Autumn Term 2017 – week 3

Butterflies: Pattern, Mark making and Colour Week 3: The final week of this VERY short block is where the outcomes all varied – depending on age and ability and personal choice….. All the young creatives in the Saturday workshops were given a choice of how they wanted to make their final butterfly. Some of the

Autumn Term 2017 – week 2

Butterflies: Pattern, Mark making and Colour Week 2: So, after the colourful fun of week 1, it was time to start turning the beautiful patterned paper into something that looked like butterflies or moths. The young creatives were again shown images of butterflies to get further inspiration for patterns and shapes. Using the prepared paper,

Autumn Term 2017 – week 1

Butterflies: Pattern, Mark making and Colour Week 1: After what seems like a really long summer break the term-time workshops started back with lots of familiar faces returning and some new starts too!! Inspiration for this workshop block came from a summer visit to the Botanic Gardens in St Andrews  and the butterfly house. I’ve

Summer Holidays 2017

Day 1: Playing with Clay Using botanical inspiration and a load of mark making tools, the young artists were given the chance to simply play with clay! Making marks and shapes – which included pressing plants, Lego, screws, lace and letter stamps into the surface of the clay – they had fun creating patterns and

Summer Art Camp 2017

String Art So, for our first Summer Art Camp it was a bit of a throw back to a ‘crafting activity’ popular in the 1960s – String Art!!!* Perhaps a bit of a strange choice for a bunch of 8–13 year olds for a 5-hour art camp. But I had my reasons. First off, this

Summer Term 2017 – 3 week block (Sat & Weds)

Woodland Dioramas Week 1: I decided to revisit an idea I originally came up with when I had just started the Explore Play Create workshops – making diorama’s in shoe boxes, although back then we used pizza boxes!! The young artists had been promised a woodland themed activity and so I thought this would be

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