Can anyone give me any inspiration for a piece of art work with bottle caps?

Question

I have started collecting bottle caps, can anybody give me any ideas for what to do with them? Like a big mural or something. Examples of people's work on the internet would be good too! Thanks!

Answer 1

Flowers !! a big mural of a poppy field or a 'host of golden
daffodils' you might get up there with Tracy Emin !!!!

Answer 2

Yes, all good art causes a person to stop and ponder its meaning regardless of the viewers age or socio-economic status.

Collect caps of all kinds, not just bottle caps, from the various stages of life a human being passes through. Against a painted back drop done with different symbols done in different mediums, use and align the caps in sequence to represent the milestones in a person's life.

Tell the story of a life with the caps. Your visual of life can begin, progress, and end how ever your hopeful or lurid tastes suit you. Think about what is the very first "cap" that shows up in your life and then the very last.

Good luck. Send me a jpg image of it when you are done!

Answer 3

http://www.thelimit.com/mri/mri.htm
http://www.post-gazette.com/ae/20021114imaginationp2.asp
http://www.hammergallery.com/Artists/Mr%20I/Mr_I.htm

I actually met Mr. Imagination and toured his gallery (which is also his home) and it was one of the biggest treats in my life. I have a sandstone sculpture of a pyramid. He mostly works in bottle caps -- the old fashioned kind with cork on the inside.

A mural showing color changes would be a good idea. Take a walk around your neighborhood maybe you will get an idea. I really think the idea should be yours and not one from us.

Answer 4

We saw an artist last summer that did paintings on them, all of a gothic nature... Very detailed and really cool... He said the idea occured to him during the preceeding winter.. The weather was really bad, and he did not want to go out and get supplies, and got the idea to paint the soda caps he was collecting... He was selling them for $10 or $12 a piece, and sales were brisk...

Answer 5

When I was younger taking art classes, the most fun I had was doing a project similar to this. I got some friends together, went outside and found some twigs leaves ect and soaked them in paint, different colors. We threw the sticks and leaves and other junk we found outside onto the canvas. We had a lot of fun and it turned out really interesting. Later on I found it easier to brainstorm and convey ideas, rather than just a random abstract. But when its finished, you can look it over and figure out what you see in it. ha for sure do this outside though, and wear junk clothes.

Answer 6

Hi just type in art work with bottle caps in google in images and it will come up with lots of photos of ideas for you to create, things with them..have fun....Happy new year

Answer 7

What about a portrait?
Why not a portrait of an artist like Andy Warhol, maybe somebody instantly recognisable like Princess Diana or a face with a lot of character like Mick Jagger?

Another one would be a large map of the world, diffrent coloured tops for diffrent countries.

Answer 8

Make a pic of a kidney,since soft drinks are hard on them and can cause kidney infections, and donate it to the local dialisys center.

Merry Christmas!

Answer 9

make an AA mural out of them

Answer 10

stick them on a large black rock surrounded by sand and associate them with shell fish and our destruction of the marine environment........slightly lifted edges withe eyes peeping out of the darkness etc.