The summer art club is a week long course running 9-3pm looking at different aspects of creativity working with a professional artist in a safe, relaxed, enclosed environment. Because it runs over 5 days we can work on complicated projects and projects that need time to dry.  The children make new friends and work together and at the end of the week they present an exhibition of their work to their family and friends, something that they are always proud to do.

This year there are 3 x week long courses to choose from:

JULY 18TH -22ND: TIME TRAVELLERS

JULY 25TH-29TH: NATURAL WONDERS  (FULL)

AUGUST 8TH – 12TH: TREASURE HUNTERS

We will be looking at drawing, painting, printing, as well as sculpture and other messy activities including paper making, mosaic and book making.   These week long workshops will be very messy so please wear old clothes and be prepared to get your hands dirty! Mon-Fri, 9-3pm  £300 for all week

JULY 18th – 22nd JULY:  TIME TRAVELLERS

“Trust me I’m the Doctor” – We will journeying back in time courtesy of the Time Lord, in his Tardis, which will come in useful for taking home all the precious things we find on our travels.  We will also be making a travel log of our journey to remind us of all the amazing things we discover, from Ancient Egypt, we will be finding out about sacred animals and papyrus scrolls, from Medieval England we will design our own palaces complete with people and animals and design illuminated letters and armoury and at the end of the week we will design and take home our own time capsule.

JULY 25TH – 29TH JULY: NATURAL WONDERS FULL

We will begin by working on large gestural drawings and making a travel journal as a guide to the week.  We then travel to China, looking at Mount Everest and tiny miniature bonsai trees.  From there, we travel to Norway to the Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis) quickly followed by the rain forests of Africa to look at the amazing chameleon and madagasky rainbow frog amongst others.  A quick visit to Hawaii to watch “Mauna Loa” erupting and then a fast return home via the African Sahara.

AUGUST 8 – 12TH:  TREASURE HUNTERS

We begin by looking at famous treasure hunters and how they worked.  We will make a ships log as a journal to record events and make some gold coins.  We then discover the Silk Road and decide to make some paper money, before discovering Tutankhamen’s story of mystery and intrigue.  The gold rush of America follows and we make some precious gems and miniature gold ornaments.  Lastly we discover stories of lost treasure yet to be discovered, such as the Knights Templar and the Amber Room

HALF DAY WORKSHOPS

These workshops give a taster of the bigger projects we can work on in the week long courses. 

Each workshop costs £26.

1/8/22-5/8/22 workshop times 9.30-12.00 (later pick up if required)

Monday 1st August:  Printing: using natural patterns found in geology including geodes, marble, sedimentary rocks to create beautiful pastel designs.

Tuesday 2nd August:  Most bizarre Creature: using collage to create fabulous invented creatures, with reference to Minotaurs, Dinosaurs, Dodos and anything else peculiar, fact or fiction. 

Wednesday 3rd August:  Artist Trading Cards: using paint, pastel, ink, pigments to create miniature art cards to swop or keep as you choose.

Thursday 4th August: Gustav Klimt Tree of Life, using acrylics, watercolours and pastels and anything else you can find to create beautiful 2d and 3d dreamy landscapes.

Friday 5th August: 3D cat sculptures: in the style of artist Laurel Burch, using felt pens, paint, paper and mixed media.

15/8/22-19/8/22 workshop times 9.30-12.00 (later pick up if required)

Monday 15th August: The most amazing Bonsai Tree: using mixed media we will make miniature table top trees (as you’ve never seen before)

Tuesday 16th August:  Illuminated Initial letters: looking at medieval lettering and giving it a contemporary spin (perhaps with gold leaf?)

Wednesday 17th August:  Artist Trading Cards: using paint, pastel, ink, pigments to create miniature art cards to swop or keep as you choose.

Thursday 18th August: Butterflies and Insects: elegant mixed media sculptures that ‘fly’ over paper weights.

Friday 19th August:  Monoprint Mandalas: using a variety of different paints to create a spectacular colourful finish (very messy)

22/8/22 – 26/8/22 workshop times 9.30-12.00 (later pick up if required)

Monday 22nd August: Sacred animals and paint: experimenting with various paint mediums we will be designing Eygyptian sacred animals on a fun bubble painting background.

Tuesday 23rd August: Coat of Arms: using watercolour and other finishes we will design our own family coat of arms.

Wednesday 24th August: Artist Trading Cards: using paint, pastel, ink, pigments to create miniature art cards to swop or keep as you choose.

Thursday 25th August:  Knights Templar: we will design our own Spear of Destiny, Ark of the Covenant and sword engraved on an aluminium sheet, offset with paint and gold dust.

Friday 26th August: The silk Road: looking at this historical trading route, using mixed media to create an elaborate wall hanging.

Below are listed courses from previous years to give you more detail of the amount of work we get through!

SUMMER ART CLUB 2020

Monday 27th July 9-3: WELCOME FROM THE RABBITS AND ME –  Having made our own art badges to introduce ourselves to each other, we will then make art portfolios to keep our art work safe for the week using marbelling paint technique.  Introductions over, we will sketch a visiting rabbit or two in charcoal, pastel and ink.

Tuesday 28th July 9.3: ITS SUNDAY NOT TUESDAY – today our theme is the sun,  firstly making cyanotype prints,  then shadow tracing a fantasy garden full of weird and wonderful objects and lastly looking at huge sunflower paintings…wow hope the sun shines!

Wednesday 29th July: 9-3:  DONKEYS, BUTTERFLIES AND COAT OF ARMS –  we sketch our neighbours (donkeys) using graphite and chalk then design a fantastical 3D paper butterfly garden for our healthy garden.  Lastly thinking about our own coat of arms using batik technique we will create our own flags to display in the garden..

