Sea Glass Art A How to Guide

Sea Glass Art: A How To Guide

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Things you are going to Bottles

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Plastic Bin Picture Frame

Hammer

Resin/Hardner Gloves

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Glue Gun/ Glue Sticks

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Strainer

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Towel Water Hose Throw Away Gloves

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Step 1: Get your favorite soda. Make sure it comes in a glass bottle. My favorite soda is a Rootbeer.

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Step 2: Drink your soda all gone, then rinse your bottle out. Then repeat step one several times with different colored bottles.

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Step 3: Get a plastic bin, hammer, cloth towel, gloves, and your glass bottles.

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Step 4: Take them all outside. Set the plastic bin down. Grab a glass bottle, set it inside the bin. Put the cloth towel over the bottle.

Make sure your gloves are on. Grab your hammer and smash it, then repeat with the rest of your bottles.

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Make sure you have your gloves on and pick up the smashed glass from the bin and put it inside the tub. Fill it halfway with broken glass.

Then add grit (2 tablespoons). Then add water just past the broken glass. Put the lid onto the tub. And make sure it is good and tight. Put the tub on top of the tumbler and set it for four days and let it tumble.

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Step 6: While your glass is tumbling.

Get your frame ready, take the back off the frame and throw it away. Get your glue gun ready. Put the plastic or wood piece of the frame on the table. The glass piece inside of that put glue on the edges of the glass so there are no gaps between the glass and the edges of the frame. Then set it aside.

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Melanie Barker Step 7: Yay your glass is done tumbling. Get the tub off the Tumbler. Grab your strainer. Go outside, buy your water hose. Grab the strainer. Open the tub. Pour everything inside the strainer. Use your garden hose to clean. On the glass, go to your working station. After that, grab paper towels and your baby oil to shine the glass.

Then let the glass sit for two days.

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Step 8: While the glass is drying, figure out what your picture is going to be on your frame. (Examples: a flower, an animal, a tractor, etc.)

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Step 9: Yay, class is dry. Put the glass where you want it on the glass piece on the frame. When you are happy with your design or art piece, get your throw away gloves on. Then get your resin and follow the steps that you need to do to get it ready.

Pour the resin very carefully over your artwork. If your artwork moves, use. A toothpick or tweezers to fix it. Then let it dry.

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Fantastic job on your sea art!

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Melanie Barker is a Graphic Design Major at SUU. She loves to do art all the time. She has always lived in Utah. But has traveled around the world with her family. She is very passionate about her family, work, and art. Melanie likes hiking, fishing, movies, and being creative. She started writing in her Digital Tools class for her final project.