tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43827051354752400632024-03-04T23:43:22.213-08:00Land Art for Kidsjuliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14931398999415835642noreply@blogger.comBlogger48125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4382705135475240063.post-7025132043360801722016-06-29T04:55:00.000-07:002016-06-29T04:55:00.254-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="text-align: justify;">The playground is a great place to create land art with the children. Not all schools have access to natural mate</span><span style="text-align: justify;">rials. Bring the materials into school to create land art in the playground. Lots of parks have materials such as fircones, sticks, stones, acorns and conkers when in season, fallen leaves. We collected these lovely fircones from the park and brought them into school, we are always on the lookout for amazing nature to use in land art. </span></div>
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We have been making stone faces, they are great fun to create. I am going to set myself a challenge of making a stone face family. The couple holding hands are George and Beatrice and the chap underneath is called Bill. More family to arrive very soon! Take the kids out to a rocky place and get them to create their family and friends! </div>
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<br />juliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14931398999415835642noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4382705135475240063.post-45416062487080042542016-02-04T06:17:00.001-08:002016-02-04T06:17:22.026-08:00Grass Diamond <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This day I attempted the grass diamond I was suffering from a bad back!!<br />
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We went out collecting our natural materials for our sculptures, I'd had the idea for the grass diamond sculpture for a while.<br />
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After collecting dried grass stalks and fresh green stalks, I set about making the sculpture, using thorns to attach each ends.<br />
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It was extremely fiddly and getting all the right sizes was frustrating. The pain in my back wasn't helping at all. :-(<br />
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Eventually, and I'm probably talking a couple of hours, I asked Richard for help!! Which in my mind is a fail on my part.<br />
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But, Richard did a great job in finishing the sculpture for me. I chose where it should sit and Richard with his expert photography skills took the photo.<br />
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A good team effort, and although not all my own work it shows what you can achieve with a bit of help!juliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14931398999415835642noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4382705135475240063.post-24644687376727304392015-12-21T08:38:00.001-08:002015-12-21T08:38:47.607-08:00Recently, Richard was asked to write a blog piece for the WildlifeTrusts <b>'EveryChildWild' </b>their aim is to encourage every child from small infant to young adult to want and to have every opportunity to explore nature and wildlife.<br />
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Here is the blog piece Richard wrote for the wildlifetrust blog.<br />
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Encouraging everyone to appreciate nature and wildlife should be a priority in education and family life.<br />
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<br />juliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14931398999415835642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4382705135475240063.post-89548303508882545272015-11-06T07:12:00.001-08:002015-11-06T10:00:47.610-08:00Mud AnimalsIt has been a long while since adding anything at all to the landartforkids blog, but this is about to change!! Richard has been updating his own website along with land art for kids, but these things do take a while when you are doing it yourself! Luckily Richard has these skills as well as land art and photography.<br />
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I will try and post as often as I can. I always try and post something on the land art for kids facebook page most days.<br />
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Here are some pictures of something I made in the summer, it is purely for the children to have a go at, and grown ups too of course! :-)<br />
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I collected some really lovely sticky mud, (kids love mud) the best mud around in these parts!!! Then I used the stems from Maple leaves, and the eyes are leaves made into circles, an acorn for the rabbits tail, voila, mud animals!!<br />
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My calendar for 2013 has finally arrived! 18 months ago a publisher asked me if they could put one together using my images, I was chuffed to bits and to now have one in my greasy mitts, well how cool!<br />
