Ebb and flow
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…
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
Why our children will need to be Creative
Why our children will NEED to be creative.. I have been sharing 2 really interesting and thought provoking articles this week- both touch on the theme of how best to equip our children for the future. The first is a TED talk .. . And the second is this article : Dustin TimbrookFeb 16, 20158
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Junior tentacles!
Junior tentacles! So proud of our junior artists who have tackled 3D form through using light and shade so brilliantly! Really lovely drawings and some of these artists are only 4 years old!
More Tentacles!
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
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
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
Yr 6 Group explores ‘Clockwork’ by Philip Pullman
Yr 6 Group explores ‘Clockwork’ by Philip Pullman A really exciting and productive day was spent exploring visual language to represent themes and ideas from the book ‘Clockwork’ by Philip Pulman with a YR6 class. ‘Clockwork’ is a dark story but with really interesting comments on creativity and the creative process. There is a moment
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Ebb and Flow project so far
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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Why we need Art in Education
Last week I was talking in assemblies at Holmfirth High School about creativity and the need for education to develop creative thinking I was therefore pleased to see this article in The Observer this weekend which echoes some of what I was taking about.. http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2016/jan/09/uk-global-arts-race-music-tv? From hit shows such as War Horse and Sherlock to
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