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letters made individually and presented as a photo collage

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Park Campus example using letters onto the aerial view version of the map.

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Park Campus example

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Park Campus example

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Park Campus example

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Flock Together by Locke and Dudman

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Susan Coles and Battyeford Primary School making and using machines to draw with.

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On Saturday the 4th of July Battyeford Primary School hosted a family event,funded kindly by Creative Scene, through their DO IT fund.

We saw many families from our community come through the door to get stuck in to making a range of incredible 'Mark Making Machines', we let our imaginations run riot and most of all we learnt, shared and had terrific enjoyment! We laughed a lot too! Don't they say laughter is the best tonic?! During the day we hosted two events.

With our funding I was able to ask Susan M Coles, National Consultant (based in the North East), to help host the event. She started us off by introducing us to the inventions of Leonardo Da Vinci. Leonardo was one of the most prolific inventors of all times, a scientist, artist, architect, engineer and more, he was never afraid to take risks and test out his ideas. Susan with the NEATEN teachers group and the Baltic in Newcastle won the Big Draw Awards 2014, for a similar project to ours. We were in good hands!

Susan set us off with the task of creating a machine (we only had two hours, to design, make and perform our machine), that could simply make a mark.

Fabric Lenny also came to help out with delivery on the day (following on from his prior RABBBOT workshop the weekend before)...he helped us add extra features to our machines.

The elephant - just in development! We had a brilliant moment when one of the little boys attending thought it was real...so lovely!

Front and back views of a partial machine!

Is this the back or the front of the Mean Machine?????

This skeleton drawing machine was brilliant in performance! All its limbs dragging across the paper catwalk!

The 'Mean Machine' in action! This family of four (Mum and Dad are not performing) created a brilliant wheelbarrow machine. Fantastic!

A Reptilian Drawing Machine with amazing proboscis, created cool swirls across the hall floor (best not tell the Caretaker)!

Above ...The Mischievous Minion Machine!

The 'Human Spirograph' below was a piece of engineering genius! Also the whole family were really brave and choreographed a routine that took them up, down and around the catwalk...what superstars they were! Love it!

We were all in awe of this little one (Just 2 yrs old) and not yet a member of the school community, but living locally. After seeing what she could achieve aged 2, I so hope I get this one in my art class in a few years time! The brilliant 'Little Elephant' Drawing Machine...and so, so brave...she performed as well !

Here is Susan assisting one of our Yr 1 pupils who is attending with his family.

Moving swiftly...too fast for my camera!

Brilliant team work from two sisters and a cousin!

More fast movers! The 'Raptor' and 'Funky Feet'! I am afraid I didn't manage to get the feet in! However we had a moment of madness when those feet got stuck!

'Those boots (and claws) are made for drawing, and that's just what they'll do...one of these days those boots (and claws) are gonna draw all over you!"

The fabulous 'Wolverine Drawing Machine'.

The 'Princess Drawing Machine' - that corset hurts!

What a great day of togetherness. Experimental, inventive extreme mark making! Thanks to all who attended, I know you all really enjoyed the activity. FUN!

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Day 2 of Creative Action! The 'Drawing Machine' Family Event

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On Saturday the 4th of July Battyeford Primary School hosted a family event,funded kindly by Creative Scene, through their DO IT fund. We saw many families from our community come through the door to get stuck in to making a range of incredible 'Mark Making Machines', we let our imaginations run riot and most of all we learnt, shared and had terrific enjoyment!

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Creating art from GPS trackers on people, dogs and sheep. (Debbie Locke and Sara Dudman)

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Drawing Machine Workshops at Thelma Hulbert Gallery

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To accompany our exhibition, we have been leading workshops at Thelma Hulbert Gallery for local schools and art groups and this week, over several days, we were delighted to be joined by students from Littletown Primary, Honiton Primary and WESC Foundation for students with visual impairment.

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The blog of Stephen Lund who creates GPS art on his bicycle.

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In the Chinese zodiac, 2018 is the Year of the Dog. So to join my already-doodled canine collection featured below (including Doggie Do(odle), Growly Dog with a Ball, Superdawg and, I suppose, this aberration), I doodled another dog today. He seems kinda cartoony. I think I'll call him AeroDog.

Click to see the AeroDog doodle in action

Growly and possessive dog with a ball (May 20, 2016) * See it on Strava

Doggie do(odle) (March 14, 2016) * See it on Strava

After a way-too-long hiatus, I'm looking forward to getting back into the GPS Doodling groove in 2018. I figured I'd kick off a new year of doodling the same way I kicked off the whole phenomenon back in 2015 ...with a little bike-writing on frosty roads on the first day of the New Year. You can watch the Doodle take shape in the Relive.cc video below...
* Note: The GPS points will render correctly only if you are logged in at Strava.com
Sometimes I do a GPS Doodle thinking it's one thing, but it turns out to look like something else altogether. Case in point: today's Doodle.

The picture I planned was one of those flappy, floppy "airdancers" you often see outside gas stations and tire shops. (Fans of will know what I'm talking about.) But as soon as I uploaded my 51 kilometre (32 mile) ride to Strava, people started commenting.

"It looks like an Ent from Lord of the Rings," said one. (Interestingly, today is Tolkien Reading Day.) "Hey - it's the Cheestrings guy!" said another. Someone else thought it was Gumby. And my wife wondered if it was a cartoon carrot or parsnip.

Any other interpretations out there?
* Note: The GPS points will render correctly only if you are logged in at Strava.com

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In the Chinese zodiac, 2018 is the Year of the Dog. So to join my already-doodled canine collection featured below (including Doggie Do(odle), Growly Dog with a Ball, Superdawg and, I suppose, this aberration), I doodled another dog today. He seems kinda cartoony. I think I'll call him AeroDog.

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Created on the Strava using a bicycle by Stephen Lund.

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example created by Richard Masoner on the Strava app (image from Flickr)

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example created on Map My Run