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We have made a start on one of the exciting projects for Our Biennale 2018 (an arts festival for children and young people in Kirklees taking place this autumn). The Great Kirklees Railway Exhibition aims to create 100 paintings by Kirklees children and young people to be exhibited along platforms of stations along the Penistone
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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
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
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
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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