A departure from more traditional painting tonight. We all met up to get our hands messy and cover ourselves head to toe in glitter, glue and paint. Yes, tonight, we made Christmas tree decorations. Why? We've agreed to display a tree at this year's Winter Wonderland where local groups decorate a tree with a theme. Our's is green, as in recycled decorations. The evening was lead by Paul Browning, who's handiwork with mixed media collage and crafts gave him the knowhow to come up with the ideas. So, laden with jigsaw pieces, plastic bags, yoghurt bottles and old road maps, we set about converting throwaway materials into dazzling decs. It was a hectic busy evening and around 70 decorations were completed. Although not pictured here, Dave was in charge of the most important decoration, our Art Angel. If you want to see the finished furnished tree, keep an eye out on this blog for further details. It'll be on view around the 4th-5th December.
Next week we meet up with our friends from Glossop Art Group and I'll be back to post how the evening went, so remember to check in again :). Please feel free to leave a comment and let us know you're out there lurking.
2 comments:
what a great society this is; freindly, fun and welcoming, since joining last year in october i have learned so much and with so much help and encouragement i hope to improve to some acceptable standard.i look forward exitedly to the next year with this great group.
Christmas Deoration night was really a good fun night. A chance to try our hand at something different. After a hectic time with our recent annual exhibition it sometimes takes a while to put the mind to starting another masterpiece!!.
so making the decs was good. The christmas tree should look really great so try to call into the church on Saturday 6th Dec and take a look.
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