Author: Colin Slater – artist
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An End Has A Start
Image making workshops at Newark Hill Primary 19.3.14 Perhaps my last session in the classroom with my year 6 group at NHPS and this week our approach took a different tack, with design playing the central role. I began the workshop by showing a selection of images on my MacBook of the drawings produced during the…
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Flying Colours
Image making workshops at Newark Hill Primary 12.3.14 To bring my charcoal & chalk pastel workshops at NHPS to some sort of conclusion, this morning the group used the whole session to work on the same drawing. An owl in flight was our subject again. There is a good reason why I have repeated this theme…
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Town Called M-Alice
‘A Mad Tea-Party’ at Titchmarsh School– The Workshops 6.3.14 The title doesn’t quite work but I wasn’t going to miss the opportunity of including a song by The Jam on my ‘Blog Title Soundtracks‘ page. At the end of January I was invited to a meeting with Executive Head Josie Milton and Year 3&4 Classteacher…
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Doin’ the Mess Around
Image making workshops at Newark Hill Primary 5.3.14 A two week break since my last visit to NHPS, so the priority with today’s session was to pick up momentum again. Not exactly a ‘Mess Around’ but definitely a constructive one in which invention and investigation played a major part. As with any medium I’d always encourage…
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Start Me Up
The Importance Of Being Nobby ‘If you start me upIf you start me up I’ll never stop, never stop, never, never, ever stop………….‘ Many of my paintings have a hidden story and the memory of producing them is often indelible, which is one reason why I find so much difficulty parting with them. This one…
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A Day in the Life…………
A Day in the Life of a Long-Suffering Sixth Form Art Master As usual on a Wednesday morning, the sixth form equivalents to Augustus John lounge in the Pottery Room chatting about the previous night’s life class. Suddenly through the door bursts the Art Master, complete with lunch pack and vacuum flask, with hair gradually…
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Fly Away
Image making workshops at Newark Hill Primary 12.2.14 Week 3 at NHPS and rather than present more of my own work I showed a selection of images on the screen of my MacBook, examples of charcoal drawings by David Bomberg, Frank Auerbach, Dennis Creffield and Darren Fraser, and chalk pastels by Toulouse-Lautrec, Monet, Degas, Whistler, Munch…
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Freebird
Image making workshops at Newark Hill Primary 5.2.14 My second week at NHPS and the medium used today was chalk pastel however we began by making some observations of the charcoal workshop, reflecting upon the successful and the not so successful aspects of the previous week’s session. Again I brought some of my own work to…
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Fly By Night
Image making workshops at Newark Hill Primary 29.1.14 Following an email from Lorraine Brookes inviting me to work with a group of children from year 6 at Newark Hill Primary School, Peterborough, we met to discuss plans and arranged dates for a series of Wednesday morning workshops which will continue through till the Easter break. Today…
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Time Is Running Out
Big Art Week at Discovery Primary School 18 – 22.6.12 A seriously late post! Primed and prepared, but for some puzzling and unfathomable reason not published, so a belated reference to an Artist in Residence week at the Discovery Primary School in Peterborough following an invitation from Mandy Murphy. It was a very enjoyable experience…