Celebrate Earth Day 2012 with a unique recycling art project!

Earth Day 2012 will be here in a flash!  David Heatwole, founder of the Transcendental Arts Council, invites you to make this a memorable event with a Put A Lid On It (PALOI) Project.  Purchase a masterpiece art kit (or two!)  and work on a mural easily with your school!  RECYCLE, LEARN ABOUT ART TECHNIQUES, COLOR THEORY, TEACH ABOUT AN MASTER ARTIST, WORK AS A TEAM, and many more lessons.  CALL TODAY to learn more about the Masterpiece Art Kit

Cezanne’s “Basket of Apples” made out of plastic bottle lids

Musselman High School National Art Honor Society and other volunteer students and staff created 2 Masterpiece Art Kit murals the second one was a  reproduction of the painting “Basket of Apples” by Paul Cezanne.  The students and all involved did an excellent job!

Rene Magritte’s “The Son of Man” honored in a mural

Musselman High School National Art Honor Society and other volunteer students and staff created 2 Masterpiece Art Kit murals the first one was a zoomed in view of  the painting titled “The Son of Man” by Surrealist artist Magritte.

What is a PALOI Masterpiece Art Kit?

What is a PALOI Masterpiece Art Kit?

It is a large mural project that is as simple as a paint-by-number to construct:

Your school and community use plastic bottle lids in place of paint to create a colorful mural patterned after an art masterpiece.  The mural kits come in four different  s i z e s or can be custom made specifically to fit your mural location.  The finished murals measure 8 feet by 16 feet, 12′ x 32′, 16′ x 40′, or 20′ x 56′ in both horizontal and vertical sizes.

What are the benefits?

PALOI offers a number of benefits:

• a low-cost, fun, and instructional art project
• unites your school and the community around the importance of recycling and upcycling*
• teaches through active participation
• helps your students become environmental stewards
• fulfills statewide learning objectives while constructing a high profile art masterpiece

How does it work?

How does a PALOI project work?

1. Purchase a PALOI project kit for as low as $2500.  Kit includes prepared plexiglass, special adhesive, banners, gloves and instructions.
2. Save thousands of non-recyclable plastic bottle lids (of any shape, size and color)
3. Volunteers affix the lids to sheets of clear plexiglass overlaying full color banner templates.
4. The finished mural services as a larger-than-life reproduction of an art masterpiece that your school and community can admire for year to come.  Some masterpiece choices include:

• A field of Tulips in Holland, Claude Monet

• The Walk, Woman with a Parasol, by Claude Monet

• Starry Night, by Vincent VanGogh

 

• The Basket of Apples, Paul Cazanne

 

• Sunday afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, Georges Seurat

 

• Woman in front of a mirror, Pablo Picasso

This is just a few masterpieces that we feel would make for a good community project.  There are thousands of paintings to choose from by master artists of yester year as  well as today.  Let us help you create a project with your school or community organization.