How to Make Hanging Art Mobiles

Students will gain a understand of mobile making fundamentals; mobile naming conventions, lexicon, types and styles of mobiles including the difference between craft and fine art mobiles.

In this section we go over the minimum materials needed to design and construct your mobile. Included is a Materials and Tools Shopping Check List.

Students will gain insight into the tools needed for making their mobile prototype. Some tools they will already own and a few others will need to purchase from an art store, and or home improvement warehouse - also from the internet.

Famed American mobile maker Alexander Calder was well-known for taking a coil of wire with him wherever he traveled and bending the wire into all kinds of works of art including jewelry and even kitchen utensils. To bend the wire, he carried with him a favorite brand of pliers called “Bernard Pliers”. Students will learn about where and how they can purchase these same pliers on “eBay”.

Students will learn about: hanging hooks, assembly cardinal rules, labeling elements and supports.

Students will learn all about: supports, connectors, balance points, articulation/kinetic movement, and

hanging up a finished Mobile.

In this hands on Step by Step lecture learners will: learn about creating  2D rough draft mobile sketches, trace and cut out their mobile elements paper templates, transfer paper elements to mat board and then cut out all of their elements from mat board.

In this video you'll dive right in using coiled wire to support your elements we made in the last video, create end loops, balance point loops and work with jump rings.You will also start using the needle nose and round nose pliers.

In this video you'll use the round nose pliers to add a balance point loop to your first section of your mobile with the two elements. Once you complete this 1st section you'll then move on to create element #3 support.

In this section we cover a bit of mobile fine tuning by making sure jump rings and end loops are closed, and wires are arcing nicely.

For this painting Step by Step you'll paint your hanging elements with paint from your tubes of acrylic paint. Keep in mind  spray paint can be used well.

Yours truly has created an informative How to Make Mobile Art Resources List .PDF for you! You can find it in this lectures’ Resources Folder. There are links to mobile making materials, tools, good books, and some top mobile makers you may want to check out on the web. I will periodically up date this Resources List so check back here from time to time for an update.

Please visit my web site (www.RichardJohnJenkins.com) and email from there (Contact) with any suggestions for the list, or use the Q & A/feedback sections here on Udemy - thanks!

You completed your mobile making journey with me AND hopefully reached our goal – you made your very own cool modern hanging art mobile! Congratulations! You can now use your new found knowledge and skills to go forward to make really cool hanging art mobiles!

Please show me what you made here on Udemy! I would LOVE to see what you created.

If you thought I did a decent job on the course please take a moment out and post a rating - thanks! If you think I have room for improvement please let me know in the course Q & A or feedback.

Thank you so much for taking this journey with me!

Happy Mobile Making!

Richard John Jenkins