NUC

At the NUC summer group with children, we worked on a summer environmental theme, exploring painting and using different materials for mark making including brushes, rollers and hand prints. The children also enjoyed painting on to the leaves directly, and had ideas for rainbows, butterflies.… Read More »Playing with paint – leaves, handprints and a joyful T-rex

At the Ruchill after school primary group the children worked on their sketchbooks, drawing mainly with pencils this session. They began looking directly at some small natural objects like shells and a fragile pale green green sea urchin shell. After sketching in peace for a… Read More »Sea urchins and shells turning into skulls and robots!

At Ruchill community centre we worked on the A4 sketchbooks with the children on some imaginative drawings and doodles. It’s really nice to see their engagement with markmaking, and freedom to express themselves through art!

The North United Communities after school group (Primary years 5 to 7) played around with acrylic inks and different brushes and twigs, working from a selection of natural objects like stones and shells. One of the boys was more into drawing a Tolkienesque olephaunt which… Read More »Ruchill children drawing stones, shells, a sea urchin and an olephaunt!

The children at Ruchill Community Centre really wanted to do their own thing at this session – which turned out to be drawing views around them. ‘What can I draw?’ they asked – ‘Have a look around – what do you see?’ – so they… Read More »Drawing the community centre, with some dragons too – children’s spring art group at North United Communities

Some of the older primary school children at the North United Communities group are already filling up their first sketchbook with fabulous creative drawings and crafty shapes! It was great to see them engaging with their books and feeling connected to them, in this session… Read More »After school drawing and developing sketchbooks

This workshop with the after school children of Ruchill was all about helping the young people express themselves through colour and line combinations in ways they maybe had not tried before. Working in their A4 sketchbooks and on single sheets, we didn’t use images to… Read More »Freedom in shapes and pattern at Ruchill

At the Ruchill Community Centre group the young people drew in their sketchbooks and did some crafty cutting and sticking. One simple way for the children to draw the quirky brushes was to draw around them first then work on the shapes inside, this was… Read More »Looking through the other side of the binoculars

At Ruchill NUC after school Primary group we doodled to begin with in the sketchbooks, then had a look at some autumnal leaves gathered outside, mainly sycamore and oak leaves. One of the boys made a rubbing from a leaf using pastel, while other children… Read More »This Is My Brain!