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<a href="http://www.amberlotus.com/">Amber Lotus Publishing</a> are a lovely fluffy company based in Portland, Oregan and they were an absolute pleasure to deal with, I had great fun sorting out the images for them and lots of excitement anticipating what it may look like. And finally it arrived the other day!<br />
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Larger than I thought, think of a vinyl album cover (though sadly it doesn't play a tune when you slap it onto a record player but it might ruin your stylus) and printed on dolphin/tuna/donkey sanctuary/hedgehog friendly paper. I can only imagine how many wonderful forests have been planted just to offset the printing of this calendar. I am expecting a massive kick back from the squirrels. They now owe me big time...<br />
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I have a few knocking around should you want one (that'll be you people with Paypal accounts and not any squirrels even if you have a PaySquirrel account), about £8 each give or take shipping and where you live in the world, drop me a line if you want one, there's a contact whatchamacallit on my <a href="http://richardshilling.co.uk/">website</a>. You can get them on <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Land-Art-Calendar-Richard-Shilling/dp/1602376468/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1354290577&sr=8-1">Amazon</a> too should that mean you can get one cheaper wherever you are. They don't ship to squirrel land so take note nut munchers. You can get them plenty of other places too apparently but you'll probably know better than me about that.<br />
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Oh and finally should you want a <a href="http://www.blurb.com/user/store/escher">book</a> for Chrimble, Blurb are knocking £7 off until 13 December, just enter SAVE7 at checkout. If you squirrels want one then you'd better ask Blurb if it is alright to pay in hazelnuts.</div>
Richard Shillinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13986006611907624065noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4382705135475240063.post-56878095095286698252011-12-06T08:26:00.001-08:002011-12-06T08:26:33.751-08:00Autumn Land Art<div style="margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; font-size: 0.8em; line-height: 1.6em;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jrtpickle/6395485061/" title="Autumn Land Art"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7169/6395485061_beb139c215.jpg" alt="Autumn Land Art by JRT Pickle" /></a><br/><span style="margin: 0;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jrtpickle/6395485061/">Autumn Land Art</a>, a photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jrtpickle/">JRT Pickle</a> on Flickr.</span></div><p>A wonderful warm autumn afternoon in late September, I collected maple leaves and pinned them together with thorns. I found an amazing rock with beautiful green moss and afternoon shadows, a perfect spot for land art!</p>juliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14931398999415835642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4382705135475240063.post-50434166625989728642011-09-29T13:38:00.001-07:002011-09-29T13:38:31.836-07:00Boston Ivy Leaf Line<div style="margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; font-size: 0.8em; line-height: 1.6em;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jrtpickle/6196173832/" title="Boston Ivy Leaf Line"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6157/6196173832_62a10ede5b.jpg" alt="Boston Ivy Leaf Line by JRT Pickle" /></a><br/><span style="margin: 0;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jrtpickle/6196173832/">Boston Ivy Leaf Line</a>, a photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jrtpickle/">JRT Pickle</a> on Flickr.</span></div><p>A couple days off work and a very unusual warm end to September, it feels more like summer than autumn, but we will not be complaining! We went out looking for Autumn leaves and a lot of them are to be described as moth eaten, but autumn is still starting so hopefully they will produce more colour perfection over the next few weeks.<br /><br />The Boston Ivy leaves are growing against a side wall of a shop, they lose their brilliance quite quickly once they drop or are picked so need to be used straight away. The colours remind me of a wedding, whites and pinks, lovely. Hung from a tree capturing the afternoon sunlight they show their wonderful delicate colours.</p>juliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14931398999415835642noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4382705135475240063.post-17882298125600837392011-08-24T03:43:00.001-07:002011-08-24T03:43:00.425-07:00Mussel Shell Lined Square With View.<div style="margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; font-size: 0.8em; line-height: 1.6em;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jrtpickle/6062097801/" title="Mussel Shell Lined Square With View."><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6067/6062097801_3f5601180f.jpg" alt="Mussel Shell Lined Square With View. by JRT Pickle" /></a><br/><span style="margin: 0;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jrtpickle/6062097801/">Mussel Shell Lined Square With View.