Shaving Foam and Glue

As you might know, I'm a teaching assistant and so sometimes my posts will be a project I've done for school - like today's.

I should also say that, like many of my friends and colleagues, I'm currently addicted to Pinterest. For me, Pinterest is the IT alternative to printing ideas out and pasting them in a 'to do' folder. I try and pin a lot of things that I do genuinely have an intention of trying or of adapting for my own ideas.

Shaving foam and glue is one such thing. I've seen people mix the two to make snowmen pictures - we tried this at Christmas. However, I was looking for something to paint a large earth with some texture to it.

I've drawn an outline of the world on the backing paper using chalk (note: holding it down with anything handy - paracetamol - third child poorly at mo!) 

Then, I've mixed PVA glue with green acrylic before mixing in shaving foam. It's meant to be half PVA and half shaving foam - but seriously how are you supposed to work that out!? 

I've used a paintbrush to dollop it on rather thickly. Occasionally I leave a bit of shaving foam unmixed or add a bit more green, so that the finished map isn't just one colour.

All I need to do know is leave it to dry overnight.

Salt and Glue Painted Canvas

I have a couple of friends who've had a trying year, so at Christmas I made them some inspirational gifts. I thought I'd try out a new technique of using water colours with glue and salt. I've seen lots of examples on tinternet but I imagine you probably get different effects depending on your exact technique and what salt or paint you use. Anyway here's my tutorial....

         

Paint your canvas with a selection of watercolours, using so much that it 'puddles' on the canvas.

Next drip glue over the painted canvas, see how it starts to act like a resist, pushing the paint away.

Then sprinkle salt over the canvas to draw up some of the watercolour. I used a mix of rock salt and table salt.  Leave the canvas to dry.

This is what the canvas looked like the following morning. When it dries the salt gives the canvas a bit of a shimmer.

Here's the finished gifts once I'd hotglued a coaster with an inspirational quote onto it.