Floral headpiece

My friend got married at the weekend.

For her wedding day, she asked me to create a paper floral headpiece, incorporating some of her favourite flowers. As her and her fiance were getting married in a place called 'The Garden Station', (a restored Victorian railway station in a woodland garden), it seemed apt to include some of the wild flowers in bloom there.

The flowers are made from paper cut from this vintage children's book. 

 

 

 

  (Forget-me-nots, Buttercups, California poppies and Aquilegia sugar plum fairy)

 

 

   Here are some photos of the enchanting venue, and 'the bride' on her wedding day.

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   I also made their wedding gift. 

(A paper-cut light box of 'The Garden Station').

 

The Garden Station, Northumberland

Light and Shadow Creative Workshops

I was working in a school all of last week with all Year 5 and Year 6 (aged 9-11) pupils at Millfields School in Hackney, 
to create light-boxes for part of their 'Creative Week'. 

I worked with each class to produce one box, based on a fairytale with a modern telling. The class was split into small groups. 

I began by asking the first group of pupils to draw out their ideas.

 

The second group of pupils worked on the design for light box. They took inspiration from the initial drawings, and worked indiviually to design and draw out each layer for the light box, considering the scale and placement of the overall design. 

They were each given a layer to draw, within  a frame.

 

The final group used craft knives to cut out the designs from white card, and then glue their cut-outs onto a cardboard frame.

  I assembled the frames, gluing them together, and fixing a coloured led light strip (of the pupil's choice) into the back of the box.

Each box has a sheet of clear transparency paper glued onto the front, to protect it. 

 Here are the pupil's final designs.

(I think you'll agree, they did a great job!)

 

Aladdin

 

 Hansel and Gretal

 Little Red Riding Hood

 The Little Mermaid

 Cinderella

 Peter Pan

  The boxes will go on display this evening at St James's Church in Hackney.

 This is what the boxes look like without the lights switched on.