Hungry For Arts Project

All children in P5-P7 taking part in our Hungry for Arts Success Workshop.
Day One

Our artist in residence, Mhari Nicoll, getting the project started by introducing a variety of common and not so common fruits.	Time to taste some of the fruit for ourselves.

Getting our fingers warmed up before we started drawing.	Each group was given a different fruit to observe and sketch. The drawing was then engraved on to a Quick Print sheet.

These sheets were then rolled with paint.	The print was then revealed.

Here are our prints set out to dry.	Meanwhile string prints were being made.

Fruit words were being printed with sponge letters.	Another backing paper was made with wax resist paintings.

Day Two

We made a viewfinder out of a piece of card. It was triangular in shape.	The viewfinder was placed over the fruit print we had made.

We looked through the viewfinder and enlarged what we could see on to our tile.	The enlarged drawing was now painted.

Some very interesting shapes and designs appeared.	We now took some of the string and mono prints we had made and cut them into strips. Using two colours we filled in the other half of the tile.

Our fruit print from the previous day was cut out and glued on top of the strips.	The masking tape was removed from the middle of the tile. We finished our small tiles by writing our names along the middle.
	Here are some of our tiles waiting to be varnished.

Day Three
	On day three we started work on a larger tile. This one was split into four sections and we worked on these tiles in pairs. Again we enlarged a piece of our fruit print. In the smaller triangles this time we used the wax resist paintings we had made on the first day.


Now it was time to add our signature to our work.	We made a handprint and then cut it out.
	Putting the finishing touches to our large files.