Hi, I'm Molly, and welcome to art class. Today we are going to have fun
creating a project with painters' tape and a few colors of acrylic paint.
With just a few items you can find around your house, you will be able
to create your own sketchbook covered with an abstract style painting you design. Let's go!
For this project, you will need painters' tape, a black matte surface folder with three holes
down the fold, 10 to 15 pages of eight and a half by eleven inch paper, string or yarn,
a three hole puncher. If you don't have that, a one hole punch will do. Water in a cup,
a paper towel, a paintbrush, a permanent black marker, and acrylic paints. Let's begin!
Hi, I'm Molly. I'm Olivia. And today we are going to make an abstract painting using acrylic paint
and painters' tape. So Olivia has her folder. She has that all taped off, and I have mine,
and I'm just going to tape it off with painters' tape, just so you guys see how simple this is.
Okay, let's get started with step number two. So we're gonna just take our acrylic paint,
and I have one metallic color because I always feel like that makes
this stand out really well on black. Just to have either a silver or gold metallic
acrylic paint, and so now we're gonna fill in our shapes.
Okay, so now that we finished doing
the painting part, we're gonna have to let it dry. Then we'll come back in a little bit.
Okay, now we're ready for step number three. So Olivia, show them your finished folder
or notebook that we made, or journal or whatever you want to call it. So we had
taken the tape off that. We assembled it with some string and a hole punch and some paper,
and now we're going to show you how to take the tape off yours. And if you use painters' tape,
it should go pretty good. But sometimes accidents do happen. But if you pull it off at an angle, and
most of the time we get a good, clean edge.
So now if you have some black marks, that's okay. Because what we're going to do,
I'm just going to show you a quick easy way to kind of fix those. I just have a black Sharpie,
and that happens. You know, it can't be perfect all the time. So if you come up
with some little black marks or some white marks where you pulled up the folder surface,
just a layer of it, then you can just easily fix that. Just grab a permanent marker
and color in those areas, and it'll blend in really nice. So now we're to our final step,
which is I have some paper that I have hole punched with a three hole punch.
And we're just going to place that right in here, inside our folder, and I have
three pieces of string. They're all about the same length that I've cut,
and we're going to feed them through the holes and just tie a little bow.
Okay, and there you have it. We have Olivia's and mine. Do you want to flip yours over,
Olivia, and show them what the back looks like? So you can use any variety of colors,
and come up with any color scheme that you like. I hope you enjoyed learning how to do painters' tape
abstract modern art with us, and I hope you enjoyed making your own journal
or notebook. Keep creating. Keep making art. And we'll see you next time.