The glow of stained glass but such a simple no-draw way to create amazing art. Use software and a roll of packing tape for this DIY Packing Tape Window Art.
You may have seen the super impressive, viral versions of the "life" sized packing tape ghosts before. They are SO cool. But it's slightly intimidating as a DIY project, right?
Ukraine-born artist Mark Khaisman creates truly outstanding art using something a truly mundane material - brown packaging tape. By putting various layers of translucent tape onto Plexiglass and then cutting it into certain shapes, the artist remakes scenes from old Hollywood movies, art history, certain 20th century cultural icons or his own photographs.
I'm sure many of you have seen the packing tape sculpture craze all over Pinterest. As soon as I saw it at the beginning of the school year, I knew it was something I had to try with my art club kids. We looked at the artwork of Mark Jenkins. Jenkins is an American artist who creates packing tape installations. The kids loved his work. It was so fun and unexpected. To start, the kids got into groups of 3-4 to help speed up the taping process. The first layer of tape had to be wrapped sticky side out. The following 2-3 layers were wrapped sticky side in. Once they got a large section wrapped (or when they wrapped too tight and the model started losing circulation), they cut the tape off and taped the form back together. Every student in art club will get to be the model for this project. I cannot wait to see these finished! Some important lessons we learned today was to not wrap too tightly and to not wrap too many layers or you run out of tape quickly. Here are some progress photos! And here is a fun little video of a quick way to wrap the torso... Here are more photos from 2/5/13 "The proposal" Gangnam Style The tangled mess of body parts! More photos from 2/6/13
We made some postcards out of packing tape a bit back. And then we mailed them. They were received without any issues. So exciting! We got this fabulous idea from All About Collage , by Todd Oldham, which we picked...
Bring the spirit of Halloween to your lawn with this life-size packing tape ghost made of packing tape and plastic cling wrap, which is transparent yet strong enough to hold its shape. Hang it from a tree or the ceiling.
I'm sure many of you have seen the packing tape sculpture craze all over Pinterest. As soon as I saw it at the beginning of the school year, I knew it was something I had to try with my art club kids. We looked at the artwork of Mark Jenkins. Jenkins is an American artist who creates packing tape installations. The kids loved his work. It was so fun and unexpected. To start, the kids got into groups of 3-4 to help speed up the taping process. The first layer of tape had to be wrapped sticky side out. The following 2-3 layers were wrapped sticky side in. Once they got a large section wrapped (or when they wrapped too tight and the model started losing circulation), they cut the tape off and taped the form back together. Every student in art club will get to be the model for this project. I cannot wait to see these finished! Some important lessons we learned today was to not wrap too tightly and to not wrap too many layers or you run out of tape quickly. Here are some progress photos! And here is a fun little video of a quick way to wrap the torso... Here are more photos from 2/5/13 "The proposal" Gangnam Style The tangled mess of body parts! More photos from 2/6/13
The glow of stained glass but such a simple no-draw way to create amazing art. Use software and a roll of packing tape for this DIY Packing Tape Window Art.
Self-taught Dutch street artist Max Zorn creates beautiful illustrations by cutting and layering brown packing tape. Because the tape is semi-translucent,
Have you heard of packing tape transfers before? I first learned to make these from our mom, who was our art teacher growing up (both in school and at home!). This is SO much fun. It’s also surprisingly easy and beautiful for both art journals and artsy DIY wall decor. Supplies: -magazines –packing tape -water…
Check out these 10 packing tape ghost ideas that are sure to frighten your family, friends, and neighbors! Want to create a spooky, life-size packing tape ghost that will scare the neighborhood this Halloween? Then you're in for a treat! Packing tape ghosts are a unique way to add a touch of spookiness to your
There are a lot of cool ghosts I’ve seen made by haunters and artists. While I love some of the ones created by chicken wire and cheesecloth, the packaging tape method appeared to be the easi…
I posted on Instagram a picture of my students hard at work creating Packaging Tape Transfer Prints. This is a technique that I love to show my students because they often will go home and use this skill outside of class. That is always a win for me! When I posted on Instagram, I had people inquiring how to create a transfer print using packaging tape. Well, here is my answer... I have several videos below of how I have instructed students, how I manage the classroom as well as other videos that I have added with a little different twist so you can get a good feel of how to bring this engaging process into your classroom. Here is the BIG ah-ha's this time I taught this lessons... 1. I gave each student one magazine. They were asked to find two pages with an image on it that they found interesting. They were asked to RIP THE WHOLE PAGE OUT and give the magazines back to me. This allows me to keep my magazines nice and neat without a lot of cut out images and by handing the magazines back to me, they stay dry and can be used a second time! 2. I then bring them back for the instruction of the packaging tape. I show them how to help each other when cutting packaging tape. How to press the take on nice and firm. I also don't allow students to do two pieces of packaging tape together for their first time through this process. They press the take on REALLY hard. 3. I also had one shallow container of water at each table by this time. Students were asked to place their magazine in the water before coming back up to find out the next step of the process. This allows the paper to soak for at least 10 minutes as the students are learning. That helps break down the paper giving students a more successful transfer print. 4. I show them how to remove the paper using a paper towel under the tape. This catches most of the paper and I would say the kids did a really nice job cleaning all the paper up after class. 5. I had a scooper to strain the excess paper into the water before dumping it down the sinks. I know this will help prevent clogged drains. One of the videos on the playlist above shows this action. 6. Finally, we did not have time in the hour to use the prints so I had some plexiglass that I asked students to place their work on the sheet labeled with their color table. The tape still has a little adhesive on it so it will stick to the plastic well, and then dry so that we can use it in class next art visit. I have taught this process for years and you can see all the new ideas I had to make this process smoother. We are ever, ever growing in this profession as long as we allow ourselves to do so! I hope this post allows you to grow a little too :)
We made some postcards out of packing tape a bit back. And then we mailed them. They were received without any issues. So exciting! We got this fabulous idea from All About Collage , by Todd Oldham, which we picked...
