How Do You Make An Art Car?
We will take an old car and turn it into an art car with spray paint, cardboard, and masking tape. Tape off the windows and shiny metal parts of your car, and any other things you don’t want paint on. You can tape newspaper to the windows. Assess your original paint. Is it rusting or flaking? If so, you may need to start with a base coat. Spray paint works pretty well. Sand off any rust or flaky parts. Just take a few cans of a neutral base color (we used green) and spray it evenly all over. If your starting base coat is pretty good already, you can skip this step. Make some cardboard stencils of symbols and shapes you want on your car. Draw the shape onto cardboard, leaving a 4-6 inch border of solid cardboard around the edge. Then cut out the shape with an exacto knife. Some things we have done have been: ducks, hearts, flowers, swirls, zigzags, words, happy faces, flames, and hand prints. If your shape has something floating freely inside, like the middle of an “O” you can tape the
