Wire modelling Week 1: So, I had a request to do some wire modelling with my Tuesday evening class…. a few months ago we did a very brief activity as part of a bigger holiday workshop session – I introduced the idea of sculpting wire figures and using papier-mâché to form simple shapes and make …
Music, Movement and Mark-making The holiday workshops took in loads of different activities all based around music, movement, mark making and patterns. As always, I set the scene with the young artists and we talked about patterns, numbers, music, mood, colour – they shared their ideas as much as I gave them some background information. …
Day 3 of walking with my camera and I’m exploring the wide open space at St Cyrus beach – the perfect spot for capturing the gorgeous changing light and colours of the Scottish landscape as well as being able to focus on the subtleties of the distant horizon. Seascapes are a favourite place to explore: …
Continuing with my walk spree, this morning I found myself up bright and early on a not so bright day – to be honest it was all a bit dank and dull. But not to put me off – the opportunities I have to walk with my camera are quite rare at the moment, so …
A rare opportunity came my way today. . . a walk with my husband and my camera with no children in tow. The sun was shining and it was a beautiful spring day. I am about to embark on a long overdue painting session – my head is bursting with ideas, but I’ve just not …
Under the Sea Week 6: For the last week of this block, we rounded up the activities going back to some of the books we had spent time looking at, at the start of the workshop block. Everyone chose an excerpt from one of the books to illustrate – each one had lovely descriptive words …