</a>, a photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jrtpickle/">JRT Pickle</a> on Flickr.</span></div><p>Mussel Shells at the beach lined up in a square, there are so many different shells you can find on the beach. Have a look for some and make a patterns or maybe fish. Look for small rock pools and make something inside one. You can have lots of fun on the beach making land art.</p>juliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14931398999415835642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4382705135475240063.post-38960998753373171152011-08-21T17:00:00.001-07:002011-08-21T17:00:27.982-07:00Going going gone<div style="margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; font-size: 0.8em; line-height: 1.6em;"><object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="500" height="332" data="http://www.flickr.com/apps/video/stewart.swf?v=71377" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"> <param name="flashvars" value="intl_lang=en-us&photo_secret=5baf86b91a&photo_id=5674973037&flickr_show_info_box=true"></param> <param name="movie" value="http://www.flickr.com/apps/video/stewart.swf?v=71377"></param> <param name="bgcolor" value="#000000"></param> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.flickr.com/apps/video/stewart.swf?v=71377" bgcolor="#000000" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="intl_lang=en-us&photo_secret=5baf86b91a&photo_id=5674973037&flickr_show_info_box=true" height="332" width="500"></embed></object><br/><span style="margin: 0;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jrtpickle/5674973037/">Going going gone</a> a video by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jrtpickle/">JRT Pickle</a> on Flickr.</span></div><p></p>juliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14931398999415835642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4382705135475240063.post-77325419904644379952011-08-12T12:50:00.001-07:002011-08-12T12:50:19.120-07:00Leaf circle<div style="margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; font-size: 0.8em; line-height: 1.6em;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jrtpickle/1505838297/" title="Leaf circle"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2061/1505838297_9ed279d265.jpg" alt="Leaf circle by JRT Pickle" /></a><br/><span style="margin: 0;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jrtpickle/1505838297/">Leaf circle</a>, a photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jrtpickle/">JRT Pickle</a> on Flickr.</span></div><p>Green and yellow leaves made into a circle. Autumn colours will soon start arriving.</p>juliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14931398999415835642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4382705135475240063.post-35416229713754440182011-07-13T07:06:00.001-07:002011-07-13T07:06:32.380-07:00Berry-heart<div style="margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; font-size: 0.8em; line-height: 1.6em;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jrtpickle/870540289/" title="Berry-heart"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1408/870540289_bb0ce10257.jpg" alt="Berry-heart by JRT Pickle" /></a><br/><span style="margin: 0;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jrtpickle/870540289/">Berry-heart</a>, a photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jrtpickle/">JRT Pickle</a> on Flickr.</span></div><p>I made this sculpture in 2007. It is made from Rowan berries. I like to use Rowan berries in my sculptures because they are so colourful. <br /><br />If you use berries for your sculptures make sure you ask an adult first, just in case they are bad.</p>juliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14931398999415835642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4382705135475240063.post-46211336524853419972011-07-11T01:53:00.001-07:002011-07-11T01:53:23.941-07:00Pebble flower<div style="margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; font-size: 0.8em; line-height: 1.6em;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jrtpickle/1463380677/" title="flower"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1072/1463380677_c699650137.jpg" alt="flower by JRT Pickle" /></a><br/><span style="margin: 0;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jrtpickle/1463380677/">flower</a>, a photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jrtpickle/">JRT Pickle</a> on Flickr.</span></div><p>This is such a easy sculpture for little ones to do. Collect petal shaped pebbles and a round one for the middle. I scraped the stones with a another pebble to give the scratch white pattern on top. Arrange into a flower shape. <br /><br />You can then collect a twig for the stem and some leaves to really finish it off. Have fun making this, make lots to create a pebble flower garden. :-) Perhaps you can make some and let us know how you got on.