Hello! Welcome to our last day of Nature Wonderers: Rediscover Your Curiosity and Creativity!

It has been wonderful to plan and create this course for you, and I hope you have enjoyed your experience.

In the course so far we have:

  • Found inspiration in the natural world which we have recorded in photographs.

  • Created a colour palette inspired by this.

  • Use this as a prompt to free write about our experiences with nature.

  • Selected word or a phrase from this that was meaningful to us.

  • Created an illuminated text using these words or phrase.

  • Use our colour palette and illuminated writing to inspire a moodboard.

  • Explored the shapes that have appeared for us throughout this process.

  • Experimented with representing these as observational drawings or abstract shapes.

  • Played with paper and the ways we can manipulate or change it to represent natural forms. 

Today we care going to bring everything together and create a beautiful paper wreath that celebrates your own journey on this course, and that you can display for future inspiration.

Materials


The first part of this is to bring together everything that you have worked on so far on the course, as we will be using this to base our wreath on. You will also need to gather together materials to use. 

Essential materials will be:

  • Papers: try to collect paper the colours of your palette but you can use plain papers and paint or colour these

  • A base for your wreath. This can be a cardboard ring or it could be a wire or embroidery hoop.

  • A pencil or pen for drawing shapes.

  • Scissors: If possible use sharp pointed scissors, like embroidery or paper craft scissors, but you will be able to work with everyday scissors

  • Glue: This can be PVA glue, a glue stick, UHU...whatever you have to hand. In this workshop I will be using PVA as I find it the most flexible with different materials. If you are using an embroidery hoop or wire hoop as your base you will also need a glue gun.

  • Thread, wool or string to hang your wreath up!

Other materials you may want to use could include:

  • Paint for adding detail and decoration.

  • Found natural objects like leaves, pine cones or feathers

  • Anything else that makes you happy!



Making Your Paper Wreath

In the video below I’m going to show you the process of creating my own wreath, which I hope will give you the ideas and inspiration you need to make yours

So we’ve reached the end of Nature Wonderers: Rediscover You Curiosity and Creativity!

I hope the course has encouraged you in learning more about the nature around you, and ways that this can fit into your daily life, that it has helped you discover new ways to be creative, and it has supported you to rediscover what inspiration in your daily life looks like for you.

It would be wonderful to see what you have created, so please feel free to email me at info@eleanorchaney.com or to use the #naturewonderersrediscover over on Instagram.

I have loved putting this course together. It’s allowed me to look at what I find inspiring, and then translate this into something that other people can, I hope, enjoy and make unique for them.

If you’d like to develop your journey to the next level then please take a look at my upcoming workshops and courses. These are constantly being added to as I explore all the ways I can share my 15 years experience of teaching art to as many people as possible online, and I would love to get to know some of you better and support your creative path.