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Woven

Woven is a Kirklees celebration of all things Textiles taking place between 8th-16th June 2019 As part of Woven The Children’s Art School have been busy delivering the Future Fashion Challenge project to Kirklees schools for the festival. We have recruited 16 schools and worked with 500 children to deliver artist led workshops developing innovative

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Tentacle-tastic

Tentacle-tastic Saturday Drawing tentacles today has provided a great way for our children and  young people to explore creating the illusion of form using light and shade. The Intermediate group explored mixing tones… They also created a gorgeous big print using bubble wrap to create tentacle-textures! Seniors continued to use charcoal and to develop our

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tentacles!

Inspired by the sea theme of The Little Mermaid our current project is using octopus tentacles to teach how to use use light and shade to create the illusion of 3D..This is going to be a really fun project for all our groups and teach them really valuable drawing skills… Our big drawing of a

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Octopuss

Little Mermaid

All our artists have been making 3D props for a local pantomime production of The Little Mermaid: Little Art Club and Saturday Juniors created Octopuses… And this gorgeous, enormous, 2D whale: Whilst Intermediate and Juniors created  amazing 3D whales using just newspaper, masking tape and Kitchen roll: Everyone from our 2 year olds to our

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Look at our BIG DRAW!

Look at what happened to our BIG DRAW! The Children’s Art School event for the BIG DRAW started on September 30th… and went on for over 8 weeks! Here’s what happened: Wednesday art club started it off by creating a wall by using pencils to make a rubbing of the wall beneath the paper. Then they

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