TATE KIDS

The Idea

Artists such as Marc Quinn have created wonderful giant sculptures of flowers. Marc created a fantastic sculpture of a giant orchid outside Tate Britain. He called it “The Overwhelming World of Desire” (Paphiopedilum Winston Churchill Hybrid).

Marc Quinn, The Overwhelming World of Desire (Paphiopedilum Winston Churchill Hybrid), © The Artist
Photo: Marcella Leith

 

The Plan

You are going to create your own 3D flower that you can “plant” out in a garden or even a make believe garden. If you work with friends you could create your own spectacular fantasy garden. You might even choose to wear your flower as a costume.

You Need

• Coloured card.
• Paint, crayons, pastels etc.
• Various pieces of coloured paper etc if you want to stick additional patterns on your flower.
• Bamboo sticks.
• Glue, sellotape, scissors etc.

Do it!

• First of all you need to look carefully at the flowers in your garden or in a public garden if you do not have one of your own.
• Take notice of the different colours and shapes of the flowers and think about how you could recreate them.
• Create your flowers. Check out the ideas below in “Top Tips”.
• Give you flower its own name. Why not give it a very long Latin name like Marc Quinn did (or make up a nonsense name if you like.)
• “Plant” your flower.

Top Tips

• You can create interesting surfaces for your flower by rubbing crayons over raised surfaces.
• Give depth to your flower by building up layers of card.
• If you decide to wear your flower you could cut a hole in the card to fit your head through. Otherwise strap giant leaves to your arms by sticking loops of card on the back of your design.