My Dog Sighs

Lost and Found workshop

Many thanks to My Dog Sighs, who joined us today for a workshop and tasked the first years with finding a discarded item which they could up cycle into a characterful animal.

They returned with a wide array of found items to transform into original artworks and then return to the original location, photograph and leave behind, to be found and possibly kept by a passer by. Inspired by artworks shown by My Dog Sighs the students were introduced to the concept behind Free Art Friday, a global community of artists creating work which is returned and left for any member of the public to take home and enjoy.

The weeks so far spent studying the characteristics of the animals is becoming more apparent in the pieces the students produced.

Tegan Meredith - My Dog Sighs Level 4 Workshop - Hedgehog

For this workshop we had visiting artist, My Dog Sighs, showing us how we can create a piece of artwork by up-cycling rubbish found around Pompey. We were shown examples of My Dog Sighs own work to give us inspiration to go out to find our own objects to transform into a personified piece of Free Art.  

I found a piece of wood with nails sticking out from it, which I thought would be perfect for creating a hedgehog to put towards my Research Methodology project.

After painting my hedgehog, I had to return it to the staircase I found it under in the city centre - this was difficult as I was quite attached to Mr Hedgey!

George Hinchliffe - Tree Frog lighter

Made as part of level 4's "My Dog Sighs" workshop, this green lighter found discarded among the hedges longed for something more, to become a "Red eyed tree frog" and with a little bit of paint and cardboard his dream came true, jumping back out into world a beautiful (all be it flammable) little frog.

Workshop with Los Dave

Earlier this week Los Dave worked with the first years to explore the movement and balance of the animals being studied in our current unit 'Research Methodology' and express it in found materials, (namely barbecue grills, wire, sticks and string) He outlined an initial modelling technique using Blu Tac to capture the movement in 3 dimensions, before developing it using the intended media.

For more info on Los Dave see www.losdave.bigcartel.com

My Dog Sighs workshop

This week there has been a really inspiring workshop run by My Dog Sighs about upcycling a piece of found flotsam and jetsam and reworking it into a character and returning it to where it was found to fend for itself. Many of the first years developed animal characters from their found piece - we are looking forward to seeing the photographs taken of them back in the place they were found.

For more info about the man behind the workshop see; mydogsighs.co.uk