Wire mobiles diy

Here’s a great idea for a DIY art project you can make, inspired by the art of Mark Hearld. Hearld is a British artist whose gorgeous prints, illustrations, and ceramics depict British fauna and flora dancing with color and movement. His installation at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park is a huge flock of painted wood birds suspended over visitors— something I dreamed of hanging in my house. Alas, I’ll have to (happily) make do with this DIY bird mobile I concocted instead.

Explaining the basics about balance when building an art mobile / hanging kinetic sculpture - With illustrations / images - Contact me if you need more help

Mobiles are relatively cheap and easy to make at home. They make great crafts for kids to work on and, if sturdy materials are used, they can even be hung as decorations in a baby's nursery. Here are a few different ways you can make your...

Mobiles by Julie Frith, Modern hanging mobile art sculptures and tabletop stabiles, custom color, size and design. Baby mobiles, hanging kinetic wire art mobiles, original Calder styled mobile sculpture, custom coloring online.

I love Alexander Calder! I teach a Calder wire project each year, but I have never successfully made a Calder-inspired mobile. Until now! I recently received this 1975 edition of Making Things: Book 2. The Handbook of Creative Discovery by Ann Wiseman. Inside this gloriously illustrated book I found these instructions for making Calder mobiles: I decided to test it out with items I had on hand in the art room. Materials for first mobile: 18-inch pre-cut Stem Wire (AKA floral wire) 20 gauge…

Calder-style Modern Art Mobile: Alexander Calder is one of my favourite artists and arguably the king of hanging sculptures, or modern mobiles as they are often referred to (although, he has worked in many more mediums). I love the playfulness of his work and photos of Calder alwa…

The team behind Fort Makers don’t refer to themselves as a design studio but rather an “artist collective,” and there’s a marked difference: They make functional objects, but instead of producing a stream of products with a unified aesthetic, they each work individually under the studio umbrella, experimenting with whatever interests them at any given time. In a way, it’s that same sense of structureless structure that first attracted Noah Spencer to the idea of making mobiles: You can hang…

Information on the kinds of wire to use to make hanging mobile art and where you can get it

I'm starting to sound like my mother, going on about the weather every time I come online. But I am English and it's just been so glorious here the last couple of days, so... I'm ready for Spring. I've been pottering at home, dying for the first blossoms to appear, thinking about all the work that needs to be done in the garden and generally feeling very lucky to live in the South of France. Cécile Daladier's beautiful ceramics have something to do with this. I'm following her tumblr and…