Astronaut Paper Body Casts by Gillian Adair McFarland

By Gillian Adair McFarland

This is a workshop I ran as a visiting artist with a year 6 class from Leicester Grammar School ,who wanted a non messy, big impact project in a day.

Figures on wall - Astronaut body casts with Gillian Adair McFarland — Figures on the wall – Astronaut body casts with Gillian Adair McFarland

We decided on the theme of space exploration to fit with Tim Peake going to the International Space Station.

To access all content, I would like to join as…

An Individual

Creative practitioners, educators, teachers, parents, learners...

Creative practitioners, educators, teachers, parents, learners…

An Organisation…

Schools, Colleges, Arts Organisations: Single and Multi-Users

Schools, Colleges, Arts Organisations: Single and Multi-Users

AccessArt is a UK Charity and we believe everyone has the right to be creative. AccessArt provides inspiration to help us all reach our creative potential.

See This Resource Used In Schools…

Year 5
Year 5
Year 5
year 5

Water and Rock: Teenagers explore building drawings with graphite and modroc

Barbie & Ken Transformation

Year 3 & 4 Making Club: Animal Parade – Week Three

Year 3 & 4 Making Club: Animal Parade – Week Two

Year 3 & 4 Making Club: Animal Parade – Week One

Long Legged Animals by Years 3 & 4 Making Club

Paperback Figures: Collaged, Relief Sculptures

You May Also Like….

Visual Arts Planning Collections: Cardboard and paper

Book art with Primary children

Making 2d & 3d Fashion Designs with Painted and Decorated Paper

Red to Green: Making Sculpture

Red to Green: Patterns in Nature, Line and Wire

Aspire to Create: Inspired by Nature & Empowered by Creativity – Red to Green

One: Casting

Exploring mark making into wet clay, mould making, mixing and pouring plaster

Two: Patterns in Nature, Line and Wire

Using drawing to look at designs and patterns in nature to inspire the creation of wire sculpture

Three: Taking Rubbings and Making Compositions

Recording the surrounding world by taking rubbings

Four: Block Printing

Learners are introduced to block printing

Five: Monoprinting

Exploring texture, pattern and mark making through monoprinting

Six: Steps to Observational Drawing

Four steps to enabling observational drawing

Seven: Making Sculpture

Learners explore sculptural principles of form, space and balance

Eight: Wax Resist and Scraffito

Introducing colour with wax resist and scraffito techniques

Red to Green: Casting

3D Drawing with Paper: Texture – Surface – Structure

See This Resource Used In Schools…

Sutton Valence Preparatory School

You May Also Like

Visual Arts Planning Collections: Cardboard and paper

Adapting AccessArt: 2D to 3D

Making Prompt cards

Years 3 and 4 D&T and Making Club

Year 3 & 4 Making Club: Animal Parade – Week One

Pupils use AccessArt’s carnival mask template to create animal mask designs

Year 3 & 4 Making Club: Animal Parade – Week Two

Pupils make their animal mask designs 3D

Year 3 & 4 Making Club: Animal Parade – Week Three

Pupils put finishing touches on their animal masks using paint

Long Legged Animals by Years 3 & 4 Making Club

Pupils work over several sessions to create their very own long legged animals with Modroc and sticks

Articulated Beasts

Using wire to create articulated joints and moving beasts

Animating Articulated Beasts

Using pocket digital cameras to animate beasts

40 Minute Cardboard and Double-Sided Sticky Tape Engineering Challenge

Simple engineering challenge using the competitive spirit and a bit of cardboard!

40 Minute Cardboard and Double-Sided Sticky Tape Engineering Challenge

You May Also Like….

Visual Arts Planning Collections: Cardboard and paper

THINKING 3 DIMENSIONALLY WITH CARDBOARD

THE 1KG CHALLENGE WITH ANDEE COLLARD

How to Make a Simple Origami Bird by Melanie Johns

You May Also Like….

Visual Arts Planning Collections: Birds

making a puzzle world

Turkish map fold

My House – A Cardboard Construction Project

You May Also Like….

Visual Arts Planning Collections: Cardboard and paper

Making a Treehouse

Autobiographical Suitcase Pop-Up Gallery

Sculptural Birds in Flight by Teenage Makers

You May Also Like….

Visual Arts Planning Collections: Birds

Rook – Transforming Materials

SCULPTING BIRDS FROM OLD BOOKS

Autobiographical Suitcase Pop-Up Gallery

Brave Young Makers: Year Three Pupils at Ridgefield Primary Transform Materials into Birds and Insects

You May Also Like….

Visual Arts Planning Collections: Birds

roots and shoots

Which Artists: Faith bebbington