LOCAL MATERIALS

By: Group 5
Local Material
 Local materials are the resources
that can be found readily in large
quantity at a particular location or
area at a certain time.
Local Materials are:
 Easily obtained
 Less costly
 Practicality
 Environment friendly
 Enhance creativity
Tire
•a ring-shaped
component that
surrounds a wheel's
rim to transfer a
vehicle's load from the
axle through the wheel
to the ground

• 10 million end-of-
life tires are generated
yearly.
Artworks made by our locality out of
the material:

Swing Flower Pots

Our Own Idea
 Furnitures using tires
 Tire Sculpture
Egg Shells
•Fragile but it is
incredible strength,
weatherproof,
waterproof and
scratch resistant.
•Usually used in
mosaics
•Eggshell is easy to
obtain
Artworks made by our locality
out of the material:

Egg Shell mosaic

Our Own Ideas
 Egg Shell Sculpture
Magazine
•Traditionally, coated
papers have been the
most commonly used
when printing
magazines. Coated
papers have got a
matte or glossy, shiny
surface which also
reduce the ink
absorbancy.

•Magazine paper art

can reduce paper
waste.
Artworks made by our locality
out of the material:

Mosaic

Mosaic
Our Ideas:
 Bracelets
Empty Ballpens
•Can be easily obtained

•1.6 billion of
disposable pens are
thrown by America
every year
•These utensils are made
of plastic that doesn’t
biodegrade.
Artworks made by our locality
out of the material:
Our Idea:
 Mosaic
Bottle Caps
• A bottle cap is a
closure for the top
opening of a bottle.
A cap is sometimes
colourful decorated
with the logo of the
brand of contents.
Artworks made by our locality out of
the material:

Door Mat

Tambourine
Our Idea:
 A sculpture using bottle caps.
 A Space Art
Newspaper
• A paper that is
printed and
distributed
usually daily or
weekly and that
contains news,
articles of
opinion,
features, and
advertising.
Artworks made by our locality
out of the material:

Basket

Flower Vase
Our Idea:
 Slippers
Sea Shells
• A sea shell is a
hard
protective
outer layer
usually
created by an
animal or
organism that
lives in the
sea.
Artworks made by our locality
out of the material:

Bracelet

Necklace
Our Idea:
 Wind Chimes
TOP 3 LOCAL
MATERIALS
Plastic Bottle
Plastic Bottle
• Commonly used to store
liquids such as water, soft
drinks, motor oil, cooking
oil, medicine, shampoo,
milk and etc.
Plastic Bottle
 Disposablewater bottle
waste washes into the
ocean and kills 1.1
million marine creatures
each year.
Artworks made by our locality
out of the material:
Our Ideas:
 Bracelets
Procedure:
 The plastic bottle is cut into
strips and cover it with yarn to
cover the sharp edges of the
bottle.
 To make it artistic, we are going
to create patterns to form letters
and make a name.
Cardboard
• A Cardboard is
a paper based
material that is
much thicker
than the
standard paper
being used for
writing.
Artworks made by our locality
out of the material:
Our Ideas:
 Cosplay Costume
Used Clothes
Used Clothes:
 Clothing that has been previously owned.
 Second-hand shops are getting more and
more popular nowadays, not only because
of the vintage trend, but also because of
what it represents: recycling something
used and generally of good quality,
avoiding the accumulation of unwanted
clothes.
Artworks made by our locality
out of the material:
Our Ideas:
 Blanket
Procedure:
 Justsimply cut multiple
pieces of clothes
 Sew them together