Tag: Drawing
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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…
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Smile Like You Mean It
Portrait Drawing at the National Gallery 2 January 2014 A visit to the National Gallery, with notebook and pencil. A day spent learning from the Masters to improve concentration, the discipline of looking and the nerve of working in a public space. With drawing, there’s no hiding place. (See also ‘Unforgettable’ – notebook drawings of…
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I Like Dirt
Artist in Residence at the Voyager Academy – The Workshops 5/13/20.11.13 An opportunity to work with year 8 and 6th form students as Artist in Residence at The Voyager Academy, Peterborough, with an invitation to lead image making workshops using unconventional materials and concluding by working with students to paint a large ‘cave’ painting. It began…
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Black Night
The Oak and the Reed 20 August 2013 An afternoon visit to the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge and, as has become habit, after walking up the steps and passing through the swivel door main entrance I immediately made for the first floor galleries. My first priority each time I visit is to find a small painting…
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Dirty Fingers
Artist in Residence Workshop at Titchmarsh Primary School 24.6.13 Many dirty fingers but some successful images as a result, from four drawing workshops using charcoal. The day began by working with a Year 3/4 group, followed by Reception, Year 1 and finally Year 2. Each session began with an introduction of mark making exercises and…
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Travelling Without Moving
Titchmarsh Primary ‘Passport’ Mural 25.6 – 2.7.13 On 26th February, while still painting the Fulbridge Entrance Project, I received an email from Josie Milton, Head Teacher of Titchmarsh Primary School, Northants ‘Hi Colin I would be very interested in commissioning you to come and do a mural at our school or even an artist in…
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Wonderful Life
Return to Loch Craignish 26 May – 1 June 2013 Following a gap of 5 years, a long overdue return to Argyll and a peaceful week spent walking, reading, drawing, painting and beachcombing along the shoreline of Loch Craignish, from the marina at Ardfern to the Point looking across to the isles of Lunga, Scarba…
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Rock Island
A Postcard from Crete 10 – 17 April 2013 A first visit, a new landscape to stimulate the senses and much to learn. An invitation to visit Agia Pelagia, near Spili, in the centre of the island. A landscape filled with the clamour of goat bells and the ‘singing’ of crickets and cicadas; the dappled…