STUDENT - CHARLIE

STUDENT:- CHARLIE

I met Charlie at the Mudgeeraba Show where I was displaying my models. I was very pleased when later I had the privilege of having him attend my classes. He is 10 years of age and has passion for creating things, lots of them.

Charlie choose this pre-made gourd.

Charlie decided to make a bakery.

First he made an oven. It was made from 1/2 a ping pong ball and covered in air drying clay. Inside the base of the oven - the fire- is an orange flashing light.
He then placed a fake door at the back (this was later be be replaced with a sink). He also built a table.

The internal makeup of how the shelving was to be placed was changed several times but it the end he ended up with them as can be seen here. The long white sausage like object is clay to the height of his character. This was to help with the scale of the furniture.

As can be seen by this photo the door has been removed and a sink (with bubbles) has been located at the back of the bakery.
Doesn't that cake look good enough to eat! All we need is garlic and we are set with the lovely french loaves.

There are several items here (at the back of Charlies house) that he has made himself - the green flower on the ground and the orange one on the left hand corner, the rest were made by me and like all my students they can use them. Charlie liked to have lots of plants all over the outside of his house.


The photo of the finished house will be forthcoming.

STUDENT - Badger House -BH

STUDENT:-Badger House - BH (psuedo name)

BH is 10 years of age. He decided to build a two story house in the pre-made gourd he choose.

I do what I always do get too excited and then forget to take photos. This is the pre-made house with the attic BH has added.

BH's attic is filled with an old couch and boxes plus a small ladder.

The back of the house has been decorated with all manner of 'things' including a large dragonfly. The 'moss' helps cover up the wires for the lights.

Inside BH's house there is a flat screen TV, a play station (the controls are sitting on the chair), a Japanese style lamp a fish tank sitting on the small cupboard plus a bed and clock on the wall.

The lamp was made from piping with a paper doily glued to it. The fish tank was made from the packaging of batteries with sand (mixed with glue) in the base and fish drawn on to strips of plastic and strategically placed within the sand so they look like they are swimming.

Isn't the badger fabulous. I like badgers. Using some photos of real badgers I took when i was in England earlier this year BH made his. He used aluminum foil as the core and polymer clay over the top. The badger was then cooked.

The house has three lights in it. The battery packs (2) were placed in the base.

Not content to decorate the inside and the back of his gourd BH decided to put in a swing and a waterfall section. This photo was taken while the 'water' was still wet.







It took BH 32hrs (made up of 14 x 2hr lessons) to build and decorate his house.
The cost of the pre-made gourd was $35.00. The lights cost $15. The materials cost $15. The cost of the lessons were mostly $10 an hour but there were four hours at $15 each hour due to the other students finishing their houses and BH decided to continue adding more and more.

I am extremely pleased with this house and the imagination that has gone into it.

STUDENT - Penguin House - KH

I have three new students. Three boys! This is a really interesting challenge. I have never really had to deal with boys. I had two girls of my own which of course are all grown up.

I am finding it fascinating how different each boy is. The way they do their work, the ideas they have come up with. It is really interesting.

I am also very pleased to say that they are all doing very well. Two boys are aged 10 and the other is 8 1/2. I was unsure about having someone so young (as I had never dealt, in this capacity, with someone of this age before) because we are dealing with knives, saws, a soldering iron, drill etc but I am pleased that the young lad, as with the other two, have handled them with ease. 

Their creativity is soo different and I can't wait to see the finished projects and put them up on my blog for you all to see.

STUDENT:- PENGUIN HOUSE - (Pseudo name -PH)
 PH, who is 8 1/2years old, was the first boy to finish his house. He wanted to build a penguin in a workshop.

This is the pre-made gourd

He wire up a box with a blue flashing light. Made a table and a tall cupboard.

 He made an amazing penguin using aluminum foil as the core and then covering it with polymer clay which was then cooked.  
 

This PH's finished house with the blue flashing light on

This is it with the light off. Notice the red tool box and the clock on the wall

The cost of the gourd was $25.00. The Materials$15.00. The Lights were $15.00 and the classes were $10 an hour.
It took PH 24 hrs made up of 12 x 2 hr lessons.

Prana Writers Gold Coast Antholgy

Prana Writers Gold Coast Antholgy

I am pleased to annouce that Prana Writers, who I am a member of, have released the Cold Coast Anthology webpage.

The idea is to encorage people to submit their written works and the chosen ones will be published.

http://goldcoastanthology.info/

There is also a facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/GoldCoastAnthology#!/GoldCoastAnthology




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