In the second stage of ‘Our Creative Community: Inspired by Samantha Bryan‘, Natalie organises another workshop to be led by artist and fairy-maker, Samantha Bryan. Samantha is an artist identified from the Yorkshire Sculpture Park trip by the group as an artist they wanted to work with to inspire the development of ‘Fairyfields’. In part two of this workshop and with the help of Samantha Bryan, pupils create their fairy bodies.

Fairies Inspired By Samantha Bryan Workshop by Natalie Deane

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Pedagogy in 250 Words: Making is Hard

Curriculum Links

Maths: Measuring, 2D and 3D Shapes

Science: Weight, Position, Direction & Movement, Shadows, Forces and Gravity

I Can…

I have explored the work of a sculptor/designer and seen they explore shape, form, line, colour and balance to make mobiles (kinetic sculptures).
I can use my sketchbook to make visual notes to record and reflect. I can progress these notes into drawings in their own right.
I can use my sketchbook to research the types of elements I might make, linking to an appropriate topic or idea.
I can use the Design Through Making technique to create elements (shapes or forms) using colour, marks, etc, and see how these elements balance as a mobile. I can handle materials and tools and I can persevere when I need to.
I can present and share my work, talk about it with my classmates, and listen to their responses to my work. I can review my own work and think about what I might do differently.
I can respond to the work made by my classmates and I can share my thoughts.
I can take photographs of my work, thinking about focus, light and composition.

Time

This pathway takes 6 weeks, with an hour per week. Shorten or lengthen the suggested pathway according to time and experience.

Materials

Drawing materials, Large sheets of cartridge paper, Glue sticks, Foam board or Cardboard, Wooden kebab skewers (or Dowling or thin green garden canes), String.

Pathway: Explore Sculpture Through Making a Mobile

A PDF of this pathway can be found here.

Aim of the Pathway

The aim of the pathway is to give children the opportunity to explore line, shape, form and colour in three dimensions, challenging themselves to make a sculpture which balances and moves.
Week 1: Introduce

Introduce Alexander Calder

Introduce children to the work of Alexander Calder with “Talking Points: Alexander Calder“.

Follow the prompts on the “Discussion & Sketchbook Work” part of the “Talking Points: Alexander Calder” to develop understanding through sketchbooks and conversation. Encourage children to create “Visual Notes” in their sketchbooks as they watch.
Week 2: Sketchbooks & Prep

Show Me What You See

Revisit “Talking Points: Alexander Calder” and this time make a series of drawings in sketchbooks based upon the “Sketchbook Development Work” section.

You may like to use the resource “Show Me What You See” for guidance on running the session. Encourage the children to not just make drawings of Calder’s mobiles, but also to understand how these drawings can begin to exist in their own right as images.
Week 3, 4 & 5: Draw, Paint, Cut, Build

Drawing & Making

Explore the “Mobile Construction Methods” post and the “Heavy/Light Mobile – Drawing and Making” resource. You may also like to see the “Kinetic Mobile Sculpture” resource – switching the knives for scissors.

Decide which method is right for your class. You can also tie the project into an existing classroom theme, for example an exploration of weather, or colour, or costume…

Spend one or two lessons researching (use sketchbooks) and making the “elements” before going on to construct the elements into a mobile in the next week.
Week 6: Share and discuss

Share, Reflect, Celebrate

End the pathway by taking time to appreciate the developmental stages and the final outcomes in a clear space.

Display the work appropriately including having open sketchbooks. Use the “Crit in the Classroom” resource to help you.

Encourage children to reflect upon all stages of the journey.

If available, children can use tablets or cameras to take photographs of the work.

Explore how children can take high quality photographs of 3d artwork with this resource.

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Our Creative Community: Inspired by Samantha Bryan Part Two

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