so for the last week of term, having abandoned any hope of getting my sculpture finished as i still don’t have the copper foil, i launched into helping various small groups of pupils and Cath and Mike who run the art department build sculptures for a garden courtyard bit in the school.
inspired by a dragon made of willow in erddig that we went to see we have attempted to make a dragon for the school, which isn’t quite finished but i think looks great.
it was quite a learning curve having never made anything more than a basket or lantern out of willow and cath andmike being the same. but it was really fun and i managed to get some copper in there by getting the pupils to make scales for the dragon out of silver and copper wire, and wire mesh. We also made spines that look good out of the metal.
It did rain a lot though which slightly slowed things down, but we spent the time indoors making large flowers out of silver and copper wire also which are going to look great in the garden, we first need to get some tubing to help them stand up which will have to be done over the holidys now, as well as the dragons head.
