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It’s a silly day of play using a Spark of Art-Spiration. It all starts with finding this very unusual creature in the free download. Of course there’s an O.O.P.S. or two, but the underwear malfunction was a first. It was with the creature, not me but still, the poor dear might have been a bit flustered by it all!
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The play started with an O.O.P.S., an Outstanding Opportunity Presenting Suddenly. I was sure I wanted orange paint as the base color. Nope, but as long as the paint was already out, I might as well use it up.
Then when I painted the sides, I realized I couldn’t pick it up to keep it from sticking to the paper. But there was a great opportunity in that to show you how to make sure that it won’t stick by raising it up. Use whatever is on hand just like I did in the video.
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The orange was an OOPS and the opportunity there was to now have the top and sides be 2 different colors.
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Having a stash of premade letters makes it easy to put together a word for a title. How did I quickly make all those letters? I’ve got a video showing how I use alphabet stencils from StencilGirl with gel prints to create them. This is a great way to use gel prints by the way!
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There was a bit of an underwear malfunction for this creature. It’s all covered up in this photo thanks to using a scrap of the Spark!
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I never get the glue all the way to edges, but I did this time. O.O.P.S. again. So instead of tucking the extra feet under the purple body, I had to improvise. Yup, that was some serious thinking on my feet happening there 🙂
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The words you choose to incorporate into your art are significant. They impact the meaning of your piece. So what word belonged with quack? Moo of course!
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Why Moo? What deep philosophical reason did I have for that word? The book, Click Clack Moo, Cows that Type – a favorite with my kids, was going through my head. Quack and Clack were close so of course, Moo had to go with it.
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One the many reasons I love sharing a weekly Spark of Art-spiration is that we can all see different things in it. I saw this crazy thing in the Spark of Art-spiration, what do you see in it?
This was fun to watch. No accident, just design elements.
Before I read the post or before I watched the video, the first thing the picture brought to my mind was – yes, “Click Clack, Moo Cows that Type”! One of my [retired librarian] favorite children’s books, & so glad to hear your children loved it too.