Category: Newark Hill School Workshops
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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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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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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…