Making a Giant Bird at The Kilburn Festival

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!

Please contact Leona via http://www.artists-resource.co.uk  for more information.

CityScapes

Last session the Children made pop up cardboard CityScapes. 
It was a super simple project and really easy once they understood how it worked.

First of all they were given a cityscape view and they had to observe it closely. The children looked for objects in the foreground, middle ground and background. They made drawings of these elements on seperate sheets of the same size pieces of card.

Then they cut out each element and stuck it to a 'tab', which made the element stand up on its own - like a pop up!

They carried on with this process and arranged each element behind the next until the full view, with the foreground, middle ground and background, were complete.

The finished CityScapes look fabulous!

The Crouch End Festival 2012 - Community Artwork

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.

Well done everyone!

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Visionary Self Portraits in Clay

Following on from last week, the children continued with the Visionary Self Portrait theme, but this time in 3D form, using clay.

They each had a mirror to look closely at the structure of their faces, but they could also choose from images of flowers, animals and more to add to their finished artwork.

Here are just some of the completed ones - enjoy!

Visionary Self Portraits

This week the children made Visionary Self Portraits. 

They did this using photographs of themselves with wax crayons and collage. They drew over the photographs with the wax crayons and added collaged visions of what they were thinking about, what they enjoyed or what they would like to be when they grow up.

Here are some of the results!