This Week the children made their own Wire Sculpture Self Portaits.
They were given the Works of Alexander Caulder to look at and I gave them instructions on how to make the main frame.
After they got the main structure, they could then use buttons, tissue paper and thinner wire to make the features of the face, using mirrors as reference.
Here are my two favourites from the group as they worked the hardest to get them complete:
Each child was given a sheet or two of cardboard, 5 or 6 cardboard rolls (huge thanks to my mum for saving them for us!), a roll of selotape, 5 or 6 paper cups, coloured card and paper, some string, a few wooden kebab sticks, and some oil pastels.
The children loved making their castles, each one had unique characteristics. Some had flags, some had ladders, some had canons, some had drawbridges and others had gardens!
On July 8th we made a Giant Bird with the public at The Kilburn Festival!
We made a Kingfisher because Kingfishers are on of the only birds who have species found across the planet! We thought this fitted nicely into the Festivals theme of Community, Inclusivity and Diversity.
So we made an inner armature from wood and then covered it with wiremesh and newspaper.
Then we covered the whole thing in Plaster and decorated it with hundreds of fabric squares.
The Festival also had an Olympics theme, so the colours we chose were the same colours of the Olympic rings!
You can watch a 2minute video of the making of the Giant Bird here! ->
We had such a great day! Thanks to everyone who took part.
The Mayor of Camden invited us to display the finished piece in the local Town Hall!
If you would like us to create something special for your Event, we would love to be a part of it!
To celebrate May Day and The Crouch End Festival 2012, Leona and one of her assistants from Artist's Resource went to Stationers Park, N8, to make a life size Sculpture of a sheep! But not just any sheep - a psychedelic one!
You can Watch the video of the making of the Psychedelic Sheep Sculpture by clicking on this photo below:
Leona and Miriam started off in Hornsey Vale Community Centre, making the main structure of the sheep. We used wiremesh, wire and newspaper to construct the sheeps body, head, legs, tail and decorative swirls on it's back to represent the wooly coat.
When the wire stage was complete, we took the sculpture outside to start on the plaster stage with the public. Anyone could join in! It was so much fun meeting local parents and children who all helped cover the sheep in plaster.
When the plaster had dried, we went onto the next stage - covering it with 100's of squares of fabric! We had so many gorgeous fabrics to choose from! Everyone had lots of fun gluing their chosen fabric squares onto the sheep sculpture.
When the sculpture was complete, we donated the finished piece to Hornsey Vale Community Centre, N8 so that everyone who visits this fabulous place can see and enjoy all our hard work.
For the first (rainy!) week back of Summer Term, the children got busy designing and making their own Theme Park Ride! I had been saving up my plastic pots and tubs for months and now we could finally use them.
The children had a choice of up to 6 plastic items, a roll of electrical tape, clear solotape, cardboard and kebab sticks. They were all given a wooden man to make sure that their rides were all a similar size - all 'to scale'.
They made some fantastic rides. The photo above was of a spinning ride - that actually spun! Brilliant.
The above photo shows a 'Flume' type ride which the little wooden man provided came sliding down and into the pot below!
The above photo shows a multi-ride - a swing, a tunnel and huts to climb into - all in one!
And below are two very fabulous 'Waltzer' type rides - looking good!
The final Theme Park assembled with just some of the finished rides - you can see a pirate ship in the back right - and the wooden man just off centre left. Brilliant work everyone. Well done!
