24 January 2012
The latest addition to my ever increasing library of ‘Rubbish’ Art (unique artworks created entirely out of discarded domestic rubbish) was completed this week and has already flown to it’s new home as a little boys first birthday present from his parents.
Pretty Polly was made out of Christmas wrapping paper, yo-yo dried fruit snack wrappings, a cereal box, 2 cinema tickets, a crisps wrapper, an orange juice carton and a page of the Yellow Pages.
20 January 2012
New Year brings with it a new crop of eager little artists for my primary school art workshops. This term we’re looking at ‘Myths & Monsters’ and to warm up I let them rip (literally) on a very dull musty book I found in the charity shop. The best 20p I’ve ever spent – the resulting layering of the children’s doodles over the Greek Mythology text works a treat. Now that our doodling fingers are well and truly warmed up and paint splattered, we’re looking forward to tackling ‘The man on the moon’ next week. Moons to be made out of lots of squished tin cans. Naturally.
