Most of the time, we print the brand name and marks on cartons. We make the printing cartons with the carton printer. With development of the packaging industry, carton printer emerged. With the carton printing technology, all kinds of carton prints can be made out. I've had a couple of emails lately asking me what the cartons look like and what artists might do to them to turn trash into treasure. So, I decided to post a few examples to this blog and to Art Angelix. Here are examples of the cartons I have here all packaged and ready to go out to the next artists who sign up for Art In A Carton.
The blue carton is gessoed (white) and painted with blue acrylic. The band at the top is hand drawn on water color paper and then affixed to the carton. I glued on some paper flower ranks that I picked up in several colors at the euro/dollar store and attached a couple of layered die cut flowers.
For the gold carton I simply applied pale gold and silver on top of white gesso and then glued on part of a napkin. The bow is from a box of Lindt chocolates. That's about as easy as it gets!
Want one? All you have to do is become an Art In A Carton artist! Just read the instructions, send me an email, and you can be the owner of one of these or the other cartons a few days from now.
I felt like making a tall tinnie this time, and this is one of them.
This was a standard soup can, sanded, gessoed, and painted with titanium buff acrylic, with three little wooden button feet added. I had a roll of fiber that matched the paint, so I glued it around the middle of the can. The borders are something I saw at the craft store last week and wanted to try They are self-adhesive, around an inch wide, and come in several colors.
Then I sewed a rosette in matching colors, using ribbons from my stash, and found a gold button that looks like the center of a flower to add to it. The rosette sits on top of the can like a lid.
I attached a bunch of tiny tags to the handle. They can be left there as decoration or remove for use in other projects.
Boxes include so many kinds, such as gift boxes, shipping boxes packaging boxes, corrugated board boxes and so on.