Cookie Cutters and Art

Who says cookie cutters should be used just for cooking?

Why not let your creative juices flow and use kitchen instruments in your art? Great for adding texture to paint, impasto and modeling compound. Use glue, paper mache on canvas and use a variety of kitchen utensils to create interesting textures that can be painted over with acrylics.

Here’s a tip, shape out some paper mache or modeling compound and use a variety of different cookie cutter shapes to create 9 different shapes, then lay these down on the canvas in a 3×3 format.

Next, paint your whole canvas in a soft background tone, depending on the colours of your room – for example a soft baby blue or a pale pink.

Finally, pick out a darker colour to your babckground colour (eg: if the background is blue, then choose a nice lilac or violet) and paint in your 3D shapes that you made with your cookie cutters. A simple and effective artwork that could be used to dress up a nursery for a child. Great 3D shapes that children can touch and feel.

There are heaps of places to buy cookie cutters, and heaps of sites on the web where you can order online. A simple search under “cookie cutter” will bring up heaps.

Find a cookie cutter online at www.cookiecutteronline.com