Inspiration from Nature

There’s a species of solitary mason bees that make these pretty little nests for their larvae out of flower petals.

Inspiration from Nature

Nest of a Queen Common Wasp constructed from chewed up wood.

Inspiration from Nature

Fascinating wasp nest

Week 3. This week we carried on from the Andy Goldsworthy inspired work using natural materials to create pattern, texture and tone to creating work that would be illuminated.

Leafs and flower petals had been pressed in a flower press for a few weeks and the children had to select their materials based on pattern and shape only. The chosen leafs were laid on acid free wet strength tissue paper in their desired pattern, once the pattern was finished the items were trapped by covering with a second piece of tissue coated with PVA glue.

Bruising is another method used by Andy Goldsworthy, using your finger nail to rub sections of the leaf to discolour areas by bruising work well to add another tone of colour to the leaves. Some of the children worked with their nails to create patterns on the leaves.

Some children used lots of textures to create larger scale work.

Another student created miniature art work with tiny sections of the conifer which took a lot of patience 

One student created a series of tiny sections of bark covered with multitudes of the same plant material, they work well individually and as a collection.