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Here's an Art Attack for a still life with a difference!

You will need:
Tissue paper
Cling film
PVA glue
Scissors


First choose an object for a still life, like this bottle, and cover it completely in cling film.

Take care to press the cling film into all the nooks and crannies of whichever object you've chosen.

Next, mix up some PVA glue with water, and paste on some small, torn up pieces of tissue paper.

Using different shades of tissue paper gives a more interesting effect.

The idea is to do three or four layers, each going right down to the bottom oe the object.

When the tissue paper and PVA glue has dried, insert a pair of scissors at the bottom, and cut the cast off, as neatly as you can...

...then carefully prise the object away from the cast.

Next, paste on more tissue paper and PVA glue along the seam, to join it up.

When the seam is covered, leave it to dry.

When it has dried, you'll have something that looks like this!

You can produce other objects in this way, and arrange them on a plate to produce a 3D still life!

If you like, you can glue them down onto a paper plate - like this - and cover the plate in tissue paper toO!

This one is a sort of "bathroom accessories" still life.

Or how about this? The more objects you add, the more spectacular it looks!

Do remember to ask for permission before you start pasting tissue paper on objects around the house!

Try it yourself!

If you're bored with drawing flat pictures, it's time you made a 3D Picture Box!

You will need:
Shoe Box
Pen
Paint
Cardbaord Box Card
Scissors


First, find find yourself an old shoe box.

Draw around the box (not the lid) onto a large piece of paper and think of a theme for your 3D Picture Box.

You need to create your design within the rectangle you drew.

The design needs to be in three layers, the background, the middle and the foreground.

In this one, the cacti, sign and skull are in the foreground, the mountain scene and road is in the middle, and the background has the sky with birds in the distance.

Copy the background of your design onto the back of the box.

Now copy the middle part of the design onto a piece of card.

It has to be the same size as the inside of the box, all the way around.

Trim away excess card carefully with scissors.

Now draw the foreground part of your design onto the box lid.

It's OK if you go into the frame a little, but try not to go too far into it!

Cut away the excess card, so that you can see inside your 3D Picture Box!

Next, paint the background design that you drew on the inside of the box.

Then paint the middle section, let it dry and secure it in place in the middle of the box.

Finally, paint lid of the box, and pop it in place.

Finished!

There are lots of possibilities for 3D Picture Boxes using this technique.

How about a day at the races?

Or what about an underwater scene, like this?

Try it yourself!

Fancy creating a fantasy castle, complete with turrets and towers?

You will need:
Polystyrene Cup
Paper
Kitchen Roll Tubes
Sticky Tape
Loo Roll Tubes
PVA Glue
Tissue Paper or Kitchen Roll


Take a polystyrene cup and tape it upside down onto a piece of A4 paper.

Next, rip the whole of the bottom the of the polystyrene cup off using your fingers.

Stuff an empty kitchen roll tube through the hole that you made in the polystyrene cup.

Tape it in place.

Then scrunch up some scrap paper into a paper ball and stuff it in the top of the tube to block it up.

Again, tape it in place.

Next, take three loo roll tubes and tape them into position so that they're roughly half way above the kitchen roll tube.

You should now have something that looks like this!

To make the pointy tops of the castle towers, just take a piece of A4 size paper and start to roll it in from one corner.

As you're rolling it in turn to the right and it should roll itself into a paper cone.

Then just tape it into position, so that it doesn't unroll.

Next cut it down to make sure its about the same height as the loo roll tube and that it's wide enough to fit over the loo roll tube.

Then simply pop on top, and do the same for the other towers.

To make the details for the castle, take some strips of scrap paper and twist and bend them to help you make a door frame and windows.

Don't forget to tape them into place

Next, to turn your castle into stone you need to use PVA glue mixed with water (two parts glue, one part water), and just paste onto the front of your castle.

Before the glue dries, paste on strips of loo roll or tissue paper.

You can also cover the paper base to make it stronger.

You'll need to cover the whole castle with tissue paper or loo roll in three layers, with a layer of the PVA glue and water mixture between each layer.

Leave the castle to dry overnight and then it should go hard, leaving a great stone-like effect.

Cut out the base - unless you want to keep it all!

Next you need to paint it. You can use any colour you like because after all it is your 3D fantasy castle!

The best way to paint it is to cover the whole thing in a base coat of paint, then when that's dried, add on all the detail, with different coloured paints or coloured marker pens.

You can make your castle look however you like, and you don't have to use only three towers. You can use five or six - but don't use too many or your castle will fall over!