</p>juliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14931398999415835642noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4382705135475240063.post-48756845014257795672011-07-06T07:44:00.001-07:002011-07-06T07:44:40.470-07:00Sycamore-Seed-Sails<div style="margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; font-size: 0.8em; line-height: 1.6em;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jrtpickle/3980053347/" title="Sycamore-Seed-Sails"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2546/3980053347_0db7fc7f48.jpg" alt="Sycamore-Seed-Sails by JRT Pickle" /></a><br/><span style="margin: 0;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jrtpickle/3980053347/">Sycamore-Seed-Sails</a>, a photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jrtpickle/">JRT Pickle</a> on Flickr.</span></div><p>I made this sculpture from sycamore seeds and dried grass stalks, captured it in sunlight, placed in the beautiful Forest of Bowland!<br /><br />This is one of my favourite sculptures, I love the straight lines of the grass stalks and the curves of the seeds, they seem to compliment each other so well. The sycamore seeds are in full bloom on trees at the moment, collect some make your own sycamore sculpture. Have fun. :-)</p>juliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14931398999415835642noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4382705135475240063.post-49052762706204457762011-07-06T07:39:00.001-07:002011-07-06T07:39:13.630-07:00Loch Fyne Razor Shell Sculpture<div style="margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; font-size: 0.8em; line-height: 1.6em;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jrtpickle/5761509786/" title="Loch Fyne Razor Shell Sculpture"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5309/5761509786_bbd6f51337.jpg" alt="Loch Fyne Razor Shell Sculpture by JRT Pickle" /></a><br/><span style="margin: 0;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jrtpickle/5761509786/">Loch Fyne Razor Shell Sculpture</a>, a photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jrtpickle/">JRT Pickle</a> on Flickr.</span></div><p></p>Richard Shillinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13986006611907624065noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4382705135475240063.post-15361025565284562272011-06-25T08:51:00.001-07:002011-06-25T08:54:38.008-07:00Brown Tree Leaves!<div style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px; padding: 0pt; font-size: 0.8em; line-height: 1.6em;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jrtpickle/4470803774/" title="Brown Tree Leaves!"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2706/4470803774_caa676b165.jpg" alt="Brown Tree Leaves! by JRT Pickle" /></a><br /><span style="margin: 0pt;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jrtpickle/4470803774/">Brown Tree Leaves!</a>, a photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jrtpickle/">JRT Pickle</a> on Flickr.</span></div><p>I have not been able to get out and do land art just recently, so I thought I would add some land art that has not been posted on here.<br /><br />I made this in spring 2010. You can still find winter leaves on the ground in the woods even in summer. I used beech leaves and grass reeds to tie them around the trunk of the tree. It makes quite an effective sculpture. I think you should try and find some attractive leaves and make a pretty pattern on a tree trunk. Be patient though, it isn't as easy at it looks!</p><p>Posted by Julia (jrtpickle)<br /></p><p><br /></p>Richard Shillinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13986006611907624065noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4382705135475240063.post-16452801449540890332011-06-06T01:00:00.000-07:002011-06-06T01:01:48.041-07:00ARTventure | Nature Detectives art competition | 2011<a href="http://www.naturedetectives.org.uk/art">ARTventure | Nature Detectives art competition | 2011</a><br /><br /><br />A fantastic competiton for all you budding land artists out there!Richard Shillinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13986006611907624065noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4382705135475240063.post-63566933387478577592011-05-26T06:56:00.001-07:002011-05-26T07:05:20.482-07:00Loch Fyne Razor Shell Sculpture<div style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px; padding: 0pt; font-size: 0.8em; line-height: 1.6em;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jrtpickle/5761508624/" title="Loch Fyne Razor Shell Sculpture"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3124/5761508624_489a5d0fb5.jpg" alt="Loch Fyne Razor Shell Sculpture by JRT Pickle" /></a><br /><span style="margin: 0pt;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jrtpickle/5761508624/">Loch Fyne Razor Shell Sculpture</a>, a photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jrtpickle/">JRT Pickle</a> on Flickr.</span></div><p>Another sculpture that I made while we were in Scotland. This part of the beach had so many razor shells I could have collected bucket loads, but obviously you need time and energy to collect lots and lots, so I collected as many as I could!!<br /><br />I planned to lay them flat and make a pattern on the sand, the sun was shining and when I held the shell up to the sun they lit up brightly bringing out the lovely browns and white colours on the shell. I decided to stand them in rows like soldiers and catch the shadows from the afternoon sun.<br /><br />We had a lovely day collecting and making sculptures. I hope you can get out and make something with nature too.