How to Make a Human Tape Sculpture: These are human-mold sculptures made out of plastic wrap and packing tape. They are fun, easy to make, and can take on any pose you can think of. I discovered these sculptures a few years ago while researching street art installation. This Instruct…
One of the cool new techniques I have learned in the last year has been to transfer images. I am sure there are many ways to transfer images, but I have had the most experience and success with three types of transfer: packing tape, gel medium and Chartpak marker. I have passed that information on to my students and now I will be teaching you the same processes beginning with packing tape transfers. To create a packing tape transfer you will need to gather a few supplies: Images - you will need toner based photocopies, laser jet prints, or magazine images in color or black and white (ink jet prints WILL NOT work!) a scissors or craft knife, a container of water, transparent packing tape (clear or a color), a glue stick, and a sketchbook or other paper to transfer onto. To begin, cut out your chosen image just like you would if you were going to glue the image into a collage. Next, stick your image onto a piece of packing tape so the picture faces toward the sticky part of the tape. If your image is too large for one width of tape, you can overlap multiple pieces to create a sheet of tape big enough to cover your image. I like to trim some of the tape off my image now, so that the shape of the tape and the shape of my image are close (or you can trim later). Now, place your images on the tape into a small container of clean water. They will need to sit in the water for about ten minutes. You can create multiple transfers at once in the same container. I have both a black and white and a colored image that I am using for this demonstration. After your image has been soaking for ten minutes or so, pull it out of the water and put it on the table with the paper backing side up. Then using your finger, carefully roll off the paper from the image and the tape. Two things to remember: 1) keep your finger damp, dip it in the water often 2) do not use your nails or another tool, it will scratch off the image with the paper. All of the paper will come off your image, creating a clear sheet of plastic tape with your image affixed to it. If the paper does not want to come off all the way, return your transfer to the water and wait a few more minutes then rub off any remaining paper. Now you can glue your completed transfer onto your paper. If you didn't trim off the extra tape earlier trim it now before gluing the transfer to your page. Be sure to glue your transfer onto your page, it will seem like the tape is still sticky enough to hold the image in place, it is not and it will bubble up off the page in a couple of hours without glue. This method of transfer can be a fun way to move text (nothing reverses) and images from magazines or photocopies of your artwork into your sketchbook or onto greeting cards or other work. Because the images end up transparent, you can paint or draw on your paper first and still see the color through the clear image you have transferred. The only drawback to this type of transfer is that the image is glossy because of the tape, which makes it hard to draw or paint over the finished transfer. Have fun! Go make a transfer.
Ukraine-born artist Mark Khaisman creates truly outstanding art using something a truly mundane material - brown packaging tape. By putting various layers of translucent tape onto Plexiglass and then cutting it into certain shapes, the artist remakes scenes from old Hollywood movies, art history, certain 20th century cultural icons or his own photographs.
DIY Packing Tape Transfer tutorial! This is such a fun Craft Technique by the Cottage Market for The Graphics Fairy.
Use regular old clear packing tape and a photo copy to make image transfers!
