It's muraltastic!

Whitefriars Infant School in Northamptonshire needed their playground wall brightening up... so who did they call? The Big Art People of course.
We were asked to do a big bright mural along a minibeasts theme, so first we got the children to produce some designs, then took an element from each one to produce this mockup of the final piece:


Everyone was happy with the design so we packed up our paints and headed down to the school. We passed two very windy days painstakingly transferring the children's wonderful minibeasts onto the wall:


Everyone was really pleased with the final piece. It certainly brightens up the playground! And it's all the children's work.
Hopefully we'll be back at Whitefriars next school year to do another giant art project on the front of the school. Any ideas?!

Jim (Big Artist)

What's taking root at Oughtibridge?

A giant pebble tree that's what!

Yes, we ventured north to surprisingly sunny Sheffield and helped the children make this huge 3m pebble mosaic tree:

All 300 children (the younger ones worked in pairs) made one leaf of the tree by carefully selecting pebbles of the right shape and colour and sticking them into some cement.

We got all the hundreds of leaves together on the playground and put the finishing touches on them by filing off any lumps and scrubbing off any paper that was stuck to the back of them.

All that was left was to make a tree trunk, then stick them all to the wall!

The Big Travelling Artist

Tim was stuck in the office during the first half of this week as I was hob-nobbing with the stars down in the Big Smoke. One Big Art Person was all that Newton Prep required for their weaving project, so I gamely volunteered to go down alone.
I worked with 250 infants over 2 days to produce these 4 brilliantly blue woven artworks. The children provided all the material, and I was there to supervise weaving and to staplegun it all together.


Many thanks to all of the staff and children at the school for making me feel so welcome, and to Tallulah (the work experience girl) for all of her help. Hopefully we'll be back next year!

Big Art Jim