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ArtFest Mural painting – Man Eating Plants!
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I think so man eating pineapple- should we be scared? Marc showing us his techniques going freehand…. scaling up our ideas getting the idea of scale…. the we add our design for monster man-eating plants! aaaarrrggghhh…..then a background colourfirst we have to paint the boards white Mural painting looks like fun! This is one in […]
ArtFest Pinhole Camera Workshop
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Some amazing and quirky results We rushed it up to the campus dark rooms to process in the machines and these are our pinhole images – both negative and positive and convex then back to the dark-room sack to get the paper out We took one of the teacups Going round the garden looking for […]
ArtFest Media Day
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recording the sound of some new fledglings in a nest and a sucking insect… Working with Jem Mackay, sound artist, we check out all the professional recording equipment. Recording the sounds of Boot Up! is going to be fun!
ArtFest Printing Workshop
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we decide to make Boot Up! bunting some snakes made with sticks more buntingand a beautiful blind for The Den
ArtFest Wood Sculpture Workshop
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yes we think so…everyone loves the Boot Up! Deer. We are so proud of it. Having a sit down with a cuppa and a think always helps the creative process….shall we have driftwood ribs or not? and in the meantime we can make a snake with leaves as scales… The it has to be screwed […]
ArtFest Clay Workshop
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Such beautiful objects and we made some lovely dishes, coasters and flowers made by pressing the leaves into the clay workshop leaders, Ema and Laura took everyone round the garden looking for inspiration we got nice and messy rolling out the clay
ArtFest 14th – 17th June Paper Making Workshop
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The finished results were beautiful It’s child’s play…we had to ‘surf’ on the wooden board to make the paper flatten evenly Some looked like jewels pressed into the pulp We began to get more confident and started pressing the materials we had found in the garden We all had a go, it took some getting […]
Poppy passion
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High summer is upon us and the garden is flowering. All the hopes and dreams of the early sowing and planting are coming into flower. It is so satisfying… and beautiful.
Let there be light!
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Summer is here! Time for the clear roof panel to go on the yurt – that’s after we had to repair it after the mice had eaten half the felt lining over the winter. A hessian patch later and hey-presto! We can see the sky and the fluffy summer clouds scudding past Giving it a […]
Cob Oven – Our turn!
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After working with the project at Marland, we decided to have a go at starting our own cob pizza oven. After building the base out of stone from our site, we laid a heatproof layer by using recycled bricks from the inside of an old storage heater. Then we made a mound out of silver […]
The Marland School Project Visit
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The Boot Up! team were invited to come and have a look at a small project supported by Aimhigher at a special school for boys in North Devon. A brilliant shelter had been constructed by the lads, the green woodworker and his mate. The design was contemporary and very site specific, fitting into the front […]