last year, I found bunch of colorful cow in all over the Boston from south station to east Boston harbor. These Arts figures are temporary or not, I like the impact of the installation outside. since all arts get out of the limitations of museum sizes, rules, etc
I am a big fun of Setouchi international Art Triennale. It is an art festival held in every 3 years on the islands and coastal cities in Seto Sea of Japan . That is huge project to show art installations out of the museum box. Arts were placed in some rural island old house, in the forest, some random building.
Seeing arts Outside is totally different experience from seeing the art quietly in the museum. It might be the great background of the view, it might be the mood of the outside air.
I enjoyed Biwako biennale which held in every 2years around the Lake Biwa. I like Quebec winter arts installation too.
now in Boston!
The winter active arts started this January 15 to April 17.
Free and open to public area. the art installation location map is this.
which is great! Which might collect more variation of comments from Art fun or non Art fun. Especially in old historical city like Boston, some people afraid of jammed the iconic landscape with new stuff.
but definitely these arts gave strong impacts to people walking by Boston. The impact of Boston is alive.
Most of my friends in Japan imagine Boston is the place there are bunch of university and tech company. But Boston has lots to see, not only the university village!
My family are big fun of Apple products. iPhone, Mac book, iPads….and I have kept all the Apple products boxes …
Those boxes are so strong and so beautiful to throw away. But never come up the ideas to use them.
today, finally I up remake the one iPhone box into a pen tray.
i grabbed some scrap of clothes from patchwork pile. Glued those clothe with Elmer’s school glue to the box.
it is surprisingly easy to glue the clothes onto the box. This cotton clothe print design is “ forest retreat”.
I tacked the corner like wrapping the gifts.
for inside of the box, I used Japanese masking wide tape( Washi tape wide type) . Washi tape is easy to undo or adjust the placement . Nicely hide the edge of the cloth.
this William morris design Washi tape is available in 100yen shop in Japan.(Currently 70cents value shop)
the size of iPhone SE box lid is perfect for the BIC pen.
now I am very happy to find the usage of the iPhone boxes!
I love the open studios event. I joins these events in Somerville and Cambridge so far in the past.
This year the Cambridge open studios held in September. I completed the central sq area gallery last time. So this year I wonder around the edge area of the Cambridge.
Day 1 Walking from porter sq .
Urban sketching video
I enjoyed so many different styles of art. Also I like to visit the artist cozy home gallery.
all open house art is has super nice organized room with great furniture settings. I hesitate to ask permission to take photos of home of course. So at least outside I sketched on the train back home.
How may styrofoam food tray I am consuming in a week? I collected styrofoam food trays and counted them.
It it scary to see the reality. But this is the styrofoam trash as a 4 person family /week.
I buy vegetables,cheese,ham,etc…many things are on these styrofoam tray wrapped with plastic. I like repurposing the trash.
How to upcycle styrofoam to printing materials.
I washed and cut the edges to make then flat styrofoam .
Then keep in the plastic container which was BBQ meat container.
Let’s start print making❣️
use pencils or ballpoint pen. Draw the image you like on the styrofoam plate.
Then, add ink on the styrofoam. I used roller for adding ink onto the tray. Ink is acrylic ink this time.
Ink tray is the plastic container lid of BBQ meat😝
Applying the ink on the styrofoam, put the paper on the styrofoam. Rub the back of the paper to attach the ink to paper.(I use my hand to rubbing)
Done!🥳
I like simple black. I added yellow to see the different.
Styrofoam printing was fun. It is safe Art for kids because no knife to make prints.
Can’t stop printing! This is the view of my kitchen floor in the end of the art making day
Now I need to clean these and cook the dinner!
Let’s collages all printed art.
This art is now exhibiting in the art fest at Quincy May13-June 11 . (@ Qarts gallery)
Options/ stamp pad , watercolors
The stamp ink pad works too!( left side was stamp pad ink, right side is watercolor and crayon to add detail color )
I tried the watercolor using brush for colored printing. It works too. Need to adjust the right amount of water is a bit challenging but watercolor printing might be easier to clean the mess.
We are planning to go to Japan in the middle of the school term. Kids need to say goodbye to their classmates and teachers.
I want to make some thank you and goodbye gifts for their friends.
As my kids are half Japanese, so I think Origami might be interesting. Would origami flowers on pencils be a memorable gift?
The colored paper I use is from the kids school.
Yes, school gave us lots of letters, news, and homework papers. I kept the colored paper.
This origami flower is a tulip, it is very easy to fold. After creating the flower part, cut the bottom a tiny bit, stick a pencil to the cut hole, and tape around the pencil.
I used green floral tape to attach the flower to the pencil. That tape is bit stronger than washi tape.
