OPEN DOOR with Shantona

Session 9

It’s nearly the end of the Open Door Project – where have the weeks gone?... It seems we started the project only a couple of weeks ago but it has been 8 weeks; they say time fly’s when you’re having fun and that’s exactly what we have been doing – Having Fun!

We started on our canvas pieces today – looking at the photographs we took of our vase in the previous week and having studied Michael Brennand Wood’s work it was time to create our own 2D pieces.

We had lots of materials to work with, we were also asked to bring 3 objects from home and everyone did very well in remembering to bring these.  There were all sorts of objects that people brought in, mobile case, earrings, bracelets, badges, different shaped rubbers and many more.  Musarat & Rozi brought lots in too, bottle tops, plastic coins, foam shapes, beads, buttons, wire, fabric and felt.

We all got a little excited after seeing the objects. We began by arranging these onto our canvas, the objects were then stuck down with a little blue tac so we could rearrange the shapes or add to the design if we wanted to next week.

It was fun creating different patterns; we are looking forward to completing the canvas next week and creating animation with the objects.