Week 11

I have had a great creative week with bits and bobs getting finalised. Collagraph prints coming along nicely for the Utterby exhibition, still waiting to get my acid etching prints done but the print room has been closed all week due to the London trip so I will try to get in there next week. (I have no patience)

I have also just finished editing another film but nothing too special and had a dabble at being a mentor for the year zero group just to help them through any doubts they might have about the degree years to come.

I have also had a few experiments on the large candle for Wootton school, I tried some speedball printing inks on the gold base layer and they covered really well but the drying time was too long. there will be 54 children throughout the day in intervals so the ink would need to have dried before the next set of children make their mark.

Caroline Jackson, Sue Riemer & Myself had a full day at Wootton school with the children, the aim to make the 6' 4" candle a work of art all the children could be involved in. We decided that poster paint and acrylics would be a better idea and that a heat gun would help with the drying time or even just to put a skin upon the surface so that it could be worked over.

 

 

 

This was a totally brilliant day and I hope the children enjoyed it as much as we did. We actually managed to get all the children at Wootton school involved, from nursery, reception classes and key stages 1 & 2 and they all made their own mark on the piece either a thumb print, hand print, their initials or a logo that they had designed themselves. It was great to see all the children so enthusiastic and creative and the staff were brilliant too for making us so welcome and just getting on with it. We were also invited to the assembly in the morning and afternoon to hear the kids sing and have Snake Davis (Eurythmics and M People saxophone player) play for us. the kids made the school proud with their singing it was fab.

 

 And now the nearly finished product. I will give a few days for the paints to dry properly then spray with varnish and then paint a good few coats of varnish on the top. The base board will be fitted so it is free standing and then the relief work added and a brass plaque will be fitted and all will be ready for the school to hand over to the diocese of the church to commemorate the 200 yrs of church schools.

WELL DONE KIDS!

 And now a manic weekend trying to finish an essay draft and then off to Utterby aarrgghhhhhhh!