Saturday 25 August 2012

Our Exhibition!

We had a great day last Sunday at our exhibition.  Lots of people came along to see our art and we were very happy at the amount of good comments that people left for us on our 'comment tree'!

We raised £250 for Special Smiles and we think that we promoted recycling really well by showing how it can be done creatively and in a fun way.

We would like to say a big thank you to all the people that supported us - making donations of materials for the art, donating tombola prizes, helping out on the day and to all the people who came to see our art!!












Sunday 19 August 2012

Art of Recycling Exhibition is Today!!

Our 'Art of Recycling' exhibition is being held today at Tickton Village Hall from 10:00am until 4:00pm.

Come along and see the art we have made from recycled materials - have a cup of tea and a bun, have a go on the Tombola, play on our CD air hockey game, guess the name of the giraffe, and learn all about making recycling fun!

Everyone is welcome and entry is only £1 for adults, 50p for children/conc, under 5s free, so please come along and help us raise lots of money for Special Smiles!

Thank you!





Friday 17 August 2012

CD air hockey!

Us playing with our CD air hockey that we made out of old CD's:




Saturday 11 August 2012

Today we went to see two artists called Nicki and Helen! They were both very nice and gave us plenty of ideas and advice for our art exhibition! Helen let us borrow some of her equipment and she also gave us some of her spare old material. We showed her some of the recycled clocks that we'd made and she was very impressed!
Nicki showed us how to make paper mache animals using old newspaper and wire. They were all very good and it encouraged us to have a go at making some ourselves!

When we got back we decided to have a go at making a paper mache elephant! We made a basic elephant shape out of some old chicken wire and then we put a layer of old newspaper around it and secured it down with lots of tape. After that we made a paste using flour, water and salt. We then dipped strips of newspaper into the paste and covered the elephant with it! All we have to do now is wait for it to dry properly before we do the next layer!

This is the chicken wire sculpture of the elephant:


This is us putting on the newspaper layer:


This is us adding on the paste layer:

 

Saturday 4 August 2012

Today we also went to a photography studio to get some snap shots of us!
We are planning on sticking recycled materials around the edge of our faces on the funny pics, to form a wacky hairstyle!
This worked well!
It was also quite fun!!

This is us at the studio:




This is a pic of us creating our wacky hairstyles on our funny pictures:





Today we spent a whole 27 hours between us on making art for the Bin Buddies Exhibition! 

We made an amazing, big heart-shaped jigsaw piece of art out of 4 old jigsaw puzzles and a full can of bright red spray paint!
It looked great!!

This is a picture of us making the jigsaw puzzle art:




We then spray painted it red:


We also made some other pieces of art that looked equally as cool! They were made out of floppy disks that were spray painted different colours!