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Interested in our groups and want to know more about us and what we will be doing in the coming term? Read on! What we have been doing: Despite a year of lockdown we have been incredibly busy in 2020-2021. We have developed and delivered 8300 art packs to children across Kirklees as part of
With support from Holme Valley Parish Council we have been creating paintings to be exhibited around Holmfirth for the coming festivals. These photographs show works in progress by year 5 at Holmfirth JI and N school. Gorgeous colourful paintings which represent the festivals and the community events in Holmfirth. Look out for them in the
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Our Intermediate and senior groups really outshone themselves with this fantastic Halloween big draw! Using themselves (by drawing around each other) they used light and dark to create these skeletal/ghostly figures: Seniors started adding an accessory here and there!!
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What a great project this has been! Building, painting, drawing, collaging and printing robots… Everyone has really loved it! Little Art Club made robots… Painted robots.. and created dramatic backdrops for the robots.. Juniors made robots, painted robots…. drew their robots…. created dramatic skies… made a fabulous collage of their robots… and created their own
Only 6 weeks in to our residency and we are loving working with Huddersfield children in our studio at Byram Arcade. So far we have created a cardboard town… …with roads and buses…. ….created wonderful paintings of the Huddersfield town centre exploring architectural shapes and colours…. …. made charcoal drawings of the cardboard town created in the
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All our groups have been busy imagining what Hope Bank Pleasure Gardens must have looked like Little Art Club have created flowers for the garden and a train for visitors to ride in.. and have used printing techniques to create a train track… Intermediates have been drawing carousels using charcoal and collaged characters into
“Wanted – your memories of Hope Bank Pleasure Grounds” Family Open Day – Saturday 29th October 1pm-4pm We have been working with Holme Valley Sharing Memories group to create a range of artworks to support their open day inviting residents from the Holme Valley to share their memories of Hope Bank Pleasure Grounds near Honley. The
WOW! What an amazing day! We are so proud to have been a part of the Holmfirth Arts Festival Creature Carnival Parade.. The Children’s Art School provided the ‘Bird’ section of the parade- here they all are pre-parade but ready to go!! Little Art Club and Juniors were ducklings hatching out of eggs: Whilst their
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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
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