Thanks to all who came along to this co-creating zoom meet. We hope you enjoyed it geeking out with us over antique tins and what we can put in them! We hope you got a few ideas. We certainly loved hearing from everyone at the end and we all learnt from each other.
Things you can include in a tiny tin:
All sorts of little treasures as gifts, time capsules, watercolour paper for swatching, cut out watercolour pieces that we’ve messed up but cut up create a new opportunity to start afresh, cut out little drawings, find scraps, journal entries, tiny cut out eyes to glue onto shapes to make them into characters (genius), pairing up cards.
Where to find tins?
In person: Flea markets, antique shops, antique fairs, car boot sales (best price), charity shops/thrift shops
Online: eBay, etsy, Facebook marketplace
Other options as containers: Matchboxes (all sizes), cardboard boxes (all sorted)
A few more things mentioned:
Book binding video by Peg and Awl on YouTube
Earth Pigments picked up in the Lake District made by www.PurePigment.co.uk
And check out Peg and Awl website full of treasures and Of A Kinds.
When painting plein air, you may be able to use vodka in painting as it doesn’t freeze - we want to try this!
Sardine tins and antique shop in Ile de Re, France (see image below)
During the call…
Thanks to everyone for sharing your projects with us!
Thanks Cheryl for your snowy landscape, Naomi for your cat tin, Emma for your little sketchbooks in tins, Sam for your delicious food in a tin, Amy for baubles in a chocolate tin from Berlin, Susan for showing us your cut out illustrations and tins, Julia for your bottle paintings in a cigarette tin and we hope you figured a away to open the other one (thanks Emma for your suggestions) and Beth for your adorable mice and Trader Joe’s box full of swatches! Thanks also to those who shared after the call. They’re all so very precious!!!
Read Margaux’s post on this event here.
Since the zoom call…
A little project I created for Mike since yesterday was the anniversary of our meeting (it was snowing). I took inspiration from Cheryl’s snowy 3D landscape and recreated this view from Victoria Terrace in Edinburgh. We had this pic taken of us a year after meeting when we were engaged. I gave this little tiny treasure to Mike yesterday and he loves it!!
Thanks for watching this, do be in touch if you create something from this, we would love to see it!
Talk soon on the Time Foragers Club with more co-creating meetings.
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