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Junior Art Clubs artwork still on tour! So proud that our Junior Art Clubs fabulous Dinosaur world print and collage continues its National Tour as part of Engage, Generation Arts Young artists tour. Find out more here: http://engage.org/genart.aspx
EBB and FLOW continued… The paintings for this project are now finished and they are WONDERFUL! A group of 10-13 yr olds have, in only 6 weekly sessions, experimented with materials and concept in order to create large scale paintings to be hung along the river wall in the centre of Holmfirth. Our young artists
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Week 5 Ebb and Flow This week group have been really moving on with their paintings…editing poems created by exploring a flow of consciousness and creating rhythm and improvised melodies…
The tentacles theme is proving a real hit! Everyone loves drawing a tentacle! From our pre-schoolers to our older teenagers and adults at Monday evenings drawing class. Little Art Club have been using this theme to explore circles. They made paper plate octopuses and used bottle tops to print suckers onto their tentacles. They practiced drawing
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
Ebb and Flow Project so far… Wow! What a productive week 2! Our session started with a visit from artist John Holt who talked about fluidity and flow : John then lead a drawing session which encouraged our young artists to use line to describe flow and to investigate and map their painted grounds.
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Really exciting news… The Children’s Art School has secured the funding for this fantastic multi- art project this autumn half term thanks to Kirklees Arts in the Neighbourhood and Arts Council England. We need enthusiastic young people to come and develop ideas in word, sound and paint around the theme of the river. We will be