Recyled Art – Tutorial by Deepika Pandey

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the binned coke cans into wonderful pieces of wall art by Deepika Pandey | Recyled Art | theKeybunch decor blog

 

Hello everybody, I am back after a long break. Had a wonderful 9 day vacation and you know how hard it is to get out of the holiday mood and get back in action. Well, I am back home and ready to post all the long due posts. Deepika Pandey is one talented women who believes in turning trash into art. This guest post by Deepika shows how you turn the normally binned coke cans into wonderful pieces of wall art.

Hi Key Bunch Readers!!!
My name is Deepika. It’s a great pleasure to do this tutorial for the Keybunch. I really appreciate Rekha and Sharon for taking interest in my work and giving me this opportunity to show my work on their creative blog. Today I am doing a tutorial on recycle art. There is a pleasure in creating something out of nothing. This work is totally inspired by that. Hope you all like it.

 

Things which need to create a recycled wall art | Recyled Art | theKeybunch decor blog

Things you need: Acrylic colour, brush, pen, 2 empty can of Pepsi or coke (cut the can), some clips of the can, push pin, thread.

Step 1:

Draw any desired shape or pattern. Here for this tutorial, I’m drawing a shape of peacock on the outer side of a can with the help of ball point pen.
You can draw directly the sketches on the can’s sheet with pen or can take two step approach of first drawing the design with permanent marker and then follow the pattern with the ball point pen.
As you can see in below pictures I’m making the sketches directly on the sheet using the ball point.

draw the sketches directly on the can's sheet using the ball point pen | Recyled Art | theKeybunch decor blog
The below figure shows, “how it will look like from the other side…”

The other side look after drawing the sketched | Recyled Art | theKeybunch decor blog

Once the figure is done you can add details. I draw some straight and wavy lines to finish the design as you can see in picture.

Draw some straight and wavy lines on can's sheet for design | Recyled Art | theKeybunch decor blog

Step 2: Add some more details with the help of push pin as shown in above picture.

Add more design on can's sheet with the help of push pin | Recyled Art | theKeybunch decor blog

Follow the same thing on the other sheet too.

Add more design on both the can's sheet with the help of push pin | Recyled Art | theKeybunch decor blog

Step 3: Add the opening clips with the help of thread as you can see in the picture.

Add the opening clips on can's sheet with the help of thread | Recyled Art | theKeybunch decor blog

Step 4: Now paint the blank area of the sheet with black acrylic colour.

Paint the blank area of can's sheet with black acrylic colour | Recyled Art | theKeybunch decor blog

Step 5: Add the second sheet to the first one with the help of thread; your recycle art is ready.

The completed recycled wall art | Recyled Art | theKeybunch decor blog

Hope you enjoyed the tutorial, Deepika has a lovely home too. The house tour will follow shortly. Deepika blogs at Deepi’s World and has some wonderful tutorials, do check them out.

12 Comments

  1. Kamini
    October 22, 2010 at 1:26 pm

    Oh my goodness me! That is totally incredible and creative! Who would have thought to do that??? WOW!

  2. GB
    October 22, 2010 at 2:00 pm

    BIG fan of Deepika's work…she is soooo talented! Looking fwd to her home-tour! 🙂

  3. Anu@My Dream Canvas
    October 22, 2010 at 7:36 pm

    Wow, this is amazing. Sorry Sharon, I leave for Delhi in a few days No geting time to take pictures of my kitchen or blog. Will join the next party!!

  4. Agneta
    October 22, 2010 at 9:48 pm

    Yes yes yes, me like a lot! Wooooow!

    Agneta

  5. Sound Horn Please
    October 22, 2010 at 10:19 pm

    Her work looks like embossed metal and yet its so easy! All those unnecessary childhood yrs I spent in metal embossing art classes getting boils from working with a chisel on my thumb 🙁

  6. purplehomes
    October 23, 2010 at 1:41 am

    same as Divya…It took me right back to those classes..khat khat khat all day my mom would say:) what a pretty wall art!

    Rekha: we missed you!

  7. Deepi's World
    October 23, 2010 at 2:00 am

    Thank you Rekha.

    Thank you everyone for your lovely comments…glad that you like it.

  8. Bedazzled
    October 23, 2010 at 6:37 am

    What an ingeneous idea!! love it !

  10. rama
    October 25, 2010 at 2:50 am

    This looks so simple and easy to do, and looks absolutely beautiful. Really loved it , got to try it out. Thanks for such innovative piece of art.

  11. Anu
    October 25, 2010 at 2:57 am

    SO creative! Loved it 🙂

  12. Patricia Torres
    October 27, 2010 at 9:49 am

    wow!! thats a genius at work.. Im sure.. even if I tried.. the end result would look nothing like this.. Well done.. Deepika!!