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Weekly Theme:  

Painting Outside the Box.....or Just Use The Box!

Have you wondered if you could do something better than just throw out all those delivery boxes?  For this week's theme we will not just think outside the box...but use the box to create art. 

Danny Gregory, in his book "Art Before Breakfast" suggests newspapers, old boarding passes, coffee cups, ..... as substrate for art.  Some other ideas include: pizza boxes, old ledger papers, leftover gift wrap, seashells and rocks.  Just about anything that will hold the mark making. 

Use these links for inspiration: 

https://www.doodlersanonymous.com/post/2687/cardboard-art/

https://mymodernmet.com/animal-drawings-mark-powell/

https://hudsonvalleysketches.blogspot.com/2020/02/transform-old-book-into-art-journal.html

http://www.jordanfretzdesign.com/#/illustration/

https://www.boredpanda.com/drawing-with-waste-paper/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic

Use your left over boxes, old books and letters, sheet music, ledger books, AND lots of imagination to intertwine you art with the materials at hand. 

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