A slideshow of the SCULPTURE UNVEILING

Nelson Mail article

Here is the link to Friday's article in the Nelson Mail about our sculptures. Unfortunately the great photo that made it into the paper is not visible online, but you can read the article that went along with it.

CLICK HERE TO VIEW IT.

Construction begins

Finally the day has come. We have finished carving! Phew! I never thought we'd make it. We have cut it very close, and have been burning some midnight oil to get here, but WE MADE IT!!

Mr Carter and Ian worked all day, concreting in the sculptures and gluing them together. What a huge effort.

More pictures to come of the unveiling ceremony.

all hands on deck

Mr Wemyss popped by for a look, and got roped into helping design the "togetherness" pillar.

The pillars take shape

Planning the pillars

Ian came and helped us to plan the pillars. It was very windy but we worked in groups to sketch ideas on the pillars. Ian has taken them away to cut, and then we'll do the finishing touches at school next week. Thanks to Brendan for lugging the blocks around!

Time is ticking...

Wow! Time flies when you're having fun.

This week we are planning the sculpture for the school garden.

It will be in the form of some pillars that will have details on them.

The clock on the right is ticking away and counting down...........

It's all coming together....

We are so excited!

We have nearly finished our "practice blocks", and have gotten used to the oamaru stone. In fact some of us are falling in love with it I think! It's a wonderful stone to work with - quite easy to carve, and we are finding all sorts of interesting markings in the stone, as well as rust spots/lines that make our sculptures more interesting.

The planning for the major school sculpture is nearing completion, and we hope to start carving early next week.

Ian has had some wonderful ideas, that have added to our already wonderful ideas - 2 heads are definately better than 1!

We are very excited................BUT.................things may start getting a bit secretive from now on.............not long until the unveling and we have to keep some things under wraps!

Ian came and talked to our class today about Oamaru stone and the tools we can use to carve it into shape.

We also played with some wooden blocks and tried to put them into the shape we might use for the final sculpture. It was a planning and practicing day.

We all got a small oamaru stone block to practice with, and we set to work. It was hard work, and very dusty, but lots of fun.

We found the limestone was quite easy to carve if you had the right tools. We will keep working with the blocks this week so we can get used to it before we begin the final design.

Ian also brought along some blocks that he had begun to carve so we could see how sculptures take shape. Here is a photo of some carvings that Ian started, based on our ideas so far. Can you tell which one is the mountain, which one is the sea, and which one symbolises Kiwi kids and their bare feet!

Oamaru Stone attempt #1

Sculptors at work on PhotoPeach

Kim met with Ian Longley yesterday. He had some great ideas about making our sculpture.

He will visit us on Tuesday and bring some smaller pieces of stone for us to practice with. We will also finalise our images and decide what we want on our blocks.

Designs

We have been finding out what people think is special about CTS and our community. Then we thought about what shapes and images would match these things and how they might look when carved into our stone. Here is a slideshow of our designs so far....

art designs on PhotoPeach

Limestone

Mr Wemyss has said that we can use some of the limestone blocks that currently live under the school, waiting for someone to bring them to life.

THAT IS US!

Mr Carter (and his muscles!) brought some blocks into our class this week so that we can look at the stone and see how easy, or hard it will be to carve. It is HEAVY and CRUMBLY.

We also sent an email to Mr Longley, a famous Nelson sculpture artist to see if he would be interested in helping us with our project. He says he'd love to! Yay!

Things are taking shape....

This week we "pulled apart" the task and looked at the key words.

We listed them on the wall and discussed them. Now we understand the key words and what our Inquiry task is.

Then we made a list of all the people who could help us, and the places we could go for more information.

Our next step is to interview our community about what they think is special to our area and our school.

It is the Nelson Arts Festival, and there are 4 people creating sculptures at Founder's Park. They work 12 - 4 pm in the weekends. It is amazing work and worth looking at. Maybe they can offer us some advice too.........

Welcome to our new blog!

We have created this blog for a special project that Room 14 is undertaking this term.

We will keep this blog updated so you can follow our progress as the term goes on.

It is going to be a huge project, so we thought it deserved its own blog!

This is the RICH TASK for our new Inquiry topic, called SMART ART:

"Design and create a piece of permanent outdoor art for Clifton Terrace School, that reflects the school and our community"

Look out Michaelangelo, here comes Room 14!!