Planning for the Saturday workshop continued today at a coffee shop in Vancouver
where we worked on the handout for the workshop, Art in the Garden: Nature
Paintbrushes & Weaving including the schedule of events, information about the
activities and a write-up of the recipes that we will be introducing on Saturday.
where we worked on the handout for the workshop, Art in the Garden: Nature
Paintbrushes & Weaving including the schedule of events, information about the
activities and a write-up of the recipes that we will be introducing on Saturday.
Coffee shops are a great place to hang out and plan :)
We also went home and worked on creating natural paintbrushes from materials
collected in our yards, gardens and the local environment. Experimenting with
using blackberry bark as a way to attach items together has been an interesting
exercise as it is tight enough to attach things together but can be a bit challenging
to tie and sometimes difficult to tie tight enough. While we will try blackberry bark as
a material at the UBC Orchard Garden on Saturday, we will also bring some hemp rope
with us in case participants would like to try a variety of ways of attaching materials
together. Some items that were collected to try to create the paint brushes were sticks,
moss, leaves, flowers, blackberry bark, pine cones and more. Katy’s daughter, Eva, got
creative with taking photographs of the prototypes, they make great pieces of art as well
as being paintbrushes. Students in classrooms may decide to make a variety of tools, use
some with paint and others as stand-alone pieces. We’re curious to see what the
provocation and exploration of this activity leads to for participants :)
collected in our yards, gardens and the local environment. Experimenting with
using blackberry bark as a way to attach items together has been an interesting
exercise as it is tight enough to attach things together but can be a bit challenging
to tie and sometimes difficult to tie tight enough. While we will try blackberry bark as
a material at the UBC Orchard Garden on Saturday, we will also bring some hemp rope
with us in case participants would like to try a variety of ways of attaching materials
together. Some items that were collected to try to create the paint brushes were sticks,
moss, leaves, flowers, blackberry bark, pine cones and more. Katy’s daughter, Eva, got
creative with taking photographs of the prototypes, they make great pieces of art as well
as being paintbrushes. Students in classrooms may decide to make a variety of tools, use
some with paint and others as stand-alone pieces. We’re curious to see what the
provocation and exploration of this activity leads to for participants :)
Items collected from the garden and the local environment.
Stripping blackberry bark to make ties for the paintbrushes.
A stick, a grape leaf and a blackberry tie do the trick to make a paintbrush!
Three examples of paintbrushes made from garden materials.
It can be fun to use the paintbrushes as art pieces and/or installations in the garden!
We plan to invite workshop participants to create some signs for various sites in the
Orchard Garden (the bees, herbs, 3 Sisters planting, etc) using their created painting
tools. We’re grappling with the question of what to paint on? Jen found some bits of leftover
lumber, but they look a bit too dirt-sodden for signage painting. Jo may have saved the day
by offering to bring some long boards that were the outskirts of a recycled door that was cut
up to make our permaculture signs a couple of weeks back, and Katy is checking with a
neighbour who may have some lumber. We are getting a taste of the resourcefulness that
teachers use to make things happen in the garden in a sustainable way!
Orchard Garden (the bees, herbs, 3 Sisters planting, etc) using their created painting
tools. We’re grappling with the question of what to paint on? Jen found some bits of leftover
lumber, but they look a bit too dirt-sodden for signage painting. Jo may have saved the day
by offering to bring some long boards that were the outskirts of a recycled door that was cut
up to make our permaculture signs a couple of weeks back, and Katy is checking with a
neighbour who may have some lumber. We are getting a taste of the resourcefulness that
teachers use to make things happen in the garden in a sustainable way!
See you on Saturday!
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