My Failed Dyed Rice Candy Cane Mosaic · Craftwhack

Practise y'all want to see how crafty I can get around here? I got and then crafty that I went a little overboard and failed this fine art projection. What with all the liquid watercolor I've been using lately, I idea it would be a fun idea to dye some rice and make a imitation mosaic candy cane, similar to the faux mosaic elephant art my footstep daughter made.

As of this morning I was going to scrap this whole mail service and scramble to make a new one for today, simply hey, why non include the mess-ups forth with the pretty, Pinterest-worthy projects?

We all accept art failures and I recall information technology'due south dandy to have that, and interesting to await at how nosotros would do the project differently adjacent time.

Most of these projects I make for Craftwhack are me deciding I want to effort something, and then just doing it anyway, and nearly of them come out okay, and so maybe I'll add more of the duds here and in that location and nosotros tin have some mini critiques. YAY! Memories of art school…

I'one thousand going to go along my materials list and directions, and I'll show you the betoken at which I retrieve this project could have gone in another direction to save it.

Materials

white rice

Red liquid watercolor

Lath or fine art panel – I accidentally used a $fifteen cradled art board that was pre-gessoed, so I would suggest these if you want a cheaper alternative and merely pigment the surface with white paint or gesso then the wood doesn't show through.

Aleene'due south Tacky Mucilage

Mod Podge

Gallon Ziploc bag

Tweezers

Directions

• Take about a cup of the rice, dump it into a gallon Ziploc bag, and squeeze in a big squirt of red paint. Zip the purse upwards and massage it around until the rice is covered in paint. Add more than pigment if the rice is too pinkish for your liking.
• Empty the rice out onto a large area where you can spread it out to dry out. I used freezer paper taped down all across my dining table.
• Print out a candy cane shape or draw your ain. I used this one.
• Pencil transfer your candy cane over onto the panel.
• Using the Aleene'due south, squeeze an even line of gum all over the candy cane outline, and fill in every other processed cane stripe. Y'all tin can as well clasp and outline of glue around the perimeter of the art board to make a 'frame'.
• Sprinkle the dried red rice on the glue and let it dry for a while. Before it'southward dry, yous can shove the rice effectually a fiddling with your fingers or tweezers if it'southward spread too much. Tip the panel over to gently tap off the extra carmine rice that hasn't been stuck down with glue.
• Fill in the other stripes with Aleene's and sprinkle the white rice on.

Pour Modernistic Podge onto the background area and spread information technology around with a paint brush. Sprinkle white rice all over the background. I added a footling red rice into my white rice to give the background a speckled look.

Allow this dry for a while and and so dump the extra white rice off.

GAH! THIS IS WHERE Information technology ALL WENT SOUTH. It ended upward looking similar a big freaking mess, and the white rice didn't encompass  the whole background, so this thing looks a niggling like a rug hook projection from the 70'south gone bad.

I also tried to tweeze all of these rice bits that wandered into other colors, some of the red paint ran into the white with the glue, and the all-time part of all, something I didn't bother to take a photo of, is that I idea information technology would be a fantastic idea to pour Modern Podge over the entire finished product and wait for it to dry.

I expected a actually cool encaustic-look, and what I got was utter art terror. It was Mod Podge puddles in some areas and runny pink rice in others.

What I Would do Differently

I kinda sorta like the candy pikestaff on its ain with simply the red rice, or perhaps with the white rice stripes, too. I think I would get more than the management of that elephant mosaic I mentioned earlier, and maybe use torn paper for the background instead of more rice. Or possibly kraft paper glued to the panel would look cool as a background for the processed pikestaff.

What do y'all think? Whatsoever good ideas?

Hither are my other candy cane art projects from 5 Days of Candy Canes:

Monday: Wax Resist Watercolor Candy Canes

Tuesday: Salt dough candy pikestaff ornaments

Wednesday:Cake Press Candy Canes

Anyway, this was still fun to work on, and boy did it accept me YEARS to have that not everything I brand is going to be an amazing finished product.

This is a difficult lesson for artists, eh?

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