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Engage

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

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Ebb and Flow paintings

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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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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Ebb and Flow

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

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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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Holmfirth Arts Festival-finale!

Big thanks to Holmfirth Arts Festival! The Owd Towser was the perfect place for the installation of  The 180  Boggards and Jenny Green teeth puppets made by local 8-14 year olds! The project has not only engaged children with the Arts through making, music and poetry but has also engaged them with local history .

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Colourful, large-scale paintings at The Children's Art School Holmfirth

Colour and scale

How lovely to walk in to all this colour in the studio!I love it when our Art School children work BIG! The large boards in this photo are work in progress by children aged between 9 and 12. Based on using the letters of HOPE BANK WORKS to create a composition and using colour theory

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