We are a (group) of artists who have a common aim; we want to make art-making more exciting and more accessible to all people in our community.

We want to facilitate art-making by encouraging creativity, whilst also teaching new skills. Art is beneficial and it can be used as a tool for learning and discovery. Our mission is to add to and to expand the variety of art that is available and to raise the standard of the experience of art within formal primary and secondary education, and in the wider community.


Tuesday 26 October 2010

Week 6 - Willow Lanterns

In time for Halloween, the children learnt how to make Lanterns out of tissue paper, pva glue and Willow (oh and lots of masking tape!) In between the layers of tissue paper the lanterns were decorated with leaves and flowers.

Saturday 9 October 2010

Week 5 - Big Painting

BIG Paintings!!! We looked at landscape paintings and talked about their meaning, and different types of landscape paintings -from hills to forests to seascapes and cliffs. We talked about a background, a middle ground and a foreground, and attempted to make the children aware of composition. We looked at adding texture with tissue paper and also with collage and soft pastels to add detail at the end. The final results were stunning!!! Well done to those of you who took part!


















Saturday 2 October 2010

Week 4 - Ceramics

This week we had a guest artist/teacher Helen Muir teaching the children how to hand build. They were shown how to make a simple 4 legged animal, a pinch pot, a toothbrush holder, or a tile. Some children made all 4, whilst others took a long time perfecting every detail. Others had their own strong ideas of what they wanted to make, so they did!