Ideas: Wax sculpture

Science and art - How to make a wax model, with Eleanor Crook - Wellcome Collection

In this video Eleanor Crook shows us how to make a realistic sculpture of a head using a soft modelling wax

Artist: Frida Kahlo

A tribute to Frida Kahlo through photos

Artist: Frida Kahlo

A collection of Frida Kahlo's work, famous quotes and photographs

Observational drawing: hand

When applying tone I used curved pencil lines to make the hand look rounded. Straight lines make an object look flat.

Artist: Francis Bacon

Walking into an artist's studio is like 'walking into the artist's head'

This video clip, advertising an exhibition held in Dublin last year, shows the studio of Francis Bacon, one of Britain's most popular and successful modern painters.

Look at the way he crumpled and tore photos to inspire his paintings.

Workshop: How to paint a fluffy white cloud in acrylics

Clearly demonstrated

Workshop: How to blend a blue sky in acrylics.

Clearly demonstrated

News: Ai Weiwei's Sunflower seeds at the Tate

This installation by Ai Weiwei is the latest in the Unilever series at The Tate Modern. A team of 1600 people in China produced 100 million of these sunflower seeds using porcelain and painting them by hand.

It was intended that the work should be interactive, with visitors free to walk on the porcelain seeds. Unfortunately the dust from the seeds proved to be a health and safety hazard so now the work can only be viewed and not touched.

The installation will remain at the Tate until 2nd May 2011

Workshop: Teesha Moore's Amazing 16 Page Journal Part 2 of 2

This is the second part of Teesha Moore's video on how to make a journal [watch part 1 first]

If you like the look of her journals take a look at her other workshops on YouTube. She uses collage and lettering in a really interesting way.

Workshop: Teesha Moore's Amazing 16 Page Journal Part 1 of 2

Teesha Moore is an American artist who produces volumes of art journals. In this video clip she demonstrates how you can make your own journal from one large sheet of paper. Feel free to use any type of paper [watercolour paper is good] and make it any size.

Don't forget to watch the second part of this video which shows you how to stitch the journal together.

Ideas: Soap sculptures

An easy and inexpensive way to make small scale sculpture at home.

You will need:
1. A bar of soap
2. A sharp point [like a needle or compass] to lightly scratch on your design
3. A teaspoon to scrape away large areas of soap
4. A small flat screwdriver to scrape away smaller areas of soap. [A metal nail file could also be used here - improvise!]
As soap is soft you do not need to use knives or other potentially dangerous equipment.

Ideas: Making sculpture from paper

Consider ways you can make sculpture from paper:
fold it
curl it
tear it
cut it
shred it
roll it
twist it
glue it