<br /><br />(posted by Julia) jrtpickle</p>Richard Shillinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13986006611907624065noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4382705135475240063.post-70163309497213705202011-05-11T09:09:00.001-07:002011-05-11T09:09:28.386-07:00Scotland Loch Fyne Shell Sculpture<div style="margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; font-size: 0.8em; line-height: 1.6em;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jrtpickle/5710194398/" title="Scotland Loch Fyne Shell Sculpture"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2298/5710194398_e1bba2ae1d.jpg" alt="Scotland Loch Fyne Shell Sculpture by JRT Pickle" /></a><br/><span style="margin: 0;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jrtpickle/5710194398/">Scotland Loch Fyne Shell Sculpture</a>, a photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jrtpickle/">JRT Pickle</a> on Flickr.</span></div><p>You can see the mountains of Scotland in the distance, across the Loch for certain view points you can see the Isle of Arran, Loch Fyne is a very beautiful part of the Scottish coast.</p>Richard Shillinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13986006611907624065noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4382705135475240063.post-81796076539761288722011-05-11T08:55:00.001-07:002011-05-11T09:01:32.788-07:00Scotland Loch Fyne Shell Sculpture<div style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px; padding: 0pt; font-size: 0.8em; line-height: 1.6em;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jrtpickle/5709632247/" title="Scotland Loch Fyne Shell Sculpture"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3121/5709632247_a1551d4c47.jpg" alt="Scotland Loch Fyne Shell Sculpture by JRT Pickle" /></a><br /><span style="margin: 0pt;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jrtpickle/5709632247/">Scotland Loch Fyne Shell Sculpture</a>, a photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jrtpickle/">JRT Pickle</a> on Flickr.</span></div><p>If you are down at the beach over the summer or even in winter it is still a nice activity to make sculptures, then find some shells or nice stones and maybe some driftwood, make a sculpture like this one or something similar. If the sun is high you can try to capture shadows as part of your sculpture.<br /><br />This one was done on the shore of Loch Fyne in Scotland, we had a few days away and we were very lucky with the weather! It can you take a while to collect everything you think you might need, especially if you want to make a bigger sculpture! I always take a bag with me so I can collect lots of things. Have fun and let us know if you make a sculpture down at the beach. :)</p><p>Posted by Julia.<br /></p><p><br /></p>Richard Shillinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13986006611907624065noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4382705135475240063.post-77732331898468120662011-04-25T01:12:00.001-07:002011-05-11T09:05:00.360-07:00Leaf Mosaic<div style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px; padding: 0pt; font-size: 0.8em; line-height: 1.6em;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jrtpickle/5647329456/" title="Leaf Mosaic"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5305/5647329456_2d5efe9043.jpg" alt="Leaf Mosaic by JRT Pickle" /></a><br /><span style="margin: 0pt;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jrtpickle/5647329456/">Leaf Mosaic</a>, a photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jrtpickle/">JRT Pickle</a> on Flickr.</span></div><p>We had a lovely quiet day at Clougha in Lancashire, creating land art. I have not done any since doing the mud spiral and I looked forward to doing something. The weather is very warm for the time of year, summer seems to have arrived early and we will not complain!<br /><br />I collected some red, green, yellow leaves and some lovely mud from the river bank, it is great mud, very thick and sticky perfect for land art. Mud varies a lot on where you get it, it can be dark black to a horrible brown and the stickiness of it also varies. I should write a list of different types of mud!<br /><br />I used scissors to cut the leaves into little squares, sometimes you might need to use tools to make a sculpture, such as scissors, but don't worry if you do not have any, it is just as good to make a sculpture using found materials and making something into a shape such as a square, triangle, circle or a mixture of whatever you like. I found a very nice triangular bit of rock, created my mud square and then spent quite a few hours putting on the coloured leaves!<br /><br />I like the end result, the red leaves after a few hours turned brown, I will go back to the sculpture later and see if it has changed even more.</p>Posted by JuliaRichard Shillinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13986006611907624065noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4382705135475240063.post-66417058602956623182011-04-11T05:55:00.000-07:002011-04-11T06:10:16.901-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX04qGCAZVz87sI0Ls618YPIchpX5hZBxSQbvzSc3M8aVQ68pW5gp1Ky5unve1Q_yo8-aoRF5rTnCRhS5RpKpvLte6-NUB-OjPAQzvqE_Yk_FoLHamvuwkv0RRkteiRjkEIy7OZaGQ38M/s1600/Stick+V.