How to Make a Beach Corner Picture Frame (Arts & Crafts Tutorial)

How to Make a Beach Corner Picture Frame (ARTS & CRAFTS TUTORIAL):

You know the way a frame goes all the way around a picture?

Well - here's one that doesn't - a corner frame.

They look great, and they're so easy to make.

This was used in Series 14, Episode 10 of the British children’s TV series called “Art Attack” in 2001 (you can follow this step-by-step video if you want, it’s optional).

MATERIALS:

• cardboard box card

• poster or acrylic paint

• glue (glue stick)

• scissors

• pencil

• ruler

• black felt pen

Take a piece of A4 sized cardboard box card.

ANDRE’S TIP: To make an A4 size cardboard box, take an A4 size paper and place it onto a big cardboard box card then draw the sides of the paper onto the cardboard using pencil, and then cut it out using scissors.

Line your ruler up against the left hand edge, and mark the point 20cm up.

Repeat on the bottom edge, marking the point 20cm along.

Take the ruler away, and draw a line across from the top mark and a line up from the bottom mark.

Make them about the same length, so that you end up with a sort of L shape.

ANDRE’S TIP: You can also use an eraser/rubber to adjust your mistakes!

Cut this out.

Now, take a bigger piece of cardboard box card, and draw around the L shape onto it in pencil, to create another L shape.

The idea is to draw the front of your frame design using this L shape as a guide. Do not go below the bottom line, or your picture frame won't stand up! But you can go over the other lines in the picture. Once you've drawn your picture, you'll have something that looks like this.

ANDRE’S TIP: Pencil is best for this because when you make a mistake using pencil you can erase your mistakes and adjust it (you also can use pen if you want to!).

ANDRE’S TIP: Still not happy with your final design? You can erase it and adjust it again!

ANDRE’S TIP: How about drawing your beach corner picture frame with a palm/coconut tree, grass, a crab, and sand on it?

ANDRE’S TIP: Once you’re happy with the design (in pencil), you can finally draw it with pen.

*ANDRE’S TIP: You can also erase the pencil guidelines when you’re done drawing it with pen.

Cut the whole thing out.

Turn your front design over, and put your L shape into position on the back by lining it up with the bottom edge, and draw around it.

To create a gap to slot your picture in, you need two long thinner strips of cardboard box card about 1cm wide that fit along this drawn L shape.

ANDRE’S TIP: Use the “L shape cardboard” as a guide/template for the two 1cm long thinner strips, as shown in the video above. You can also use a ruler to refine/draw a clean straight line, and also measure the width for your long thinner strips by using a ruler.

Use some strong glue and stick them down.

Cut out a cardboard triangle, and fold it along one side.

ANDRE’S TIP: To make a cardboard triangle: draw a triangle on the cardboard like this using a ruler and pencil, cut it out, draw a line on the triangle to make the flap for your stand, and use the ruler to fold the flap perfectly.

Add strong glue along the small folding bit, and stick it to the L shape to form a stand.

ANDRE’S TIP: Still not sticking well? Keep adding more glue with a glue stick to it until it is well glued!

Add more glue on top of the cardboard strips you stuck on earlier, and stick the L shape on top of it, creating a nice slot down the middle.

ANDRE’S TIP: Keep applying more glue using a glue stick until it sticks perfectly.

When all the glue is dry, use poster or acrylic paint to make like this.

PAINTING GUIDE (REFERENCE):

1. How about painting the leaves of the coconut/palm tree and grass green?

2. Paint the trunks of the tree: brown.

3. Paint the crab: light orange or regular orange …

4. … and paint the crab’s eyes: white.

5. And finally paint the sand: light yellow.

ANDRE’S TIP: Use a smaller brush for smaller areas.

PAINTING GUIDE/ANDRE’S TIP: If you add black paint with green or brown or light yellow, you create shade and shadow cartoon effects for your tree leaves, tree trunks, grass, and sand (see 6 at the Painting Guide Reference for the results).
ANDRE’S TIP: Use a pencil as a guide for your shade in the frame.

Paint the back too, and use the back piece of cardboard as a frame stand.

PAINTING GUIDE for the BACK of the FRAME: Paint the back of the frame blue or navy blue or darker blue.

ANDRE’S TIP: Once you’re done painting, outline your beach frame with black marker pen to make it stand out (draw it like this as seen in the video above)!

Insert your picture into the frame to create a corner frame! …

ANDRE’S TIP: 1. To frame your picture: grab your *photo, *cardstock paper (thin card), and *glue stick.

2. Glue your photo/picture onto some thin card/cardstock paper, this will prevent your photo from flapping around.

ANDRE’S TIP: Here’s an example on how to frame your picture!

... Think about other designs like junk food, …

… or theme your frame to suit your picture (like a picture of New York on a New York City corner frame).

“Try it yourself!”

