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:
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 last session this term - and for 2011! - the Children Made Christmas Rag Wreaths!
It was so, so easy and a great project to do to a little festive music in the background!
First of all, 3 colours of fabric were chosen. Strips of fabric were cut to approx 3 inches by 1 inch. Around 30 strips were needed of each colour.
Then the children were given a piece of wire to bend and tie into a circle, star or heart shape. Then they got busy tieing each fabric piece to the wire to fill the whole shape. Remember the order of your colours when you make yours!
So gorgeous! They even tied ribbon to the top and wrote Christmas messages in the centre.
Merry Christmas to everyone - from all of us at the Art Club!
See you next year!!
On Sunday 3rd July 2011, me and my team at Artists Resource set up a community art project at the Cally Festival, N1, London.
You can watch the 'making of' video Here:
We got to work making a Giant Octopus! Firstly, we made the structure using wire mesh and stuffed it with newspaper. We made 8 tentacles and attached them to the body using wire.
After that we propped up the Octopus and got to work covering him in plaster bandage. It was so much fun and everyone - children and adults alike - loved smoothing out all the plaster.
After the plaster stage, we then pulled out lots of gorgeous fabrics that had been donated to us from various local charity shops. We cut them into squares of roughly the same shape and painted them onto the sculpture with PVA.
The finished sculpture can be seen in the POP-UP Gallery on Caledonian Road for a week.
Thanks to all the team! We had so much fun with the community. What an amazing making day!