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX04qGCAZVz87sI0Ls618YPIchpX5hZBxSQbvzSc3M8aVQ68pW5gp1Ky5unve1Q_yo8-aoRF5rTnCRhS5RpKpvLte6-NUB-OjPAQzvqE_Yk_FoLHamvuwkv0RRkteiRjkEIy7OZaGQ38M/s400/Stick+V.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5594311363560960994" border="0" /></a><a href="http://http//www.flickr.com/photos/jrtpickle/5439430624/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/jrtpickle/5439430624/</a><br /><br />This sculpture is very easy to do, especially if you are tall! Or find a smaller tree!<br /><br />I collected lots of sticks of varying sizes. I put the long stick in to make the triangluar shape and just filled in with the smaller sticks. It is easy to do, but also very fiddly, sometimes when you wedge a stick in the others move and sometimes fall out, but just be patient and it will get there in the end.Richard Shillinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13986006611907624065noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4382705135475240063.post-90652963185686748272011-03-25T04:39:00.000-07:002011-03-25T07:40:07.712-07:00Acorn Cup Mud Spiral<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFVVLeVg6QdsN8EXTtQy-TKZoiVqox4RgtUpQcREL4iHIiSBMmcqQs4jBrUppb_9cqi5X1BLlmWMUQ9pkBqCVcKji9njyHMGy0RXLHx9jY30eMTg_04E5pF8PC8Ic5Bc3lHXOKO9tZNwU/s1600/5558353174_ec42be0b27_z.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFVVLeVg6QdsN8EXTtQy-TKZoiVqox4RgtUpQcREL4iHIiSBMmcqQs4jBrUppb_9cqi5X1BLlmWMUQ9pkBqCVcKji9njyHMGy0RXLHx9jY30eMTg_04E5pF8PC8Ic5Bc3lHXOKO9tZNwU/s400/5558353174_ec42be0b27_z.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5587983903276175858" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZQK8xeLbjiLjH8Vtuui6PQSKs3dYyoD58EAFf2Ak5I8WzolKcWTsRmuxQ_NlV-mHFT3hZUN5LbuOmexUIrn15N00FEDWEk7NSvsqdcgguIPDM6Vw6N-Wie6qDZCY8GGXjfpA7L0oxSgg/s1600/5557768645_09dd2ef8b6_z.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZQK8xeLbjiLjH8Vtuui6PQSKs3dYyoD58EAFf2Ak5I8WzolKcWTsRmuxQ_NlV-mHFT3hZUN5LbuOmexUIrn15N00FEDWEk7NSvsqdcgguIPDM6Vw6N-Wie6qDZCY8GGXjfpA7L0oxSgg/s400/5557768645_09dd2ef8b6_z.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5587981067164708338" border="0" /></a><br /><br />We have finally managed to get out and do some land art, the winter months are not the easiest to get out there and do something, and we tend to go out for walks getting inspiration and enjoying the fresh air. Richard has been busy making sculptures from ice in the very cold spell we had in December and I will post a couple of those in the next few days or so.<br /><br />Getting back to the present we had a great day doing land art in Tythe Barn Wood, a private wood that we are lucky to have access to, it is always very peaceful. I found a little acorn cup amongst the pile of brown leaves on the ground and it was the only one I could find. I collected some mud in our lunch box tub, added some water to make it more fluid then dipped the little acorn cup in the mud to make little mud circles as you can see. There are so many more things you can do with this type of land art, I am definitely going to give it a go and try more patterns etc, maybe make a leaf pattern using dried leaves and mud.<br /><br />Julia :)Richard Shillinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13986006611907624065noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4382705135475240063.post-35291368195894756962010-10-10T10:16:00.001-07:002010-10-10T10:16:20.102-07:00101010 - Land Art Workshop - Giant Spiral<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/escher1/5067852557/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4127/5067852557_7dac63a26e_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/escher1/5067852557/">101010 - Land Art Workshop - Giant Spiral</a> <br />Originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/escher1/">escher...</a></span><br clear="all" /><p>101010 - Land Art Workshop - Giant Spiral<br /><br />This is what I did on 10/10/10, ran a land art workshop with Julia for a group of kids and adults on behalf of the Forest of Bowland Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.<br /><br />We were tasked with helping create awareness of the beautiful places around here and the diverse flora and fauna.<br /><br />The weather was great and we all had a fine old day making cool sculpures.<br /><br />I'd be hard pressed to say whether the adults (I can't call them grown-ups) or the kids had more fun.<br /><br />Once we'd finished this spiral it was so big it could be seen from space. Honest!</p>Richard Shillinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13986006611907624065noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4382705135475240063.post-67992395392963940612010-10-10T10:12:00.003-07:002010-10-10T10:12:39.290-07:00Viking Long House<div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/landartforkids/5068426160/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4149/5068426160_d1af953e68_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/landartforkids/5068426160/">Viking Long House</a><br />Originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/landartforkids/">Land Art for Kids</a></span></div><br clear="all" />Richard Shillinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13986006611907624065noreply@blogger.com0