Great coloring page to supplement a lesson on famous Japanese contemporary artist, Yayoi Kusama and her love of polka dots and the concept of infinity. ...
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May 5th is Kodomo no Hi or Children's Day in Japan. These Koinobori or flying carp windsocks are a great way to celebrate. I have 2 tutorials to share... the fabric version with the glue batik and a bit of sewing and a easier version using paper and pastel resist. So let's get started Fabric Version MATERIALS REQUIRED: some lightweight fabric, cotton works well Elmer's gel glue acrylic craft paint paintbrush sewing machine 12-14" length of wire pole...we used a natural bamboo garden stake fishing line fishing swivel (optional) I had the kids draw out their design first on paper. Because we are making a fish with 2 sides but folding it in half it's good to get them to practice how it is laid out. Cut a piece of fabric approximately 24 inches long and 16 inches wide. Lay flat on top of some wax paper. We also have ours on top of an art board so I can move it easily. Using Elmer's blue gel glue recreate your fish design on the fabric. This glue works the best when doing this glue batik technique. It is the no run gel formula. I find the glitter version hard for the kids to squeeze and the clear version will run messing up your design. We did half of ours using the glitter glue so you could see our design in the picture. Put aside and let dry overnight. Using watered down acrylic craft paint..put some color on to your fish. Set aside to dry. When dry soak in some hot water in a sink or bathtub...after about 20 minutes the glue will have softened and dissolved. You may have to lightly scrub or agitate it to remove the glue. Let dry. Fold over about 2 inches at the mouth of the fish and sew the width of the fish creating a pocket for our wire. Insert the wire at this time. Bring the ends together forming a circle for our gaping fish mouth. Twist the ends on top of each other... you may have to use some pliers. Your fish mouth should look like this. With right sides facing sew a seam the length of the body..sew up the tail leaving a small gap it the center of the tail to allow some air to flow thru your wind sock. Here is the gap. Cut away excess fabric from the seams. Turn the fish right side out. Your windsock should look like this. Attach a 16 inch piece of fishing line to each side of the mouth. I find the fishing line is stiff enough that you can just poke a hole thru the fabric with it. Try to get the places where you are attaching the line to be even to one another. Attach to pole. You can use a fishing swivel to prevent the windsock from getting tangled in the wind. Paper version MATERIALS REQUIRED: heavy brown kraft paper..I used a paper bag scissors pastels tempera paint paintbrush glue string pole Take your paper or paper bag and cut a piece 16 inches wide by 20 inches long. Fold in half. Trace out a fish shape. Cut out shape keeping as much of the fold on the top of the fish as you can. Open up flat and start coloring in your fish using pastels. When finished carefully crumple up. Open up flat and smooth out a bit. Taking some tempera paint, paint over top the pastel. It will resist the paint and cause it to bead up making it look like your fish is underwater. Cover your fish completely. Let dry. Take 2 pipe cleaners and loosely twist together. Run a bead along the inside of the mouth edge of the fish. Roll the edge up enclosing the pipe cleaner. You can use some clothespins to hold it into place until it dries. Run a bead of glue along the outer edge of the fish. Leave a gap in the tail to let the air flow thru the windsock. Fold the fish over. You can hold it into place with some clothespins until it dries. Bend the wire into a circle to form a gaping mouth. Poke a hole into both sides of the mouth to attach the string. Attach to pole. Here is our paper version. Give it a try and have your own Children's Day parade. see you next time gail
While I was researching last week’s post about slow fashion, I found so many beautiful examples of sashiko (Japanese quilting)-inspired mending and boro, the traditional Japanese practise of …
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There's a lot of cool paper art but few projects can even come close to what Masayo Fukuda is capable of. Fukuda has been hand-cutting paper for about 25 years, and this octopus is probably the best representation of her work.
Akiko Ike of Niigata, Japan, is a gentle, unassuming lady with immense talent in the Japanese art of Sashiko embroidery. Her technique is not strictly Sashiko, it encompasses and incorpor…
