We are entering the last instalment of the Art Club now. The scene is set and all the Art Club members have to do is begin to peice together the story behind their constructed picture and behave like detectives for a while which in turn will help consolidate their learning.
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Storyboards begin…..
13 MarHappiness is being creative!
28 Feb
Yesterday in Art Club we were using texture paste and sand mixed in with our paint and painting with brushes, sticks, sponges, artist’s knives, card and lastly and most exciting of all, fingers. There is something intrinsically joyful about creating with wild abandon and finding new ways of expressing yourself.
The Secret World of the Artist!
21 Feb
Springing back into creativity after the half term break, the Art Club members are becoming full of intrigue and single minded purpose – just like real artists actually, and all done on the scale of a matchbox.
“Towards Prevote Tower”
10 Feb
“If you’re not prepared to be wrong you’ll never come up with anything original” Sir Ken Robinson, Educationist.
Springs almost here!
3 Feb
I have just finished working on my new painting after three weeks work, to be revealed here soon. Meanwhile here is a taste of an earlier spring, “Petit Bot”, acrylic on paper, Frances.
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Life Drawing!
31 Jan
We had incredible fun yesterday drawing the mannequin and then drawing each other, which was a mixture of trying to stay still as the model and trying to draw quickly as the artist for 1 minute poses
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Dancing Chairs !
24 Jan
<img We had an interesting debate yesterday at the Art Club about how much an artist can leave out of a picture in the interests of 'artistic licence'
The Art Club kicks off!
19 Jan
The artists are off! changing miniscule objects like single cress stems into objects bigger than their total body mass on paper and intently studying sweets before making enormous 3D sculptures out of them. A lot of fun and indirectly learning about all sorts of risk taking exercises and loosening up skills that will translate well into all areas of life, more to follow. Well done you artists!
Ceramic Painting
14 Jan
Using the wonderful Marabu Porcelain paints to create a design and paint a finished piece of artwork good enough to eat your dinner off! why do all the 7 year olds get to have the fun?
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“Cliff path near Prevote tower”
6 Jan
walking is a powerful tool for inspiration, especially in these mirky grey days and looking for colour can be an exercise in itself, as Turner wrote “my job is to draw what I see not what I know”
art workshops and creative parties 