Watch this video of WOW.
Many of the costumes in WOW are multi-media creations, and require plastics, wood, and cloth.
Can you create a piece of textile art this week, maybe using some of the ideas you've seen in WOW. There are hundreds of places online to go for textile inspiration, and many tips, tutorials and inspirations from textile artists.
I enjoyed thinking about ideas of printing cloth, trapping sequins and looking for photo inspiration in Catharinablog, Sew Danish, and Judy Scott blogspot.
Monday 30 January 2012
Monday 23 January 2012
Secret art
Your assignment this week, which you cannot refuse to accept, is to create a piece of art at home, then transport it to another place to leave it there.
You could make a drawing, create a sculpture, make an item of craft from bead and wire, paint a picture. Make whatever you would like, but you must leave it in a place we'll visit. If you wish to label it, do so, but you can leave it with no message if you wish.
To inspire you, watch this video about Scotland's secret sculptor.
You could make a drawing, create a sculpture, make an item of craft from bead and wire, paint a picture. Make whatever you would like, but you must leave it in a place we'll visit. If you wish to label it, do so, but you can leave it with no message if you wish.
To inspire you, watch this video about Scotland's secret sculptor.
Monday 16 January 2012
Mail art
Send mail art this week. As Wiki explains:
'Mail art is a worldwide cultural movement that began in the early 1960s and involves sending visual art (but also music, sound art, poetry, etc.) through the international postal system.'
Scroll this mail art blogspot to see postcard examples.
Multi-media projects can grow out of mail art; see this video on youtube to set you thinking.
Talk about your ideas on these words: Art out of control.
Find out about Ray Johnson.
And some lucky person in Buckinghamshire will soon receive my own hand-crafted joy on an envelope. (I bet they can barely breathe in anticipation.) But we can call both sender and receiver an experiment in mail art.
'Mail art is a worldwide cultural movement that began in the early 1960s and involves sending visual art (but also music, sound art, poetry, etc.) through the international postal system.'
Scroll this mail art blogspot to see postcard examples.
Multi-media projects can grow out of mail art; see this video on youtube to set you thinking.
Talk about your ideas on these words: Art out of control.
Find out about Ray Johnson.
And some lucky person in Buckinghamshire will soon receive my own hand-crafted joy on an envelope. (I bet they can barely breathe in anticipation.) But we can call both sender and receiver an experiment in mail art.
Monday 9 January 2012
Fun with frottage
Ladies, a definition and example of frottage is given on the cover of your new sketchbooks.
Try it this week; see what you make. Don't look in the house. Rub the outdoors. Streets, signs and textures. Don't scribble over the face of old farmer Chang though; his life is hard enough.
For examples and ideas, try All About Drawings.
And if you want to think about it... Wiki says Max Ernst 'invented a graphic art technique called frottage'. I think Ernst brought the approach into the range of drawing techniques used by graphic artists, and so encouraged its acceptability, but inventing is a bit strong. What do you think? Is frottage an approach to mark making and communication that you can imagine people doing for generations?
Try it this week; see what you make. Don't look in the house. Rub the outdoors. Streets, signs and textures. Don't scribble over the face of old farmer Chang though; his life is hard enough.
For examples and ideas, try All About Drawings.
And if you want to think about it... Wiki says Max Ernst 'invented a graphic art technique called frottage'. I think Ernst brought the approach into the range of drawing techniques used by graphic artists, and so encouraged its acceptability, but inventing is a bit strong. What do you think? Is frottage an approach to mark making and communication that you can imagine people doing for generations?
Monday 2 January 2012
Geology and Michelangelo
Visit the Saylor art course video on carving marble, from the quarry to the finished sculpture.
For a demonstration of carving with traditional tools, watch an artist at work.
Who wants to give this a go?
For a demonstration of carving with traditional tools, watch an artist at work.
Who wants to give this a go?
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