Thursday 30th July: 9-3:  GOOEY THURSDAY –  fingers crossed for no rain as we will be painting up our gorgeous batik flags on the grass and designing and making messy puppets for a fabulous puppet show tomorrow!

Friday 31st July: 9-3: PUPPET SHOW AND EXHIBITION –we will paint and decorate our paper mache puppets, design and finish our puppet theatre and generally finish off any other projects and decorate the studio ready for the grand presentation to family and friends at quarter to 3 this afternoon.

 This schedule will be repeated Aug 10th – August 14th

These workshops are aimed at children from 7 upwards who enjoy being creative and imaginative, to get the most out of the sessions it is advisable to book all 5, cost £300, however you can enrol for individual sessions if so wishing, cost £65.   Preference will be given to students booking all five as some of the projects need two days to finish and there is a continuation from one day to the next.  All sessions are led by Frances, a practising artist in her art studio in St Peters.  There will be a short break mid morning and early afternoon with juice and biscuits provided and a half hour break for lunch so please bring a packed lunch with you.  There will be a relaxation marquee for eating lunch, playing board games and reading if your child wishes to take a rest from all the activities.

Because numbers are limited in each workshop early booking is advisable, please email me directly, lemmon4art@hotmail.co.uk.

3rd August 9.30-12:  RABBIT RABBIT   we will sketch our friendly rabbits using graphite and chalk and make a fantasy shadow drawing (hopefully the sun will be shining)

4th August 9.30-12: SUNFLOWERS using multi media we will create a beautifully framed piece of wall mounted art.

5th August 9.30-12: 3d BUTTERFLY PAPER GARDEN:  designing a healthy garden full of butterflies and foliage using paper in all sorts of ways

6th August 9.30-12: KOINOBORI KITES:  we will design and construct paper carp kites to fly around the garden

7th August 9.30-12: 3D INSECTS:  we want our garden to be healthy and full of insects so lets make some beautiful ones.

These workshops will be repeated 17th August – 21st August

The cost of each workshop is £26 which includes a biscuit and juice half way through the session, option of staying for lunch (please bring your own) with pick up at 1.30pm, £14 extra.

AND LASTLY,  THREE DAYS OF PRINTING

Join me for the three final days of experimentation in my studio.  Looking at printmaking as I have discovered some great techniques and processes

September 1st:  9.30-12: Styrofoam printmaking:  using intaglio method of printmaking using easy to carve sheets and inspiration from the garden.

September 2nd: 9.30-12: Cyanotype printmaking: using the suns rays to develop fascinating results, experimenting with various natural ingredients.

September 3rd: 9.30-12: Monotype printmaking: drawing freehand in paint with various tools and found objects.

Cost of each workshop is £26 which includes refreshment break half way through.

 SUMMER ART CLUB 2019

Monday 29th July: BIG AND SMALL – Finding inspiration from everything around us, we will hunt down plants, animals and fruit shapes to build up a weird and wonderful portfolio of mark making using large pieces of paper, charcoal and chalk, pastels on sticks, feathers with ink, felt pens and magical colour pigments.  Then we will look into using these drawings to build up a story with a hero (whichever animal we drew in the morning) to make into a fold out story to go inside a match box.

Tuesday 30th July: 9-3: POP ART – We spend the morning sketching animals which will improve our quick decisive marks on paper.  These drawings will then be turned into Monotype and Styrofoam prints which will be the starting point to make bright pop art acrylic paintings. 

Wednesday 31st July: 9-3:  MESSY WEDNESDAY – Every week has to have one very messy day and this is it; dress appropriately please! Making gorgeous gooey Gelatine prints of some of the objects we found on Monday and shaving foam Marbelling paper are just two of the fun techniques we will be looking at.

Thursday 1st August: 9-3: MOSAIC – Great opportunity today to try your hand at creating a garden mosaic using small mosaic stones and also hand painting larger ceramic tiles to tell a story that is about the garden; the animals and plants within it.  If you are here all week, the storytelling can be a continuation of your matchbox story.

Friday 2nd August: 9-3: COLLAGE – Having worked hard all week we should now have a huge supply of exciting and beautiful papers, some of the sketches, drawings, prints we made, that can be cut up and things that we have found along the way in the garden – perfect to make into a beautiful collage.

The last afternoon will be spent tidying up and getting our exhibition ready for family and friends to come and admire what we have achieved.

These workshops are aimed at children from 7 upwards who enjoy being creative and imaginative, to get the most out of the sessions it is advisable to book all 5, cost £300, however you can enrol for individual sessions if so wishing, cost £65.  All sessions are led by Frances, a practising artist in her art studio in St Peters.  There will be a short break mid morning and early afternoon with juice and biscuits provided and a half hour break for lunch so please bring packed lunch with you.  There will be a relaxation marquee for eating lunch, playing board games and reading if your child wishes to take a rest from all the activities.

Because numbers are limited in each workshop early booking is advisable, please email me directly, lemmon4art@hotmail.co.uk.

2019

12th August 9.30-12:  MOSAIC:  create a mosaic plant pot and a plate for it to stand on (if you have time) – we will also plant a magical mystery plant seed in the pot to take home.

13th August 9.30-12: BLACKBOARD ART: using chalk pastels we will create a beautifully framed piece of wall mounted art.

14th August 9.30-12: PRINTING: monotype and stryrofoam printing of garden inspired objects.

15th August 9.30-12: MIXED MEDIA ART: using sketches we made of donkeys and inventing a wondrous landscape for them to live in using all sorts of materials.

16th August 9.30-12: POP ART: looking at animals, plants and still life in the garden using bright acrylic paint to make a wall mounted piece of art.

The cost of each workshop is £26 which includes a biscuit and juice half way through the session, option of staying for lunch (please bring your own) with pick up at 1.30pm, £14 extra.