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| The sea at Craster, Northumberland |
For
the next project in the C&G course, I set the students the theme of the
sea. The sea is such a great topic, that you can hardly fail to be
inspired by it. There are waves, patterns on the sand, shells, rock
pools, sea creatures, fishes, driftwood, mythical sulkies and mermaids, boats,
etc. I've asked the students to bring together a collection of sea
related things and I can't wait to see what they bring. This is some of
what I've pulled together to show them.
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| Some of our shell collection |
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| Little pebbles from the beach |
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| Sea pictures taken from magazines |
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| Postcards of sea paintings |
This
is the trouble with teaching C&G - it distracts me from my own work as now
I want to go and make sea related art, rather than what I'm working on at the
moment!
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| Craster, Northumberland |
I
also found them a couple of useful blog posts - this one by Mai-Britt Axelsen on how
she designed her container, which is the other part of the weekend. Secondly, I
loved how Sandra Wyman developed her sea quilt from the workshop she took with
Jo Budd. You can see it here. It is really useful to see how you can be 'inspired by' rather
than having to slavishly copy what you see.
Do you find the sea inspiring? Have you made any sea inspired work that I can recommend to the students?
