The foxes are watching. And waiting…
Beware of foxes
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Decoupage discs
Varnished decoupage plates for the art club at Singlegate Primary School this afternoon. I’ve got a big pile of magazines so I hope the children have fun making some of these. Thanks Jill for helping make the demonstration models!
Wandle boat race
The sun sparkled on the water for the boat race today with families from Liberty School – the final session of the London Voices project with the National Trust at Morden Hall Park. We had several heats to determine the overall winner. Sculptor Simon Kent also brought down the oak slabs that he will carve using the families’ designs to create the ‘story boat’ to be installed in the park in July, and we all had a go at carving.
Ready for racing
I’ve varnished all the boats and made and printed calico sails from the families’ designs for the big boat race on the Wandle on Tuesday – the final session of the London Voices workshops with Liberty School at Morden Hall Park. I’m really looking forward to the race – and the weather looks very promising.
Settling in
This week I have been settling in to the new studio space at The Old Sweet Shop.
Oh! What’s this?
Rabbit has found something rather interesting.
River poems and a chainsaw
Today’s London Voices workshop at Morden Hall Park was great fun despite the blustery rainy weather. We began with a treasure hunt for words hidden in the bark of trees, under ivy fronds and in fence crevices, then made them into river poems, then the families made drawings in the sketchbooks we made last week using Japanese book-binding. Meanwhile Simon showed how he uses a chainsaw for carving and made an eel…
…which we followed with a big game of ‘Eels Out!’
Mini Mountaineers
Maxwell and Myrtle have completed a challenging climb, past the pencil precipice, the crayon crevasse and on to the steep slab of the boxwood ruler – not for the fainthearted. The climb is rated 5b. The idea came after looking at Camilla Engman‘s very inspiring blog.
Eels out!
I’ve designed and made a set of badges in a bag ready for a giant game of Eels Out! with the families from Liberty School at the London Voices workshop next week with the National Trust at Morden Hall Park. The creatures on the badges are all found in or around the river Wandle.
Singlegate mural takes shape
The Monday art club at Singlegate Primary School in Colliers Wood have been hard at work painting out their designs for the four-panel mural. It’s on a railway theme, but with some extras like a blue rainbow and a flock of coloured birds.