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
We continued some of the work from the previous session, this time concentrating on stones and pebbles, looking at their shapes and being led by their character to finding different ways to draw them. Cutting and sticking or tearing, we used various papers to make… Read More »Floating stones and flying paper
Sylvia gave us an emergency mission for this after school session – to make a banner for charity fundraising for the work with the young people. So we speedily set to work, all hands on paint pens, and created a simple but catchy composition! The… Read More »NUC Cash for Kids banner!
Oil pastels were ideal to use to draw the textures of stones and wood from our collection of natural objects picked up from beaches, forests and mountains over the years! Looking into the intricate surface textures to find inspiration, we started working from one or… Read More »The world of natural objects – shell, stone and wood
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
We used a few different approaches to draw some studio objects like rollers or palette knives, such as drawing round the object, or drawing holding two pens at once, and some sketching too. Yellow, beige, red, black and green coloured sugar papers with paint pens… Read More »Drawing studio objects – with some funny faces too ?
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
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