I have spent three days at the wonderful Brancepeth Castle, where I was selling my art and running mandala workshops.
Brancepeth Castle Summer Fete
Tag Archives: Festival
Animal masks
Whenever I go to deliver a workshop, my favourite part is always what people do with the templates and materials that I bring in that I would have never thought of, and in this workshop some of the adaptations were fabulous! Although I am disappointed not to have got a picture of the shark that some parents had to help their child make!
Mini Beast Masks
Over the May bank holiday weekend, I spent many happy hours delivering workshops at the Centre for Life for visitors to create their own Mini-beast mask. At the start of the year I created some prototypes and then used these to create some printable templates and stencils that the public would be able to use to design their own mini-beast mask
I created 5 prototypes to begin with, an ant, a spider, a bee, a butterfly, and a ladybird. They were all slightly different style of mask covering the face in different ways, sometimes sharing eyes with the mini-beast and sometimes having their own eyes.
Over the three days of workshops the participants enjoyed being able to create they own designs using the printed templates or card stencils, using glue guns and other tools along with a variety of materials to create their own individual mask.
Festival Headdresses
Using templates and a variety of materials we made some Festival Headdresses, the participants took the time to colour in and then add on various materials like feathers and stickers.
Crooked Halo Crafts and Design 