I’m just getting to posting photos of art I made at this week’s Bad Art Night.
I wanted to make jacked-up pomenades like the beautiful ones I saw here, but not so precious. Bad Art Night was the perfect place to work on them.
I was able to do three in our 7-10 pm time slot. That included punching the flowers and putting them onto the styrofoam balls. The first one I did with bright paper from an ad inside the New York Times magazine. I liked the hot pink and blues. I think it was for a resort down in the Bahamas. At any rate, I used the regulation pearl-head pins.
It took nearly a whole box of those and they are almost $5 per box, so that wasn’t going to be a sustainable model.
Just for kicks, for the next two I used regular everyday straight pins. They have almost no head on them because they are so cheap and flimsy, but that was perfect for this job.
The blue pomenade is made from flowers I punched from some Thomas Bros. map book pages a BAN attendee gave me. She also gave me some beautiful origami sheets and I used them in two colors (lime green and orange) to make the third pomenade.
I have a large stash of ribbon, so it was easy to find something that coordinated with each pomanade.Oops – now that I look at the step-by-step instructions, I see they don’t put a ribbon on them to hang. Oh well. Happy accident.
I really like making these as long as they aren’t too pretty.
I also made these random collages using left overs from the punching for the pomenades, which I then glued to some paint chip samples I happened to have lying around.
It was another successful Bad Art Night for me!
