Recycle with Art #1 : 3D Eye Model from EggTrays // by @christianyocte, 10% rewards to @crearte!

Hello, Draft Crearte Community!

It is again a beautiful day to express our creativity and talent through arts! This time I will share my creation of a 3D Eye Model made from the main material: EggTray Carton! This is also my participation to the contest in our community. Here’s the link of the contest if you want to join:

• Contest: Recycle with art # 1 / Create a craft using the egg carton as the main material / 50 steem in prizes.

As promised, I will participate in the contest in our community because that is one way of telling our admin and moderators that we are active, we participate and we love this community. So, without further ado, let me share my work.

Materials

1. Egg Tray Carton
2. Water
3. Glue
4. Acrylic Paint
5. Paint Brush
6. Hair Blower
7. Ice Cream Container

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Procedures

_{In an empty ice cream container, pour a half of a glass of water. Add glue to serve as a binding agent.}

_{Using your hands, tear the egg tray carton into small pieces. I used a 1 whole egg tray for this project.}

_{Here, I completely torn all the egg trays into pieces. I also used a plate to put all these pieces together neatly. It is very important to have a neat and clean workspace.}

_{Then, I transferred these pieces of torn carton into the mixture of water and glue.}

_{After that, I mixed the pieces of torn carton of an egg tray with the glue and water mixture.}

_{Then, I mold it into a round object that resembles like an eyeball.}

_{Then, I used a blow dryer to quickly dry this round object. I think it will take 24 hours to completely dry this object by air-drying method.}

_{Then, I painted using the white acrylic paint to represent the sclera.}

_{I wanted this eye model to have blue eyes, so after drying the white paint, I proceeded with the blue acrylic paint.}

_{Then I painted the pupil and the borders of the cornea blue to have a shading effect.}

_{After that, I painted the optic nerves using a red paint.}

_{I also added white and yellow paint for highlights and aesthetic effects.}

_{Here is the finished output!}

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Why I Made a 3D Eye Model

In the Philippines, particularly in the Department of Education, we celebrate the month of September as Science and Math Month. So, I was obviously inspired by that. As a teacher, I know the importance of using a model in a class discussion. It will help the students to picture out the real object and it also improved students’ engagement.

I know that when you buy a eye model in the market, it costs alot. So, this is an alternative way of making the model. The egg tray is usually given for free if you buy 12 eggs, so that means this project/model is a good replacement for that expensive model.

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What I Learned in this Contest

We can make creations that are inexpensive but still very useful if we are resourceful, creative and very imaginative! We can make projects that are very useful in our daily lives if we know how to maximize the available resources and make ways to recycle.

I think that would be all for today! I hope you enjoyed your time in my simple art blog today! See you in my next post!

@christianyocte

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By the way, I also encourage my friends to join this contest:
@grasyaa
@rye143
@olivia08
@jenesa

Best Regards To:
@DraftCrearte
@genesis171
@roseri

I also intend to share 10% of the rewards to, @crearte!