Joy of Cardboard

Sas Colby

Corrugated cardboard is an overlooked art material – it’s all around us
and it’s free! You can create interesting patterns by peeling away the
surface to reveal patterned ridges which can be colored and painted.
Combine this with collage and found objects, and finish with glazes and
shellac to create a layered work of depth and richness. All these
techniques will be demonstrated. Suitable for all levels of experience.

Supply List:

• Materials fee: $5
• Teacher’s Handout, gesso, shellac and/or glazes, denatured alcohol, string, Wire
  
  
• Participants should bring:
• Corrugated cardboard – can be a box you pick up on the sidewalk, does
• not have to be new
• Colored Pencils such as Prismacolor, acrylic paints, some irridescent
• paint
• Scissors and utility knife
• Straight Edge
• Containers for mixing paint
• Sketchbook – something to write in
• Adhesive – Elmer’s or Sobo, or any brand you like, a glue stick
• Small jar of heavy gel
• Brushes – the inexpensive kind from the hardware store, a half inch and a one inch brush
• Small found objects you want to build into your piece
• Collage materials, small bits of fabric
• Optional: any other tools you like to use