Now we’re going to let this air dry for a little bit and just enough so they stiffen up a little bit. Well it looks like our water is dry and when you start to playing out your mural, a few suggestions might be helpful. One, you want to try and group things together. You don’t want to have things just randomly place all over because one of the things about a piece of art is that compositionally it works better if things are kind of organized in groups instead of just having a random placement of objects. So the easiest thing to do is kind of start at the bottom and start placing our seaweed-like things and because this is three-dimensional you can kind to lay those things so that one thing overlaps another and what we’re going to do eventually is the things that aren’t in front of something else are going to go on this little wooden blocks and they’ll be hot glued to them and then they will actually be place above. So it kind to sets them above the other objects and then the object its underneath it will just be hot glued straight to the board. So it’s pretty simple concept. Its just kind of a three-dimensional overlapping of objects. So I think we’re going to put some seaweed over here and maybe we’ll put our snail here and all that stuff and we’ll just lift him up and make it him a little bit higher than everything else. And let’s put a fishy of this guy and—okay so now we’ve kind of got a plan here and do you have to realize that it’s absolutely normal to like move things around and change your mind.
So what I’m going to do here is I’m going to start with the lowest thing. This little section right here and then I’m going to go ahead and then I’m going to hot glue this right in place and then little like under water flower. I’m going to put little block of wood and on the back here and put it right here so it sticks out and just about ready for a new glue stick and one thing you need to know about glue sticks and glue gun is you never pull the glue sticks out. You just place the next one right behind it and it forces the glue right through so that should never be a problem. And I got this big chuck of seaweed here, just going to glue another little block of wood on the back and you know if you don’t have this little blocks of wood, little scrap of cardboard, you can you know glue on the back. You can see with a bunch of them together to get different heights. I views empty spools of thread before. Even little pieces of Model Magic left over, dried up Model Magic that you don’t know what to do with because you really can’t make anything with it anymore. Just whirl them up and they will service you know a little uplift on this pieces here so I’m going to glue this one down and let it kind to under lap the seaweed here so you can see it starting to get three dimensional. And you can see some sort of just taking it apart piece by piece and gluing things down and the only thing you have to watch out for are the glue guns spider webs because they can take over your whole project if you’re not careful.
So there we got the bottom of the ocean and let’s put our sea turtle down and then will make him stick up a little bit and we’re getting pretty close. Think that the seahorse is going to need too so we will give him two supports. When you start to this just make sure that you really—that you group things together because it really does make a difference, you know just think about the grouping of objects. That will just make a much stronger composition and I think it you’ll be a lot happier with that one that’s off completed. We’ve got a little sea snake here and we will put him right there and there you have it. All finished, nice little group project or an individual person can do it and I mean I did the the whole thing myself but if you want to involve a bunch of kids and have some fun with the organizing of it, a mural is great project to work with. And probably the last thing you going to do is pull of all the spider webs and then sign it.
Pick a theme for your mural and then paint the foam board to service the background. Set it aside to dry while you create your figures. Shape your objects with your fingers or use scissors to cut out shapes. You can also mix Model Magic to create new colors. When you have all the pieces made, plan out your composition. Grouping and overlapping help cretae a small composition. Use a small wooden block to help create depth as you glue the objects to the foam board. Have fun!
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