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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…

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Try This DIY Art Project: How To Make a Handmade Bird Mobile — Apartment Therapy Tutorials Mobile Project, Bird Mobile, Diy Birds, Diy Mobile, Paper Birds, Mobile Art, Diy Art Projects, Themed Crafts, Cool Diy Projects

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.

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