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My artist is away this week and we've been on summer break so today I'm sharing an art project from several years ago.
We started with blackline world maps, which we labelled and colored. Then we tore the edges, folded the maps up as small as we could, and sharply creased the folds. We hoped to give the maps a well-used and somewhat tattered look.
We started with blackline world maps, which we labelled and colored. Then we tore the edges, folded the maps up as small as we could, and sharply creased the folds. We hoped to give the maps a well-used and somewhat tattered look.
After unfolding the maps, we placed them in a tray and covered them in strong tea.
After a good soaking with the tea, and while the paper was still wet, we crumpled the maps and allowed them to dry overnight. In the morning we gently flattened them out. The tea stained the paper where it hadn't been colored, making it look aged. This might have worked better with a different kind of paper that would have soaked up the tea better - we used regular copy paper.
And finally, we "painted" the maps with a thin coat of vegetable oil. After that had dried, the maps looked aged and brittle. We mounted them on construction paper to display on our timeline wall.
This post is adapted from my original Virtual Fridge on July 18, 2013 - Virtual Refrigerator: Aged Map Art - and the art project came from the book Geography Through Art by Sharon Jeffus and Jamie Aramini.
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What a fun project!
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