Editor’s Note: Too Cute Tuesday is a weekly craft and cocktail. We have a Bar Harbor chapter and a Saint Louis chapter.This week’s post is by Sarah, blogger and Saint Louis Too Cute Tuesday organizer. Want more? See all the posts at www.toocutetuesday.com.
Inspired by the St. Louis Art Museum, last week we here at TCT-StL tried our hands at paint-infused bubble art. Sounds fancy, huh? Get ready to be amazed.
Supplies:
– white paper
– plastic cups/bowls (the wider the mouth, the more paint on your paper)
– straws
– dish soap
– water
– water-based non-toxic paint (poster paint works well)
Cocktail of the night:
– white wine or beer of your choice ) it was still plenty hot here in St. Louis!
Beth, Hugh, and Keith thinking about bubble-prints.
1. Troubleshoot bubble-making with the person who suggested the project. Realize that neither one of you bothered to read the directions and decide that maybe a few guidelines would be helpful after all. We used this website: http://www.things-to-make-and-do.co.uk/painting-and-pictures/bubble-painting/bubble-painting.html Realize that there is more to it than what you did when you were five.
2. Now that you (sort of) know what you’re doing, fill up each cup (one for each color) with about an inch or so of tap water and add a splash of dish soap.
Keith trying very hard to master concentrated paint bubbling and popping.
3. Pour in paint until it looks like “enough.”
4. Mix everything up with the straw and then blow bubbles until they come up over the rim.
5. Put your paper over the top of the bowl and pop the paint bubbles. Reassess paint/water/dish soap ratios.
6. Repeat bubble blowing and paper popping with as many colors and as many times as you’d like.
The supplies, ready for action.
Note: Be sure to have extra straws. While your nearest and dearest may not mind using your spitty straw, some new-comers may be afraid of cooties (and other communicable diseases).
In the end, you get a pretty awesome work of abstract art, worthy of hanging up in lab.
Aren’t you crafty?