Marilyn pays a visit to Circle C HEB Store
Update:
After a visit to the Bowie High Website, I found the instructor / sponsor of the Art Club (Amber Bohanna) who kindly responded to my e mail. She informed me that HEB sponsored the Art Club with supplies and materials for creating this art piece for the First Night Austin Parade (www.firstnightaustin.org/)Here's a quote from her detailed response:
"We used cardboard construction, paper mache, and tape sculptures (Marilyn and the coke Bottle). The Marlin was supposed to be standing and pushing the cart from behind, but we were short on time (we had about two weeks to find time after school during finals weeks to get the cart done). The tape sculptures are made by putting saran wrap around parts of the model and then wrapping that with about 3 or 4 layers of clear packing tape. We painted flesh color paper and stuffed that inside the Marilyn. For the Coke Bottle, we wrapped one of the curvy girl students we have (I think the coke bottle design was based on a women's body) and paint the inside with the brown-black color to look like liquid, and then stuffed it newspaper. Tape sculptures are a great way to make inexpensive castings, and people seem to really like them.
After it was displayed in HEB for a couple of weeks, students from the art club pushed it through the First Night Austin Parade. It was a lot of fun and we got great reactions. We have to think of an even better idea for next year:)"
You can see more photos of this piece at www.amberbohanna.com/AbohannaArtBHS/Art Club.html
How cool is this? I am so glad I was able to find out more about this very cool project.
Marilyn pays a visit to Circle C HEB Store
Update:
After a visit to the Bowie High Website, I found the instructor / sponsor of the Art Club (Amber Bohanna) who kindly responded to my e mail. She informed me that HEB sponsored the Art Club with supplies and materials for creating this art piece for the First Night Austin Parade (www.firstnightaustin.org/)Here's a quote from her detailed response:
"We used cardboard construction, paper mache, and tape sculptures (Marilyn and the coke Bottle). The Marlin was supposed to be standing and pushing the cart from behind, but we were short on time (we had about two weeks to find time after school during finals weeks to get the cart done). The tape sculptures are made by putting saran wrap around parts of the model and then wrapping that with about 3 or 4 layers of clear packing tape. We painted flesh color paper and stuffed that inside the Marilyn. For the Coke Bottle, we wrapped one of the curvy girl students we have (I think the coke bottle design was based on a women's body) and paint the inside with the brown-black color to look like liquid, and then stuffed it newspaper. Tape sculptures are a great way to make inexpensive castings, and people seem to really like them.
After it was displayed in HEB for a couple of weeks, students from the art club pushed it through the First Night Austin Parade. It was a lot of fun and we got great reactions. We have to think of an even better idea for next year:)"
You can see more photos of this piece at www.amberbohanna.com/AbohannaArtBHS/Art Club.html
How cool is this? I am so glad I was able to find out more about this very cool project.