How Do You Use Natural Materials For Art?
Using natural materials for art dates all the way back to the Stone Age, with its infamous cave drawings. Rocks, sand, dried leaves and flowers, twigs and even sea shells are all wonderful art media. Natural material art projects range from kid’s craft level (decorated pine cones and sand bottles) to professional sculptures (stone or mud with hay.) To use natural materials for your own art, a wonderful way to start out is to create a simple but beautiful collage. Assemble a variety of dried leaves and twigs around a canvas in the size of your choice. Create an outline around the edge of the canvas with some twigs, and work layer by layer inward until you get to the middle. When you are setting down the leaves, make all the stems point in the same direction so that the piece looks balanced and not chaotic. Leave a 4 inch area in the middle blank. Arrange some dried, pressed flowers in the blank middle area of the canvas. You can choose to use one large flower or multiple smaller ones. G
