"Creativity & Cocktails" - sticky backed plastic workshop for adults!

I had a great night last night at Dot to Dot Gallery in Letchworth, running an adults sticky plastic collage workshop for adults. It was the very first I have done using the plastic, but having run countless workshops with paper cutting, I knew it would work well as its such an accessible medium. Artist Venice Shone, who works at Dot To Dot, made some awesome cocktails and we worked to the sound of summer thunder. The heavens opened and it felt very tropical! I brought lots of plastic for people to use, along with books to inspire them which featured Eskimo art, snowflake photos and other visual resources. We chatted away as we worked and also were relatively quiet at times too when everyone was working in the zone. Everyone said how much they enjoyed the evening and working with the plastic. 

The vinyl we used is scrap leftovers from the sign writing and lorry livery logo industry. I was very kindly given lots of rolls of different colours by Character Signs in Stevenage. It is very high quality and can be used outside on banners and murals, as long as the surface won't warp. It is destined for landfill, which seems terrible when we have such big climate change on our doorstep. Although we can't recycled the backing paper as that is plastic coated, at least we were able to make some beautiful art and save some from being buried. 

"Up the Garden Path" - part of Letchworth Rotary's big lunch in Howard Gardens...

On June the 1st I did another sticky vinyl mural event! This time for the Letchworth Rotary Club via the social enterprise Rhapsode for the "Big Lunch event in Howard Gardens, Letchworth Garden City. This was a drop in session for all ages to come and make a sticky backed plastic garden path - a mural to be used for all sorts of things after the event.  It was great fun! and we made a wonderful mural that was vibrant and bright and full of wonderfulness!! And even better - ALL ages were involved and all types of families....so it reached across the social spectrum. That's the great thing about art, and the plastic too; it isn't scary as a medium and anyone can have a go and it just makes people feel good to create and be part of something....

The prepared backing board.....

A shoe box of cut up leaves, petals and flowers to stick down....

Tug o' War at the event!

It was a full day in the gardens with crowds and crowds...

The final mural! isn't it lovely in its flowery plastic stickiness!!