Highborder Lodge Workshop

The latest workshop on Thursday was with residents at Highborder Lodge in the village, just a small group of us. We began with some drawings of our surroundings and moved on to some printmaking.

The drawings were used to inspire the prints, first of all we tried mono printing...

 ...and had a go at press printing too

Maidenhill School workshops

We began todays workshops by looking closely at the Village Life painting and using the ideas of expression and characters features. From this we made some creative drawing using ink and stick and continuous line drawing, these came from observing photographs of school life and drawing animated features of other pupils.

Using these drawings we began to manipulate different wire to make similar shapes and features to our drawings.

Some of the work very closely resembled the drawn images and key features taken from the original images. Some really great work, only a selection of it here though!

Year 5 Workshop, Leonard Stanley School

Next to take part in the project was the village primary school. I worked with year 5 here, beginning by using different drawing techniques, particularly continuous line drawing (as this will translate well into wire work). The group began by drawing things they could see around school, outside, and in the village around them.

We used these drawings to inspire work in wire. Using a sturdy base the young people constructed a wire skeleton of their shape/ object.

Next these were covered in modroc to create a solid structure.

The finished items drying:

Once dried the class are going to paint their models, again some of them will be displayed at the village fair on the 16th July.