Christmas 2013 Craft Classes

Pictures from previous classes covering work on Christmas cards, house decorations and Russian dolls.

 

 

Craft Classes. Wednesday Fortnights. Chapelfields Coventry UK, CV5 8DR

All Abilities welcome!

For more details contact me by mariajc@fsmail.net

www.whimsicalwonders.co.uk

Craft Workshops Begin! By Maria Coyne

An aim of mine, for many years, has been to set up my own craft class... and here we are!

Focusing on surface design my classes will aid you in creating a broad range of products from cushion covers, fabric book sleeves, to cards etc.

Interested in working with both beginners and  experienced crafters I aim to make this work shop a collaborative, exciting experience for all.

Set up in four sections the classes are held fortnightly on Wednesdays that will take us from January to August and you will journey through the first half of the years seasonal colours!

Projects and faces change- you can drop by to just one class.

Long term projects work t the same time as I am hoping to create an exhibition in the local community.

For further details contact me at mariajc@fsmail.net
www.whimsicalwonders.co.uk

New Year, New Projects

I have began the year setting out to make a photo diary.

I take hundreds of photos every now and then on various projects or at random moments. Yet I do believe I may not take a photo everyday.

So I have planned to document 2014 with 364 photographs.

It is only 7 days in and I can already see how tricky this may actually be.

Few issues- battery issues on my digital camera, as well as actually forgetting to take a photograph during the day and end up taking a silly photo in the dark of the kitchen.

But I have enjoyed the collection of 7 images I have so far. 

They have already been quite varied so I am happy I have started this interesting project.

Jewellery Project- Development

I have been researching various creative projects to provide me with inspiration for my independent jewellery project entitled 'The Extraordinary Ordinary'.

My aim was to produce a collection of interesting, quirky, odd, slightly crazy unusual items from a broad selection of materials- beads, buttons, recycled items, old unused kitchen appliances, ribbons etc.

However I have reached a pause in my project- I am looking back on what I have made- and feel that I have not created as distinctive pieces as I hoped. Instead they appear too generic and not as experimental as planned. This maybe because I have doubted my work along the process and therefore I have left my original concept thinking it was unattainable.

But I feel the items I have currently made are not very interesting so I need some inspiration which I found in:

FISCHLI/ WEISS: 

The collaborative series of photos by Peter Fischli and David Weiss, taken in 1984, presents a collection of ordinary items balanced in an unusual sculpture and the photograph is taken moments before the new creation collapses. The series is entitled 'Equilibres/ Quiet Afternoon' which captures the moment caught between stability and instability.

I am inspired by the technique of mixing random objects together (tin kettles balanced with a floor brush). I should progress onto achieve this broad design to create 'experimental' jewellery pieces. I should not be scared. 

A perfect relation to my project with this quote by the Guardian's critic Adrian Searle who stated that Fischli and Weiss "celebrate the normal. Normal pleasures, normal fears, normal wonders and irritations." 

Love Love Love

Art Days

Theme of day= crazy paint splodges, accidental spills etc. Quite a crazy mess.  Once dried write calligraphy over the top.  Battle of colourful paint and black ink.

An explosion! 

Dream Catchers