Rothley recycled rainbow is installed!

Stars for Japan

Tonight's after school club in Cossington focused on the Olympic value of EXCELLENCE and we linked that to stars and 'being a star'. We made origami stars and talked about Japan and it's excellence in creating origami, the Japanese art of paper folding. At the end, as it was so sunny, we took our stars and 'frizbeed' them across the field to see who's went the furthest!

Bible banner

I started this project on Wednesday at the Methodist church craft group. It's a banner in silk which depicts the whole story of the Bible, very abbreviated, from Genesis to the Resurrection!

Silk painting workshop

Today, at Rawlins, I ran my first silk painting workshop for adults. Happily, we had a brilliant day and everyone who attended made two bookmarks, a painting to frame and a beautiful silk scarf. Tiffany glass, art nouveau and even Miro inspired a huge variety of designs and everyone experimented with colour mixing, paint effects and composition. The feedback was absolutely fantastic so I will certainly be doing another one in the near future.

Take a look at the gallery of work produced..

Burton-on-the Wolds MURAL PROJECT revealed!

The BIG JOB this week, for me and the years 5 and 6's of Burton Primary school, Leicestershire, has been to paint a giant wall mural based on ideas around the rainforest and jungle. Such a lot of hard work, sweat and paint has gone into it, mainly because we have to finish it TOMORROW! See what you think so far....

Friendship around the world

This evening, at Cossington Primary, a group of children made peg people with me, for our first of three sessions on the Olympic values of friendship, excellence and respect. This session, friendship, was a good excuse to make these fabulous people from around the world. Each participant made two people from different continents and acted out ways in which they could be friends- like internet, phone or travel.

Arty Party

This is my new venture through Rawlins- arty parties! Yesterday I did a 16 strong birthday party on caricatures....drawing all of the children (and parents!)and teaching everyone how to draw their own. It was a lot of fun and might just catch on!

If you or anyone are interested in booking a party, please contact the community office at Rawlins!

recycled rainbow

At Rothley, a group of children have decided to make a recycled rainbow for their project with me! We are collecting coloured plastic recycling and cutting and threading it onto wire (kindly donated by the Candlestick factory in Sileby). This process is quite theraputic and it is building up really well. The rainbow will be big enough to walk through!

World Community Arts Day 2011- a huge success!

12 volunteers, 60 participants, a vat of marbelling inks, box of marker pens, two bags of clay, two dozen balls of wool and several boxes of beads made this year's World Community Arts Day absolutely amazing. All ages, all abilities, all together for six workshops in the art department at Rawlins. This event is made possible by the generous artists who give their time and expertise for free. Thank you everyone who helped and attended! Hayley x