Yesterday I hosted my last Art Appreciation class with the group for this current year.Such fun to make serapes and see the class practice dancing.I will miss them and all the focus that they given me over the past year. I do have a signed photo including all their signatures -pretty cool for 1st graders.Thanks to all the Mums who have helped in the class over the year.I hope that this talented group continue to explore their art.
I like to swap and trade craft.When planning a tour with 25 6 years old on Saturday afternoon it began invaluable.50 hands holding pieces and not touching anything else.
This morning there was anunusual bird song in our hedge.I’ve just spent 10 minutes trying to track it down.Eventually after being still and using my eyes I caught a movement.A baby Junco fledging on the back rail begging from it Father.Will post an image of a Junco as my UK lot will have no idea what it is-one more bird species I’ve learned.
Great Day but just going to share some pages for now
So for me writing that makes sense is always a challenge.For this reason anyone who can write poetry I really respect and admire.
I’ve mentioned Happygrams before and yesterday received this beautiful poem and orb web spider created by Lo.I’m currently creating a mixed media forest setting so have been making tree bark.I burnt rather too large of a hole in the charring process so can now make this a focal point using Lo’s spider.It adds another story to the piece which in time I will share.
So I started to experiment with hand dyeing fabric a while back.I don’t do this very often and tend to hoard the fabric produced.The left hand page is one experiment and has E’s crochet flowers from Norway.The right hand page is pure play and I like it.
So we were discussing color in class and one boy said “black is not a color”.Four months on I’m still coming back to this statement.
This book is made of papercloth embellished with vintage,gifted and handmade beads.Bound with hand-dyed floss from a happygram.
The tag is hidden in the folds of the book to be a secret message as to it’s components creators.
So the brief was a recycled gallery project for Art Appreciation group.
We had a ball making butterfly gardens from the wrappings of all my international swaps
I was asked to help finish this quilt created by a blind knitter.Interesting project.Funds from it sale will help education in Ethiopia.
Today’s art class Gallery
We have only one more project to go and I have really enjoy seeing the classes creativity this was upcycled/recycled papercraft.Papers by my CO+K friends.Backing came in my new suitcase .Stickers were gifted.
We have a fantastic resource in an overhead camera which is hooked to the white board.This enables the students to see my hands as I create so butterfly making technique was a breeze.
We also had lots of Mums monitoring which made a huge different
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