DIY Push Pin Art
Push pins have been a staple product of office supply closets worldwide since their introduction in 1900 by Edwin Moore, a Princeton University student. Pressing a push pin into a cork board to hold up a scrap of paper is a common technique for organizing desktop clutter. Colorful push pins are useful outside the office as well. In the art room they are a medium for push pin art, pictures made up of hundreds and thousands of push pins. Create a DIY push pin art project by transforming an everyday photo into a colorful and creative masterpiece.
Instructions
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Separate the red, yellow, blue, green, white and black push pins. Work with these six basic colors.
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Print a basic coloring picture from your computer or tear one from a coloring book. Simple designs are easier to transform into push pin art than elaborately detailed pictures.
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Place the page in the corner of the cork board, flush with two edges that create one of the square's 90-degree angles. Attach the paper with a push pin in each corner.
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Using a straight blade, cut off the excess board around the two sides of the picture that are not already flush with the edges. The picture should fill the entire cork board.
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Color the picture by pushing push pins through the paper into the cork board. Cluster groups of the same colored pins together to fill areas with color. Use the black outlines of shapes as guides by lining the edge of the plastic part of the push pin with the black line. The spot where the metal center of the pin pokes through the paper into the cork board will be just inside the actual outlines of the picture.
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Fill the background space with white or black push pins. Replace the push pins that were originally used to attach the paper to the cork board with push pins that are the same color as those used for the background.
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Tips & Warnings
Hold push pin art at a distance for viewing.
References
- Photo Credit Photos.com/Photos.com/Getty Images
