Mod Podge Gloss, carefully seal the artwork, making sure no paint shifts around.
Peter Max – His artwork is evocative of the psychedelic 60s culture. Going with the psychedelic theme, I used curving shapes and lines. Cosmic, radiating lines, and gradation would also evoke his work. I used a bright green egg, blue, turquoise, purple, lilac, and green paints.
- Using a fine paint brush and blue, paint a curving long shape that goes from the top to the bottom, wrapping around the egg. Inside of that shape, use turquoise to paint a line butting up the 1st line. Repeat, alternating colors, until the shape is filled. Let dry.
- Using a fine paint brush, purple, and lilac paints, repeat this style painting on a different egg section, to fill in the egg more. Let dry.
- Using a fine paint brush and green paint, create lines to fill in the remaining space, letting the bright green egg color serve as the contrasting stripe. Let dry.
- With a flat paint brush and Mod Podge Gloss, carefully seal the artwork, making sure no paint shifts around.
Abby Davis
Blogger at Crafty Lady Abby
Abby has been an artist and crafter since she was a young child. She has been sewing and creating for 30 years. She has a degree in Fashion Design. She started her blog, Crafty Lady Abby in 2009, as a way of documenting her creations and motivating herself. She creates tutorials to share her creative knowledge and empower others to be creative.
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