Tuesday, June 05, 2007

We've Been Inspired



A local art gallery held a grand opening of their new show recently which I had hoped to attend but wasn't able. As part of the display one of the artists created this nature web using hand dyed wool. We went to visit it after seeing the work in the newspaper. We all fell in love with it and have been inspired to try something similar of our own. Although we don't have two trees this large we thought we could create a frame with our large collection of sticks...we will keep you posted.
On that note we have been talking about having a week of experimenting with sculpting art. The summer gives us more space to think big. On brain storming we thought of
*air drying clay
*using recycled materials to build a statue
* paper mache
*large wire and material garden fairies
*mosaics made of stone, sand, flowers, sticks, etc.
*pouring cement into different molds
*carving poured plaster
*inviting friends and their material to create a sculpture
*wind chimes with different materials
*asking friends to each create a piece of art work in their garden and have a garden tour

3 comments:

grammyjan said...

Here's a challenge - How about a piece of edible (to outdoor creatures) art?

gardening gal said...

First I am like "who is gjan" ? It took me a minute :) Edible art, thats a good one....I am sure they would prefer it to be edible for them though!!!

grammyjan said...

I keep forgetting my password! So I have to keep it simple!