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If you are looking for inspiration our
Creative Ideas may be able to help. |
| New ideas will be added every few months so remember to come and have a look. |
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| Casting with Marvin Medium |
| An exciting variety of tiles, plaques and 3-dimensional objects can be easily created by making a casting with Marvin Medium and sand. First roll out a flat piece of Plasticine approximately 1cm thick... |
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| Uses: Marvin Medium |
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| Pointillist Pictures |
| Use Berol Ready Mixed paint to create pictures in the style of an Impressionist artist like Seurat. Seurat used a technique called Pointillism to create pictures using millions of tiny dots placed closely together. |
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| Uses: Berol Paints |
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| Butterfly |
| Spread a layer of Marvin Medium onto polythene such as a carrier bag or bin liner. Make a butterfly shape from soft wire and press into the wet Marvin Medium. Add a little more Marvin to ensure that it touches the wire... |
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| Uses: Marvin Medium |
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| Illuminated Lettering |
| Find a piece of writing that you really like. It could be a sentence from a book, a line from a song or a poem. On plain paper draw some very faint pencil lines with a ruler to act as a guide. |
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| Uses: Colour Italic Lettering Pens |
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| Wall Plaque |
| Make a decorative wall plaque using salt dough or air-hardening clay. Make sure you include a method of hanging it on the wall either by pressing a piece of folded wire into the clay to make a hook, or by pressing the end of ... |
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| Uses: Meltdown Paints |
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| Portraits |
| Draw a simple outline of a friend’s face. Then draw the same person in profile overlapping it with the first drawing. |
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| Uses: Colourbroad |
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| Paper Cutting |
| The Gyro-Cut allows intricate shapes to be cut easily from paper and thin sheet material. Use the Gyro-Cut like a pencil, just applying a little more pressure. Cut a design from coloured paper then stick a contrasting colour behind it. |
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| Uses: Gyro Cut |
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| Fabric Fun |
| Use Fabric Markers to create geometric shapes on fabric or t-shirts. If working on a t-shirt put a layer of paper between the front and the back to stop the ink going through to the back. |
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| Uses: Fabric Pens and Markers |
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