Picture framing
Making a frame from scrap cardboard and it opens up all kinds of possibilities!
Frames can be used to focus our attention visually in all kinds of ways. They can simply be made from cardboard, old picture frames, sticks tied together, hula hoops...the possibilities are endless. Here are just a few of the ways you can use them on your visits to the farm or countryside...to see in new ways.
Setting specific tasks can be fun, in small groups or as individuals...why not frame something you like, a good picture that you would take with a camera to remember your visit? Or, frame a picture that has 4 animals in it, a picture that captures the weather, the shapes in the clouds. Or search for something red, spiky, round or long, something that shows food, or something that shows nature at work on the farm.
Documenting what you frame with a digital camera will mean you can ‘show and tell’ with others long after your visit is over. Have a look below at some of our photos for ideas.
Checking out the detail through a toilet paper tube.
Looking for shapes.
Matching colours using paint chart squares.
What's on the horizon?
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“I find our visitors mostly use the frames to look at distance objects, the horizon etc, and then they are carried over wrists to use like cameras!”
Sue Padfield, Church Farm
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Look north, south, east and west...using a compass.
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“We tend to use the frames with a compass - getting people to look in one direction and we say what they can see – what’s in the view etc - colours, shapes, landscape features, focusing on what can be seen from the 4 compass points.
We also bring in how we see from the front, cows see from the side, and we sometimes take the frame to two different places so that people can have another look to cement the lovely scenery that we have here.”
Pat Pimlott, Park Hill Farm
First framing, second, sketching.
"I’ve used them with groups following a sensory treasure hunt getting them to arrange their finds as a picture in the frame. We also use them to focus on an area for a sketching exercise."
Debs Bull, Worcestershire Wildlife Trust
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Spot the farm animal descended from a dinosaur!
Look down and discover who lives in the detail.
Make a self portrait!
Want to see more? Click on the photo below to see how a morning's framing on Fosse Farm in Somerset opened up a world of seeing patterns, shapes and colours.
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Lastly, here is the 'Cloud cinema' (Wolkenkino) in the woods on the Kitzbuhelerhorn mountain in Austria.
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