Transitional Cathedral

Signing my tube

Painting in pairs

Laminate beams

I have just been helping get the cardboard tubes ready for the Transitional Cathedral. Each giant tube needs at least 3 coats of a sealer to make it waterproof. Painters work in pairs , trying not to bump into each other. After a while you get a rhythm going with your partner working your way along the tube. The sealer dries quite fast so you don't have long to get the finish just right.
It was not possible to make the tubes as thick as Shigeru Ban, the architect, would like in Christchurch, so each tube has a laminated wood beam running through it.  There are 500 tubes to be painted. Each volunteer is allowed to sign a tube on the inside. Large bolts hold the tubes in place.
It will be fun when the building is finally up to guess which is my tube. I will probably be judging the quality of the painting too!

Links
Transitional Cathedral Project
Window design
Shigeru Ban Architects

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Ryan's holiday project

Below is Ryan Bishop's holiday project. To my great delight he took on board a 'what next idea' and applied it to his black and white drypoint print. Well done Ryan, considered and exciting use of colour.

Mrs Taylor

Well first I got the idea from Mrs Taylor who said, "if you have a scanner at home you can scan the picture, and if you have a paint program you can edit the picture add some colour to it".
I did not have a scanner at home or a printer. So I went to Paper Plus and they scanned it for me and sent it to my email address.
That night I went onto the computer and looked for a paint program and there it was. It was called 'Paint'
So I got started. It was hard some times when I was going to put  colour on it the whole thing went green it took a while to do but it was worth it. 

Ryan Bishop

Year 7