Tactile art project: Mexican tin art

[kestrell]

The Art of Darkness blog has a link to this tutorial for a Mexican Dia de Los Muertos tin nicho or altar
http://craftingforcheapskates.blogspot.com/2012/07/tin-altar.html#!/2012/07/tin-altar.html
using disposable aluminum baking pans. I've investigated kits for making similar tin panels, and they are extremely expensive, so this idea is economically as well as artistically accessible, although I would opt for something less dangerous than Xacto knives and hot glue guns. Also, if you use some sort of black wash over the tin, you can get a nice antiqued effect, which makes it a great medium for creating spooky Halloween effects (think gnarled old oak tree, serpentine monsters, haunted house, etc.).

Comments

[kestrell]

I didn't explicitly ask the questions, but I think the general question of accessibility is implicit in almost all of our communications. I have a lot of anxiety aout using sharpobjects which I think is actually a holdover from when I was low vision and, while I intellectually understand that the sharper the blade, the easier the process and the less likely to result in accidents, I can't make myself actually pick up what I think of as scarily sharp blades. I also have a Kevlar-type [sp?] glove which I bought from someone vendor for blind folks, so I have something to protect my guide hand when I use sharp thingies.