First off--thanks so much for all of your encouraging comments on my metal pieces--you guys made my week! And I wanted to answer the question a couple of you had asked about the paper punches--if the metal will dull their sharpness or break. I'm not sure if it will dull them or not with continued use, since this is the first time I've done this, so I'll have to see on that one. The one thing that did happen--was with the flower punch. The flower punched with no problem, but the metal got a little stuck in the prongs in the punch when I went to take the sheet out. I just cut the metal away and pulled the little bits of metal out. It wasn't bad enough to deter me from making more metal flowers. I love the way these turned out. And also a few had asked me to show you how to do the packing tape transfer--so here goes. First of all, it won't work with inkjet copies, and I've only done the transfers with magazine or glossy catalog images. I don't know about lazer or photo copies--has anyone tried those? So I wanted to show you 3 different images from different types of books to see if there was any difference in the outcome (kind of like a Science experiment back in elementary school : ) I've only used the Scotch brand of packing tape but I don't think that it makes a difference. Starting from the left--this image is from a catalog--the pages are thinner which makes a difference on how easy the transfer comes off. The middle one is from a 1949 magazine--the ink that they used back then wasn't as good so the transfer isn't as strong, and the paper isn't as glossy, but that doesn't seem to make a difference. And the image on the right is from a current magazine--acutally it's from a Somerset mag. I wanted to use a magazine that had high quality thicker pages. And as your looking at them in this photo, I've already put the tape over them. You just put the tape on top of them, and then cut them down to the size of the tape--so right now, they're basically in a laminated state. Make sure when you put the tape on them that their nice and smooth and then burnish them with your finger or a credit card, which is what I prefer--burnish them good so you have a complete transfer. Don't tape the back of them! And make sure the image covers all of the tape but doesn't stick out past the tape. Then just put them in a bowl of water to soak-- Alot say that they only have to be soaked for about 15 minutes, but I found that anywhere from 45 minutes to an hour works best for me. You just take them out one at a time, turn them over to expose the untaped side, and just start rubbing off the back with your finger. until most of the paper's off--I will rewet the image and keep rubbing it gently until it's transparent. I'll also put them under running water and GENTLY continue to get the backing off. Sometimes all of the backing won't come off. This happened to one of the transfers and I'll show you how that one ended up. When I'm finished with them I pat them with a paper towel, gently again--because they will have the adhesive from the tape on their back and the paper towel will stick to them. And then I'll let them thoroughly dry on a piece of wax paper. I usually do a batch of them, and I'll store them in a plastic baggie in a single layer. So what I did was decopauge some sheet music on canvas to let you see how they look over it. I adhered them onto my canvas with matte Mod Podge on both sides (this helps get rid of their glossy appearance, because they end up glossy) or if you want to keep the glossy look, just use the gloss Mod Podge. I think that Matte Medium will work also. At first it looks milky, but it dries crystal clear. Here are the results of my little experiment-- This is the 1949 magazine image--like I said--a little faded, but still pretty good. This is the catalog image and you can see that all of the paper didn't come off (the white residue). But sometimes that's what you're going for--a faded shabby look. And here's the Somerset image. This came off the best--should have known because it's Somerset (Love that magazine!) Here's another one from the 40's mag. I really like the black and white image over the text. And if you noticed these do not come out reversed, so that means that you could do text transfers too. I've also read that for bigger pieces you can use clear contact paper the same way as the tape. I have it--I've just never tried it--has anybody ever tried it? For some reason, I think it would be a little harder, but it would be great if it really works--definitely on my to-do list. I hope I didn't make this sound too complicated, because it really isn't. If you have any questions--again just let me know. And it's fun to experiment with different images and then using them in your artwork. Some you'll like, and some you won't--so try it! Now....I want to thank Jenny for this-- She really is sweet, and I want to thank her for this award--thank you Jenny! Go and visit her creative blog here. And speaking of a sweet blog, I won a giveaway from Emma Grace!--and it just so happens that I found it in my mailbox today! This is from her Alice in Wonderland series, and whoever won had their choice, and I chose the Cheshire Cat. And I love him!!--Thanks Emma Grace! Your blog is looking good!! And finally, it's back to work for me. I have a show in 2 weeks, and I really have to get into gear. So I have another box that I made. After I made this, I knew what my next box was going to be. Those blocks really helped make this box. And I already have a pretty good idea for my next box!
Make clear stickers using an easy packing tape image transfer method. Great for pantry labels, gift tags, custom designs on glass, wood or metal objects!
Because why not?
Learn how to do an image transfer from a magazine using packing tape. This is SO easy and has so many creative applications!
I really enjoy incorporating resin into Open Back Frames, Wire Hoops and Bezels to make unique customized jewelry. Open Backs have provided a whole new level of creativity to my resin work. The number one questions that people have in regards to wrapping their brains around the “how to” part of this creative play is; [...]
A Mandala Turtle for you to color and craft or you may choose the colored version to craft your own Mandala Turtle. They are a rare species! Find them here!
Try out this super easy packing tape image transfer technique- you just need tape, images, scissors, and some water!
Learn how to make your own stickers using some packing tape! -clear packing tape -parchment or wax paper -thin paper such as printer paper -pencils, erasers, pens, markers, crayons, etc.
Have you heard of packing tape transfers before? I first learned to make these from our mom, who was our art teacher growing up (both in school and at home!). This is SO much fun. It’s also surprisingly easy and beautiful for both art journals and artsy DIY wall decor. Supplies: -magazines –packing tape -water…
Learn how to do an image transfer from a magazine using packing tape. This is SO easy and has so many creative applications!
Try out this super easy packing tape image transfer technique- you just need tape, images, scissors, and some water!
Today, I am going to show you a fun image transfer technique AS WELL as an awesome new way to make an art journal (or other mixed media) background.Some of you may be keen on image transfer methods, while others might find them intimidating. So, let's ask this first:What is an image transfer?An image transfer is any method where you would transfer a printed image to anything else. There are a ton of different ways you can do this, but I am only going to show you one.I will be showing you a techn
Making cool and effective ghost sculptures from shipping tape.
Make your own party decor and holiday (Halloween) decor using regular old packing tape as a transfer.
Global street artist Mark Jenkins is renowned for his expertise in simulating human figures out of your average roll of tape. The installation artist's
