I bought a art set at the West End State School which consisted of coloured powders, not unlike the shavings from coloured pencils. Very difficult to use and very messy too! I used them to create this background and then drew a fish over the top of it. I have to play around with those powders some more to try and work out the best way to use them.
The winter solstice festival at Northey Street City Farm in Brisbane had a lantern making workshop, with pre-cut out pieces of tissue-paper and lengths of split bamboo. Very quick and easy to make, and then decorated with clay slip. Some of the other lanterns were amazingly complicated, using the basic principle of the triangle shape and then building onto that in different directions. For example, you could make a star and then make it three dimensional. Simple but effective!
My first macrame which I learnt at a free workshop in West End, Brisbane. This is with the traditional use of stiff beige string, with a bit of red wool for tying at the start and finish. Very quick and easy technique which I have adapted to use for other uses - and with other colours which are a bit more interesting, and pretty!
This is a woven star which I made as part of the 1 Million Stars to End Violence project. I think I might have forgotten the technique by now but there are instructions online. The hard part is finding the right kind of ribbon - it has to have a certain stiffness to it in order to hold the folds and hold the shape. I found out that crepe paper ribbon is NOT the right kind of ribbon!
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