MATERIAL LISTS: I. All manner of sizes of relatively pristine card board , the thinner the better. Single ply and corrugated...paintable...Think recycled "Priority Mail" boxes, strong construction paper and the like. II. 1. Sharp cutting instruments: a. Xacto knife or scissors.. b. cutting mat, piece of press board to position and cut their shapes. c. metal straight edge and a spot to hang the mobile 2. Steel wire (19 gauge) cutting pliers and needle nose pliers **Optional materials/ paper clips, fish line, thin string 3. Thumb tacs, pins 4. Adhesive tape, masking tape, glue 5. Paints (fast drying or acrylic preferred) brushes and paper towels, or color papers that may be collaged with paste or spray glue. LAURENT DAVIDSON, an American artist, lives in Carmel, California since 1987. Before his settling in Monterey County, he lived and worked in France where his family has been established since 1953. His creativity in the pursuit of beauty through the Arts has taken many forms. Some people know him more as painter of dream scapes and other invented figures, others remember him as a printer of lithographs and monotypes. Laurent first experimented with "Mobiles" at the age of thirteen when living in Sache, France, next door to Alexander "Sandy" Calder, the world renowned artist who developed and popularized the unique art of Mobile making. it was the study of music and chromatic harmony that initiated Laurent's renewed interest in Mobile making. Made of elemental shapes ...
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