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Half-and-Half Caricatures Drawing Tutorial (ART ATTACK BOOK)

Me Drawing a
“HALF-and-HALF CARICATURES”
from the Art Attack Book (with Instructions)

“A caricature is a drawing that exaggerates a person’s features to make them

look funny or outrageous. Here’s a great idea to try!”

- From the Dorling Kindersley book: ‘Art Attack How to Draw with Neil Buchanan’.

From the “Art Attack How to Draw with Neil Buchanan” book by DK (Dorling Kindersley), pages 46-47: “Half-and-Half Caricatures”.

This was also used in Series 16, Episode 15 of the British children’s TV show “Art Attack” in 2003.

You Will Need:

1. Paper

2. Pencil

3. Pen

4. Old photos

ANDRE’S TIP: It doesn’t have to be an old photo; you can ask your parents to print a small photo of your friend.

5. Colouring pencils

*NOTE: I’m using regular “Crayola Colored Pencils” and special “Crayola Colors of the World Colored Pencils”. I got the “Crayola Colors of the World 24 Colored Pencils” from Shopee Philippines (on Shopee November PayDay 30 Sale in 2023).

*ANDRE’S ADVICE & TIP: The reason why I chose Crayola Colors of the World Colored Pencils is that you can get as many skin tone colors as you want for your drawing.

You also might need (ANDRE’S TIP):

6. Glue stick and also

7. Rubber/Eraser (optional).

1. Find an old photo of a friend, and cut in half. Move the bottom half to one side.

ANDRE’S TIP: It’s best to glue (with your glue stick) your photo first!

*Keep this as reference

2. Replace the bottom half of the photo with a drawing of the person’s face – but exaggerate their distinctive features!

*Why not really exaggerate their teeth and lips?

ANDRE’S TIP: If you make a mistake, you can use an eraser/rubber to erase your mistake.

3. Pay attention to their chin and mouth. Exaggerating these can really change the shape of a person’s face.

*This girl boy now has an extra-wide, cheesy smile!

4. When you’ve finished, colour it in. Try to match the colours closely to the original picture.

ANDRE’S TIP: Before you color your caricature, test your colors first by getting a scratch or separate paper then use it to test your colours for your colored pencils (as seen here), once you get the right colors you needed you can color it.

*Try to match the colours from the original photo

*It’s easier to match the exact shade with colouring pencils

ANDRE’S TIP: If you shade your colored pencil in a light pressure you get a lighter colour and if you shade the pencil with a hard pressure you get a darker colour; and here’s another tip if you blend your coloured pencils with two different colours lightly it’s not just that colors will blend well, the two colors will mix to a different color (before you can color your caricature: try experimenting first by testing two colors to mix into another color or make the two colors blend well onto a piece of scrap or separate white paper).

ANDRE’S TIP: To make a blush, color it in red lightly first and next layer it in with another colour, but this time it’s a “skin tone” color!

5. Draw a black felt pen line around the photo and drawing when you’ve finished, to bring it all together – and there you have it!

*Carefully draw around the edge

ANDRE’S TIP: If you want to carefully draw around the edge of the drawing: try turning the drawing around so you can carefully draw around it.

 *Impress your friends with your new skills!

VARIATIONS:

Why not draw a caricature of the top half of

your friend’s face instead? ...

*Caricature the top half of the face

... Or cut the photo in half lengthways,

for a side-by-side caricature!

*Side-by-side picture

ANDRE’S TIP: You don’t have to make a caricature of your friends; you can also make a caricature of famous celebrities (which is popular now!).

Try Making Your Own Caricatures

with These Photos! ...

PHOTO #1:

PHOTO #2:

“Half-and-Half Caricatures Drawing Tutorial (ART ATTACK BOOK)” Video Tutorial:

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... or follow this instead (from the

old Art Attack Website)!

Here's a great tip to help you draw really funny cartoon caricatures of people.

You will need:

• Paper

• Pencil

• An old photograph or magazine picture of someone's face

• Black felt pen

Cut the picture in half, and move the bottom half to one side.

Replace the bottom half with an exaggerated drawing of the person's features!

Use the bottom half of the photo to help you.

Pay particular attention to chins and mouths as they can really change the shape of the person's face.

When you've finished, try to match the colours as closely as you can to the original picture.

If you draw a black felt pen line around the whole thing when you've finished, it'll bring the picture together.

You could do a caricature of the person's top half instead.

Or even cut the picture out vertically and do a side by side caricature!

Try it yourself!

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*NOTE: The reason why I made this drawing tutorial is that it’s Erika Harlacher’s birthday on August 29th (which is the day the “Half-and-Half Caricatures Drawing Tutorial” video was uploaded on YouTube, this 2025). “Happy Belated Birthday, Erika Harlacher (voice actress of Ann Takamaki/Panther from Persona 5)!”

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