The day we made little wire figures!

Well now we have the shop gallery the WellArt turned its thoughts to creating some pieces of sculpture that could go into it. We plan to have a multitude of small figure heading up the wall of the shop then out across the ceiling.

We made them by bending wire, three equal pieces, first for the head and body then the arms and the last bit the legs. Twist or hold them in place with masking tape. Then tightly wrap round the figures with newspaper or scrap and hold with masking tape again to form the rough shape and bulk out the figures. Finally wrap bandage with plaster of paris just like they use in hospitals for breaks. You can buy it in art shops but you can also get it from some craft shops or online cheaper.

Of course you dont need to do figures you could do animals too! Ant way multiples always look good.

Final job when the plaster has dried is to paint them All the same colour works well but really bright and luminous colours too. We will put them in our gallery on Thursday so I will take some pics and put them here.