Week 2 - Creating Sun-Brewed Dye Bath and Botanical Prints

We had a beautiful sunshine filled day again today - perfect for exploring the garden - looking for different items to create dyes and prints - The children had a great time exploring and learning about the Cailleach and her herbs and ways - myths of winter time - they brought in stories from home - and we will take ideas from these stories - and the mandalas from last week - and the dyes from this week to help move forward to the next week.

collecting wildplants, flowers and leaves

These are the Sun brewed Dye baths all prepared in jars - each one is filled with one plant, berry,
flower or bark by each of the children - all found in the school grounds.

All the jars with sit on the window sill for the week creating a natural sun kissed dye in a jar.

Each jar is labeled with the names plant - and the owner's name.

We are so excited to see what happens in the next week to theses jars and the colours that will emerge.

Then we went on to create botanical prints on fabric

Leaves, wildplants plants, flowers and berries were used for the prints on fabric.

The fabric is rolled up in twos ..

Here are all the final rolled botanical prints - ready to be boiled for an hour.

And then left to dry - until we unfold them in class next week

Here are the prints after being boiled - now we will wait.

A lovely story by one of the children as part of the Art homework last week - I can't to read them all.

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Week 4 - Working with fabric, thread and sticks

This week the children were offered a choice of what they would prefer to make - an individual work or a group work - the children chose to create group work. Thinking about wintertime and natuve - we also spoke of the Cailleach - goddess of winter - inspired by this we began to work on a circle of life - nature - seasons changing. Everyone shared the work by cutting fabric - helping combine put the sticks we collected on the first week together - we all tied on a piece of fabric or the prints created. The work is looking like a Circle of life artwork - made with the botanical prints hanging from the branch structure. Deciding how to put the work together - planning. working on combining the sticks with thread and fabric strips. Everyone is adding some fabric to the Artwork Its coming together! The finished work Very proud bunch, Just need to find somewhere in the school to hang the work now! Very productive team work today!

Week 1 - Mandalas in Nature

We all met for the first time today to work on an Art Project as part of the South Dublin Education Center Blast Programme. Delighted to meet the third class children and their teacher. A perfect autumn morning for spending time in the outdoors creating mandalas - the children really took this task on board and worked extremely well in building their creations - we can see them all below - really amazing designs. Well done everyone - they are fantastic! We even came across a few different species of mushrooms

Week 6 - Jar decorating and Paper Marbling

This week the children collected some leaves and various small foliage in the school grounds to decorate jars - next week we will create something with the jars - but today was so much fun designing the jar- they can of course be left as they are right now - and used as a decoration for fairy lights or a candle - We also did some paper marbling - inspired by the colours of nature. Below here is the finished artwork that we created over the last two weeks - using the cyanotypes and the fabric artworks that each child made in the class - and they are all sewn and combined into one large artwork - its looks so amazing!! The details of some of the pieces here are so creative - -well done everyone - your should be so proud! Here are the decorated jars -- after spending some time outside collecting colourful petals and leaves. And finally below are the marbled papers - didn't get to take photos of them all - but they were so creative...

Bernadettes Artist Residency - Third Class (with artist Sinéad Curran)

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