The Big Cat People

The Big Art People have been at those pebbles again! This time we spent 6 glorious days at St. James' Junior School in the centre of Derby, working with ALL year groups to produce these, frankly wonderful looking, big cats:

The designs are based on the school's 4 houses: Panther, Tiger, Lion, and Ocelot. Tim sketched them back in the office:

At the school the pebbles were sorted into colours, and the the four big cats were laid out in sandboxes. They were then painstakingly transferred, pebble by pebble, onto the wall by us and the children:

It was a tricky project to get right, but everyone worked really hard and I think you'll agree that the results are fantastic!

Thanks to all of the children at staff at the school; and special thanks to Andrew Buckenham for his help and support.

Jim (Big Artist)

Our First Video

You may have seen the Southfields Pebble Tiger skulking around our website in various places, well here is a video diary we made in the process edited down from hundreds of hours of footage into 5 minutes of pure viewing pleasure by Jim, just for you.

Hope you enjoy it!

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!