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Week 1 - Drawing, Sculpture, Printing & Poetry
Join Artist Amanda Adam for one week where we will explore craft, drawing, sculpture, and print through the reuse of nature’s materials. We’ll learn about form and structure of natural objects through the sense of touch, texture, sight, and poetry.
With, each child having the opportunity to express themselves creatively and optionally through their own voice.
Covering a variety of art techniques, this will be an exciting, fun week of mystery and exploration through art and language for nature lovers.
Amanda Adam is a Scottish Visual artist living in Fife, she has a Ba (Hons) in Fine Art, an MFA in Art and Humanities, an MFA in Fine Art and holds an RSA New Contemporaries Award, her work is predominantly land based. Specialising in drawing, painting, print-making, textile installation and sculpture.
Monday 10 Oct
Making our own Picture Frames
The children will create picture frames made from branches and string. These can be taken home at the end of the day or if they are returning to the workshops, kept to continue decorating for future artwork.
Tuesday 11 Oct
Creating drawings of mystery objects through sense of touch
The day will start with making abstract drawings from a mystery object, through sense of touch and feeling textures and form with their eyes closed. We will continue to make still life drawings using pencil, chalks and pastels as we look at the objects more closely.
Wednesday 12 Oct
Making sculptures
The children will begin to make sculptural forms based on the objects from the garden using, paper, tape and twine.
We will continue to use our senses of touch and sight to make further continuous line drawings and abstract paintings of our sculptures.
Thursday 13 Oct
A day of Print-Making
Print making is todays theme using exciting sculptural forms to make relief prints and mono prints from sketches or pictures. Considering the colours of the garden and the objects we are working from.
Friday 14 Oct
Sketching, Poetry and Voice
Weather permitting the children will walk through garden, where they make one drawing using pencil or crayon while they think of four words to describe how the garden makes them feel. Indoors the words will be gathered to be turned into a group poem which will be written on to a group frieze for the wall. The poem can be recorded by those who would like to use their voice as art.
This October, we have visiting artists coming in to teach the children. They will deliver a range of activities through the week under their chosen theme and be supported by our children's playworkers.
Week 1: 10-14 Oct - Drawing, Sculpture, Printing & Poetry
Week 2: 17-21 Oct - Paper making, natural dyes, watercolour, printmaking & book/zine making
As usual, children will need to bring their own packed lunch and sunscreen (and sunhat/raincoat if needed).
We hope to get outside into our beautiful grounds to explore as often as possible.
The club is for children aged 5-12 years and will run from 9am – 3.30pm
(drop off from 9am-9.30am, pick up 3.30pm sharp)
The club costs £28 per day. This includes materials, refreshments and snack.
Please select the days that you wish to book, and for how many, then proceed to fill in their details
Please note that we are not a registered childcare provider, and we do not have additional support beyond our Artists and Creative Playworkers.
The club is made up of a series of creative art activity workshops. If your child does not enjoy art, or a busy environment, please look to book them into a more suitable workshop. We want all of our children to get the most from their art club workshops, in a safe and happy environment.
FREE PLACES -
We have 4 free places available each day for families with low income in receipt of Universal Credit. If this would benefit your family, please add this to your basket and proceed to fill in the child's details.
These few places are much needed, so please be considerate when booking so that these can be shared amongst other children too.
*We reserve the right to enquire which benefit you are in receipt of.
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