Over the weekend, I’ve been doing a little more research on Vikings. As I’ll be working with a variety of people and age groups at the Centre, I want to be able to plan some workshop sessions that will appeal to all.
Also, as I can’t be there every day, I want to make sure there is something visually appealing to view and hold their interest until I get a body of work together.
Over the last month or so, I’ve been making Viking long boats out of paper. The aim is to fill an entire room with them, giving an invasion feel to the installation, so realistically I will need about 300 to make any impact. It really has been hard going cutting them out, adding a wash of colour and then gluing them together.
It sounds so simple when I put it into words like that, but because the paper is fairly thin, each stage has involved pressing the boats back into shape before I can move on to add another wash of colour or whatever.
I emailed a template of the boats to the centre today so that the children already attending classes can start colouring their own boats in. These can be added to the installation.
I just hope I have enough of them together before Friday!
